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réveiller
réveiller
French
Verb
réveiller
-  (transitive) To awaken
-  Réveillez les soldats, on nous attaque !
- Awaken the soldiers, we're being attacked.
 
 
 -  Réveillez les soldats, on nous attaque !
 
se réveiller
Related terms
- réveil
 - réveille-matin
 
Conjugation
  Conjugation of réveiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | réveiller | avoir réveillé | |||||
| gerund | en réveillant | en ayant réveillé | |||||
| present participle |  réveillant /ʁe.vɛ.jɑ̃/  | 
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| past participle |  réveillé /ʁe.vɛ.je/  | 
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
|  simple tenses  | 
present |  réveille /ʁe.vɛj/  | 
 réveilles /ʁe.vɛj/  | 
 réveille /ʁe.vɛj/  | 
 réveillons /ʁe.vɛ.jɔ̃/  | 
 réveillez /ʁe.vɛ.je/  | 
 réveillent /ʁe.vɛj/  | 
| imperfect |  réveillais /ʁe.vɛ.jɛ/  | 
 réveillais /ʁe.vɛ.jɛ/  | 
 réveillait /ʁe.vɛ.jɛ/  | 
 réveillions /ʁe.vɛj.jɔ̃/  | 
 réveilliez /ʁe.vɛj.je/  | 
 réveillaient /ʁe.vɛ.jɛ/  | 
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| past historic1 |  réveillai /ʁe.vɛ.je/  | 
réveillas /ʁe.vɛ.ja/  | 
réveilla /ʁe.vɛ.ja/  | 
réveillâmes /ʁe.vɛ.jam/  | 
réveillâtes /ʁe.vɛ.jat/  | 
réveillèrent /ʁe.vɛ.jɛʁ/  | 
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| future |  réveillerai /ʁe.vɛj.ʁe/  | 
 réveilleras /ʁe.vɛj.ʁa/  | 
 réveillera /ʁe.vɛj.ʁa/  | 
 réveillerons /ʁe.vɛj.ʁɔ̃/  | 
 réveillerez /ʁe.vɛj.ʁe/  | 
 réveilleront /ʁe.vɛj.ʁɔ̃/  | 
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| conditional |  réveillerais /ʁe.vɛj.ʁɛ/  | 
 réveillerais /ʁe.vɛj.ʁɛ/  | 
 réveillerait /ʁe.vɛj.ʁɛ/  | 
 réveillerions /ʁe.vɛ.jə.ʁjɔ̃/  | 
 réveilleriez /ʁe.vɛ.jə.ʁje/  | 
 réveilleraient /ʁe.vɛj.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 |  réveille /ʁe.vɛj/  | 
 réveilles /ʁe.vɛj/  | 
 réveille /ʁe.vɛj/  | 
 réveillions /ʁe.vɛj.jɔ̃/  | 
 réveilliez /ʁe.vɛj.je/  | 
 réveillent /ʁe.vɛj/  | 
| imperfect1 | 
réveillasse /ʁe.vɛ.jas/  | 
réveillasses /ʁe.vɛ.jas/  | 
réveillât /ʁe.vɛ.ja/  | 
réveillassions /ʁe.vɛ.ja.sjɔ̃/  | 
réveillassiez /ʁe.vɛ.ja.sje/  | 
réveillassent /ʁe.vɛ.jas/  | 
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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 | – | |
| — |  réveille /ʁe.vɛj/  | 
— |  réveillons /ʁe.vɛ.jɔ̃/  | 
 réveillez /ʁe.vɛ.je/  | 
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