rebiffer
French
Etymology
From Middle French rebiffer, from Old French rebiffer (“to rise up, raise”), of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
Verb
rebiffer
Conjugation
Conjugation of rebiffer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rebiffer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rebiffant /ʁə.bi.fɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rebiffé /ʁə.bi.fe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rebiffe /ʁə.bif/ |
rebiffes /ʁə.bif/ |
rebiffe /ʁə.bif/ |
rebiffons /ʁə.bi.fɔ̃/ |
rebiffez /ʁə.bi.fe/ |
rebiffent /ʁə.bif/ |
| imperfect | rebiffais /ʁə.bi.fɛ/ |
rebiffais /ʁə.bi.fɛ/ |
rebiffait /ʁə.bi.fɛ/ |
rebiffions /ʁə.bi.fjɔ̃/ |
rebiffiez /ʁə.bi.fje/ |
rebiffaient /ʁə.bi.fɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rebiffai /ʁə.bi.fe/ |
rebiffas /ʁə.bi.fa/ |
rebiffa /ʁə.bi.fa/ |
rebiffâmes /ʁə.bi.fam/ |
rebiffâtes /ʁə.bi.fat/ |
rebiffèrent /ʁə.bi.fɛʁ/ | |
| future | rebifferai /ʁə.bi.fʁe/ |
rebifferas /ʁə.bi.fʁa/ |
rebiffera /ʁə.bi.fʁa/ |
rebifferons /ʁə.bi.fʁɔ̃/ |
rebifferez /ʁə.bi.fʁe/ |
rebifferont /ʁə.bi.fʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rebifferais /ʁə.bi.fʁɛ/ |
rebifferais /ʁə.bi.fʁɛ/ |
rebifferait /ʁə.bi.fʁɛ/ |
rebifferions /ʁə.bi.fə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rebifferiez /ʁə.bi.fə.ʁje/ |
rebifferaient /ʁə.bi.fʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | rebiffe /ʁə.bif/ |
rebiffes /ʁə.bif/ |
rebiffe /ʁə.bif/ |
rebiffions /ʁə.bi.fjɔ̃/ |
rebiffiez /ʁə.bi.fje/ |
rebiffent /ʁə.bif/ |
| imperfect2 | rebiffasse /ʁə.bi.fas/ |
rebiffasses /ʁə.bi.fas/ |
rebiffât /ʁə.bi.fa/ |
rebiffassions /ʁə.bi.fa.sjɔ̃/ |
rebiffassiez /ʁə.bi.fa.sje/ |
rebiffassent /ʁə.bi.fas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rebiffe /ʁə.bif/ |
— | rebiffons /ʁə.bi.fɔ̃/ |
rebiffez /ʁə.bi.fe/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “rebiffer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.