redoubler
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.du.ble/
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Verb
redoubler
- (ambitransitive) to increase; to augment; to redouble
- redoubler d'ardeur ― to redouble one's efforts
- (ambitransitive) to repeat a year
Conjugation
Conjugation of redoubler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | redoubler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | redoublant /ʁə.du.blɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | redoublé /ʁə.du.ble/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | redouble /ʁə.dubl/ |
redoubles /ʁə.dubl/ |
redouble /ʁə.dubl/ |
redoublons /ʁə.du.blɔ̃/ |
redoublez /ʁə.du.ble/ |
redoublent /ʁə.dubl/ |
| imperfect | redoublais /ʁə.du.blɛ/ |
redoublais /ʁə.du.blɛ/ |
redoublait /ʁə.du.blɛ/ |
redoublions /ʁə.du.bli.jɔ̃/ |
redoubliez /ʁə.du.bli.je/ |
redoublaient /ʁə.du.blɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | redoublai /ʁə.du.ble/ |
redoublas /ʁə.du.bla/ |
redoubla /ʁə.du.bla/ |
redoublâmes /ʁə.du.blam/ |
redoublâtes /ʁə.du.blat/ |
redoublèrent /ʁə.du.blɛʁ/ | |
| future | redoublerai /ʁə.du.blə.ʁe/ |
redoubleras /ʁə.du.blə.ʁa/ |
redoublera /ʁə.du.blə.ʁa/ |
redoublerons /ʁə.du.blə.ʁɔ̃/ |
redoublerez /ʁə.du.blə.ʁe/ |
redoubleront /ʁə.du.blə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | redoublerais /ʁə.du.blə.ʁɛ/ |
redoublerais /ʁə.du.blə.ʁɛ/ |
redoublerait /ʁə.du.blə.ʁɛ/ |
redoublerions /ʁə.du.blə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
redoubleriez /ʁə.du.blə.ʁje/ |
redoubleraient /ʁə.du.blə.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 | redouble /ʁə.dubl/ |
redoubles /ʁə.dubl/ |
redouble /ʁə.dubl/ |
redoublions /ʁə.du.bli.jɔ̃/ |
redoubliez /ʁə.du.bli.je/ |
redoublent /ʁə.dubl/ |
| imperfect2 | redoublasse /ʁə.du.blas/ |
redoublasses /ʁə.du.blas/ |
redoublât /ʁə.du.bla/ |
redoublassions /ʁə.du.bla.sjɔ̃/ |
redoublassiez /ʁə.du.bla.sje/ |
redoublassent /ʁə.du.blas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | redouble /ʁə.dubl/ |
— | redoublons /ʁə.du.blɔ̃/ |
redoublez /ʁə.du.ble/ |
— | |
| 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
- “redoubler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.