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repentir
repentir
French
Noun
repentir m (plural repentirs)
Verb
repentir
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, always se repentir) to repent
Conjugation
This is one of a fairly large group of irregular -ir verbs that are all conjugated the same way. Other members of this group include sortir and dormir. The most significant difference between these verbs' conjugation and that of the regular -ir verbs is that these verbs' conjugation does not use the infix -iss-. Further, this conjugation has the forms (je, tu) repens and (il) repent in the present indicative and imperative, whereas a regular -ir verb would have *repentis and *repentit (as in the past historic).
Conjugation of repentir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | repentir | avoir repenti | |||||
| gerund | en repentant | en ayant repenti | |||||
| present participle | repentant /ʁə.pɑ̃.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | repenti /ʁə.pɑ̃.ti/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | repens /ʁə.pɑ̃/ |
repens /ʁə.pɑ̃/ |
repent /ʁə.pɑ̃/ |
repentons /ʁə.pɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
repentez /ʁə.pɑ̃.te/ |
repentent /ʁə.pɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect | repentais /ʁə.pɑ̃.tɛ/ |
repentais /ʁə.pɑ̃.tɛ/ |
repentait /ʁə.pɑ̃.tɛ/ |
repentions /ʁə.pɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
repentiez /ʁə.pɑ̃.tje/ |
repentaient /ʁə.pɑ̃.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | repentis /ʁə.pɑ̃.ti/ |
repentis /ʁə.pɑ̃.ti/ |
repentit /ʁə.pɑ̃.ti/ |
repentîmes /ʁə.pɑ̃.tim/ |
repentîtes /ʁə.pɑ̃.tit/ |
repentirent /ʁə.pɑ̃.tiʁ/ |
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| future | repentirai /ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.ʁe/ |
repentiras /ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.ʁa/ |
repentira /ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.ʁa/ |
repentirons /ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
repentirez /ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.ʁe/ |
repentiront /ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | repentirais /ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
repentirais /ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
repentirait /ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
repentirions /ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
repentiriez /ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.ʁje/ |
repentiraient /ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
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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 | repente /ʁə.pɑ̃t/ |
repentes /ʁə.pɑ̃t/ |
repente /ʁə.pɑ̃t/ |
repentions /ʁə.pɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
repentiez /ʁə.pɑ̃.tje/ |
repentent /ʁə.pɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect1 |
repentisse /ʁə.pɑ̃.tis/ |
repentisses /ʁə.pɑ̃.tis/ |
repentît /ʁə.pɑ̃.ti/ |
repentissions /ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
repentissiez /ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.sje/ |
repentissent /ʁə.pɑ̃.tis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | repens /ʁə.pɑ̃/ |
— | repentons /ʁə.pɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
repentez /ʁə.pɑ̃.te/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
- In the passé composé the past participle should agree with the subject in gender and number: "Et je lui ai donné du temps, afin qu'elle se repentît de sa prostitution; mais elle ne s'est point repentie." (Revelation 2:21, Martin translation)