revancher
French
Etymology
From Old French revenchier (from re- + vengier (“to avenge, to take revenge (upon)”, from Latin vindicō)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃe/
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Verb
revancher
Conjugation
Conjugation of revancher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | revancher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | revanchant /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | revanché /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | revanche /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ/ |
revanches /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ/ |
revanche /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ/ |
revanchons /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/ |
revanchez /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃe/ |
revanchent /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ/ |
| imperfect | revanchais /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃɛ/ |
revanchais /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃɛ/ |
revanchait /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃɛ/ |
revanchions /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/ |
revanchiez /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃje/ |
revanchaient /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | revanchai /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃe/ |
revanchas /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃa/ |
revancha /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃa/ |
revanchâmes /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃam/ |
revanchâtes /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃat/ |
revanchèrent /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | revancherai /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/ |
revancheras /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/ |
revanchera /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/ |
revancherons /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
revancherez /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/ |
revancheront /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | revancherais /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/ |
revancherais /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/ |
revancherait /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/ |
revancherions /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
revancheriez /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃə.ʁje/ |
revancheraient /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | revanche /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ/ |
revanches /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ/ |
revanche /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ/ |
revanchions /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/ |
revanchiez /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃje/ |
revanchent /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | revanchasse /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃas/ |
revanchasses /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃas/ |
revanchât /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃa/ |
revanchassions /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
revanchassiez /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃa.sje/ |
revanchassent /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | revanche /ʁə.vɑ̃ʃ/ |
— | revanchons /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/ |
revanchez /ʁə.vɑ̃.ʃe/ |
— | |
| 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
Descendants
- German: revanchieren
Further reading
- “revancher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.