reprendre
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Etymology
Inherited from Old Catalan reprendre, from Latin reprendere, from earlier reprehendere. By surface analysis, re- + prendre.
Pronunciation
Verb
reprendre (first-person singular present reprenc, first-person singular preterite reprenguí, past participle reprès); root stress: (Central) /ɛ/; (Valencia) /e/; (Balearic) /ə/
Conjugation
Related terms
- prendre
- reprensible
- reprensió
- reprensiu
References
- “reprendre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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Etymology
Inherited from Old French reprendre, from Latin reprendere, contracted variant of reprehendere.
Pronunciation
Verb
reprendre
- (transitive) to take back, recover, regain
- (transitive) to take again, take more of, have another helping
- (transitive) to resume (work), get back to, carry on with
- Après la pause, on va reprendre le travail. ― After the break, we're going to get back to work.
- Je lui ai dit que j’aimerais reprendre un de mes vieux passe-temps, soit jouer du piano, soit apprendre une langue.
- I told him I'd like to get back to one of my old hobbies, either playing piano or learning a language.
- (transitive) to retake, recapture
- (intransitive) to start again
- reprendre à zéro ― to start from scratch
- (intransitive, of business) to pick up, to show new sign of life
- (transitive) to criticize, correct, rebuke, reprimand
- (reflexive) to correct oneself
- (reflexive) to pull oneself together
- (transitive) to cover, to perform or record a cover version (of a song by another musical artist)
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated on the model of prendre. That means it is quite irregular, with the following patterns:
- In the infinitive, in the singular forms of the present indicative, and in the future and the conditional, it is conjugated like rendre, perdre, etc. (sometimes called the regular -re verbs).
- In the plural forms of the present indicative and imperative, in the imperfect indicative, in the present subjunctive, and in the present participle, it is conjugated like appeler or jeter, using the stem reprenn- before mute 'e' and the stem repren- elsewhere.
- In the past participle, and in the past historic and the imperfect subjunctive, its conjugation resembles that of mettre.
| infinitive | simple | reprendre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | reprenant /ʁə.pʁə.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | repris /ʁə.pʁi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | reprends /ʁə.pʁɑ̃/ |
reprends /ʁə.pʁɑ̃/ |
reprend /ʁə.pʁɑ̃/ |
reprenons /ʁə.pʁə.nɔ̃/ |
reprenez /ʁə.pʁə.ne/ |
reprennent /ʁə.pʁɛn/ |
| imperfect | reprenais /ʁə.pʁə.nɛ/ |
reprenais /ʁə.pʁə.nɛ/ |
reprenait /ʁə.pʁə.nɛ/ |
reprenions /ʁə.pʁə.njɔ̃/ |
repreniez /ʁə.pʁə.nje/ |
reprenaient /ʁə.pʁə.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | repris /ʁə.pʁi/ |
repris /ʁə.pʁi/ |
reprit /ʁə.pʁi/ |
reprîmes /ʁə.pʁim/ |
reprîtes /ʁə.pʁit/ |
reprirent /ʁə.pʁiʁ/ | |
| future | reprendrai /ʁə.pʁɑ̃.dʁe/ |
reprendras /ʁə.pʁɑ̃.dʁa/ |
reprendra /ʁə.pʁɑ̃.dʁa/ |
reprendrons /ʁə.pʁɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ |
reprendrez /ʁə.pʁɑ̃.dʁe/ |
reprendront /ʁə.pʁɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | reprendrais /ʁə.pʁɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
reprendrais /ʁə.pʁɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
reprendrait /ʁə.pʁɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
reprendrions /ʁə.pʁɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/ |
reprendriez /ʁə.pʁɑ̃.dʁi.je/ |
reprendraient /ʁə.pʁɑ̃.dʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | reprenne /ʁə.pʁɛn/ |
reprennes /ʁə.pʁɛn/ |
reprenne /ʁə.pʁɛn/ |
reprenions /ʁə.pʁə.njɔ̃/ |
repreniez /ʁə.pʁə.nje/ |
reprennent /ʁə.pʁɛn/ |
| imperfect2 | reprisse /ʁə.pʁis/ |
reprisses /ʁə.pʁis/ |
reprît /ʁə.pʁi/ |
reprissions /ʁə.pʁi.sjɔ̃/ |
reprissiez /ʁə.pʁi.sje/ |
reprissent /ʁə.pʁis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | reprends /ʁə.pʁɑ̃/ |
— | reprenons /ʁə.pʁə.nɔ̃/ |
reprenez /ʁə.pʁə.ne/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Conjugation of reprendre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “reprendre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Etymology
From Latin reprēndere, from older reprehendere. By surface analysis, re- + prendre.
Verb
reprendre
- to retake (to take back; to take again)
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | reprendre | avoir pris | |||||
| gerund | en prenant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
| present participle | prenant | ||||||
| past participle | pris | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | preing, pren | prenz | prent | prenons | prenez | prenent |
| imperfect | prenoie, preneie | prenoies, preneies | prenoit, preneit | preniiens, preniens | preniiez, preniez | prenoient, preneient | |
| preterite | pris | preṣis | prist | preṣimes | preṣistes | prisdrent | |
| future | prendrai | prendras | prendra | prendrons | prendroiz, prendreiz, prendrez | prendront | |
| conditional | prendroie, prendreie | prendroies, prendreies | prendroit, prendreit | prendriiens, prendriens | prendriiez, prendriez | prendroient, prendreient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses |
present | preigne | preignes | preigne | prenons, preigniens, preignons | prenez, preigniez | preignent |
| imperfect | preṣisse | preṣisses | preṣist | preṣissons, preṣissiens | preṣissoiz, preṣissez, preṣissiez | preṣissent | |
| compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | pren | — | prenons | prenez | — | ||
Related terms
Descendants
- French: reprendre
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