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Definition 2024
redevoir
redevoir
French
Verb
redevoir
- to owe again
- Vous me redevez cinq euros - you owe me five euros again
- (rare or obsolete) to have to again
Usage notes
- It's more usual in contemporary French to use devoir with re- in front of the verb, or use à nouveau or de nouveau.
- The nonstandard past participle redû is sometimes found, formed by analogy with the past participle dû of devoir (whose circumflex is present solely to distinguish the word from du).
Conjugation
Conjugation of redevoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | redevoir | avoir redu | |||||
| gerund | en redevant | en ayant redu | |||||
| present participle | redevant /ʁə.d(ə).vɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | redu /ʁə.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 | redois /ʁə.dwa/ |
redois /ʁə.dwa/ |
redoit /ʁə.dwa/ |
redevons /ʁə.d(ə).vɔ̃/ |
redevez /ʁə.d(ə).ve/ |
redoivent /ʁə.dwav/ |
| imperfect | redevais /ʁə.d(ə).vɛ/ |
redevais /ʁə.d(ə).vɛ/ |
redevait /ʁə.d(ə).vɛ/ |
redevions /ʁə.də.vjɔ̃/ |
redeviez /ʁə.də.vje/ |
redevaient /ʁə.d(ə).vɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | redus /ʁə.dy/ |
redus /ʁə.dy/ |
redut /ʁə.dy/ |
redûmes /ʁə.dym/ |
redûtes /ʁə.dyt/ |
redurent /ʁə.dyʁ/ |
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| future | redevrai /ʁə.də.vʁe/ |
redevras /ʁə.də.vʁa/ |
redevra /ʁə.də.vʁa/ |
redevrons /ʁə.də.vʁɔ̃/ |
redevrez /ʁə.də.vʁe/ |
redevront /ʁə.də.vʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | redevrais /ʁə.də.vʁɛ/ |
redevrais /ʁə.də.vʁɛ/ |
redevrait /ʁə.də.vʁɛ/ |
redevrions /ʁə.də.vʁi.jɔ̃/ |
redevriez /ʁə.də.vʁi.je/ |
redevraient /ʁə.də.vʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | redoive /ʁə.dwav/ |
redoives /ʁə.dwav/ |
redoive /ʁə.dwav/ |
redevions /ʁə.də.vjɔ̃/ |
redeviez /ʁə.də.vje/ |
redoivent /ʁə.dwav/ |
| imperfect1 |
redusse /ʁə.dys/ |
redusses /ʁə.dys/ |
redût /ʁə.dy/ |
redussions /ʁə.dy.sjɔ̃/ |
redussiez /ʁə.dy.sje/ |
redussent /ʁə.dys/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | redois /ʁə.dwa/ |
— | redevons /ʁə.d(ə).vɔ̃/ |
redevez /ʁə.d(ə).ve/ |
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