rejeter
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.ʒ(ə).te/
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Verb
rejeter
- to throw back (a fish, etc.)
- to discharge, spew out
- to reject (an appeal, a lover etc.); to refute (an accusation)
- to position, place
- (reflexive) to jump back, throw oneself back
Conjugation
With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.
Conjugation of rejeter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rejeter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rejetant /ʁə.ʒ(ə).tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rejeté /ʁə.ʒ(ə).te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rejette /ʁə.ʒɛt/ |
rejettes /ʁə.ʒɛt/ |
rejette /ʁə.ʒɛt/ |
rejetons /ʁə.ʒ(ə).tɔ̃/ |
rejetez /ʁə.ʒ(ə).te/ |
rejettent /ʁə.ʒɛt/ |
| imperfect | rejetais /ʁə.ʒ(ə).tɛ/ |
rejetais /ʁə.ʒ(ə).tɛ/ |
rejetait /ʁə.ʒ(ə).tɛ/ |
rejetions /ʁə.ʒə.tjɔ̃/ |
rejetiez /ʁə.ʒə.tje/ |
rejetaient /ʁə.ʒ(ə).tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rejetai /ʁə.ʒ(ə).te/ |
rejetas /ʁə.ʒ(ə).ta/ |
rejeta /ʁə.ʒ(ə).ta/ |
rejetâmes /ʁə.ʒ(ə).tam/ |
rejetâtes /ʁə.ʒ(ə).tat/ |
rejetèrent /ʁə.ʒ(ə).tɛʁ/ | |
| future | rejetterai /ʁə.ʒɛ.tʁe/ or /ʁə.ʒe.tʁe/ |
rejetteras /ʁə.ʒɛ.tʁa/ or /ʁə.ʒe.tʁa/ |
rejettera /ʁə.ʒɛ.tʁa/ or /ʁə.ʒe.tʁa/ |
rejetterons /ʁə.ʒɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.ʒe.tʁɔ̃/ |
rejetterez /ʁə.ʒɛ.tʁe/ or /ʁə.ʒe.tʁe/ |
rejetteront /ʁə.ʒɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.ʒe.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rejetterais /ʁə.ʒɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.ʒe.tʁɛ/ |
rejetterais /ʁə.ʒɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.ʒe.tʁɛ/ |
rejetterait /ʁə.ʒɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.ʒe.tʁɛ/ |
rejetterions /ʁə.ʒɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.ʒe.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rejetteriez /ʁə.ʒɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /ʁə.ʒe.tə.ʁje/ |
rejetteraient /ʁə.ʒɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.ʒe.tʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rejette /ʁə.ʒɛt/ |
rejettes /ʁə.ʒɛt/ |
rejette /ʁə.ʒɛt/ |
rejetions /ʁə.ʒə.tjɔ̃/ |
rejetiez /ʁə.ʒə.tje/ |
rejettent /ʁə.ʒɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | rejetasse /ʁə.ʒ(ə).tas/ |
rejetasses /ʁə.ʒ(ə).tas/ |
rejetât /ʁə.ʒ(ə).ta/ |
rejetassions /ʁə.ʒ(ə).ta.sjɔ̃/ |
rejetassiez /ʁə.ʒ(ə).ta.sje/ |
rejetassent /ʁə.ʒ(ə).tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rejette /ʁə.ʒɛt/ |
— | rejetons /ʁə.ʒ(ə).tɔ̃/ |
rejetez /ʁə.ʒ(ə).te/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “rejeter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.