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retentir
retentir
French
Verb
retentir
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of retentir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | retentir | avoir retenti | |||||
| gerund | en retentissant | en ayant retenti | |||||
| present participle | retentissant /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | retenti /ʁə.tɑ̃.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 | retentis /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti/ |
retentis /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti/ |
retentit /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti/ |
retentissons /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sɔ̃/ |
retentissez /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.se/ |
retentissent /ʁə.tɑ̃.tis/ |
| imperfect | retentissais /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
retentissais /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
retentissait /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
retentissions /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
retentissiez /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sje/ |
retentissaient /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | retentis /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti/ |
retentis /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti/ |
retentit /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti/ |
retentîmes /ʁə.tɑ̃.tim/ |
retentîtes /ʁə.tɑ̃.tit/ |
retentirent /ʁə.tɑ̃.tiʁ/ |
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| future | retentirai /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.ʁe/ |
retentiras /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.ʁa/ |
retentira /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.ʁa/ |
retentirons /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
retentirez /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.ʁe/ |
retentiront /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | retentirais /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
retentirais /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
retentirait /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/ |
retentirions /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
retentiriez /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.ʁje/ |
retentiraient /ʁə.tɑ̃.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 | retentisse /ʁə.tɑ̃.tis/ |
retentisses /ʁə.tɑ̃.tis/ |
retentisse /ʁə.tɑ̃.tis/ |
retentissions /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
retentissiez /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sje/ |
retentissent /ʁə.tɑ̃.tis/ |
| imperfect1 |
retentisse /ʁə.tɑ̃.tis/ |
retentisses /ʁə.tɑ̃.tis/ |
retentît /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti/ |
retentissions /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
retentissiez /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sje/ |
retentissent /ʁə.tɑ̃.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 | – | |
| — | retentis /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti/ |
— | retentissons /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.sɔ̃/ |
retentissez /ʁə.tɑ̃.ti.se/ |
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