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redescendre
redescendre
French
Verb
redescendre
- to come back down, to go back down (to descend shortly after having gone up)
- to redescend (to descend a second time)
Usage notes
- This verb uses the auxiliary verb avoir when used transitively (or with a transitive sense, even when the complement is omitted); otherwise (when it is intransitive), it uses être.
- il est redescendu du sommet ― he came back down from the summit
- elle a redescendu l'ordinateur ― she got the computer back down
Conjugation
Conjugation of redescendre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | redescendre | être redescendu | |||||
| gerund | en redescendant | en étant redescendu | |||||
| present participle | redescendant /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | redescendu /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dy/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | redescends /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃/ |
redescends /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃/ |
redescend /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃/ |
redescendons /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dɔ̃/ |
redescendez /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.de/ |
redescendent /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃d/ |
| imperfect | redescendais /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dɛ/ |
redescendais /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dɛ/ |
redescendait /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dɛ/ |
redescendions /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.djɔ̃/ |
redescendiez /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dje/ |
redescendaient /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | redescendis /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.di/ |
redescendis /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.di/ |
redescendit /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.di/ |
redescendîmes /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dim/ |
redescendîtes /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dit/ |
redescendirent /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.diʁ/ |
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| future | redescendrai /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dʁe/ |
redescendras /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dʁa/ |
redescendra /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dʁa/ |
redescendrons /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ |
redescendrez /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dʁe/ |
redescendront /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | redescendrais /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
redescendrais /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
redescendrait /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
redescendrions /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/ |
redescendriez /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dʁi.je/ |
redescendraient /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of être followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | redescende /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃d/ |
redescendes /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃d/ |
redescende /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃d/ |
redescendions /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.djɔ̃/ |
redescendiez /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dje/ |
redescendent /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃d/ |
| imperfect1 |
redescendisse /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dis/ |
redescendisses /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dis/ |
redescendît /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.di/ |
redescendissions /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ |
redescendissiez /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.di.sje/ |
redescendissent /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dis/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of être followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | redescends /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃/ |
— | redescendons /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.dɔ̃/ |
redescendez /ʁə.dɛ.sɑ̃.de/ |
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