rendormir
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
rendormir
- (pronominal) to fall asleep again, to fall back to sleep, to go back to sleep
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) rendors and (il) rendort in the present indicative and imperative, whereas a regular -ir verb would have *rendormis and *rendormit (as in the past historic).
Conjugation of rendormir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rendormir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rendormant /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rendormi /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rendors /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ/ |
rendors /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ/ |
rendort /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ/ |
rendormons /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɔ̃/ |
rendormez /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.me/ |
rendorment /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁm/ |
| imperfect | rendormais /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɛ/ |
rendormais /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɛ/ |
rendormait /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɛ/ |
rendormions /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mjɔ̃/ |
rendormiez /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mje/ |
rendormaient /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rendormis /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi/ |
rendormis /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi/ |
rendormit /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi/ |
rendormîmes /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mim/ |
rendormîtes /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mit/ |
rendormirent /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.miʁ/ | |
| future | rendormirai /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁe/ |
rendormiras /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁa/ |
rendormira /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁa/ |
rendormirons /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁɔ̃/ |
rendormirez /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁe/ |
rendormiront /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rendormirais /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁɛ/ |
rendormirais /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁɛ/ |
rendormirait /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁɛ/ |
rendormirions /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rendormiriez /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁje/ |
rendormiraient /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | rendorme /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁm/ |
rendormes /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁm/ |
rendorme /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁm/ |
rendormions /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mjɔ̃/ |
rendormiez /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mje/ |
rendorment /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁm/ |
| imperfect2 | rendormisse /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mis/ |
rendormisses /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mis/ |
rendormît /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi/ |
rendormissions /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.sjɔ̃/ |
rendormissiez /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.sje/ |
rendormissent /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rendors /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ/ |
— | rendormons /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɔ̃/ |
rendormez /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.me/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “rendormir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012