répéter
French
Etymology
From Old French repeter, borrowed from Latin repeto, repetere. Cf. also the Old French form repeir.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁe.pe.te/
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Verb
répéter
- to repeat
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to repeat oneself
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’), with the latter being used before mute ‘e’. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written répéter-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written répèter-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | répéter | avoir répété | |||||
| gerund | en répétant | en ayant répété | |||||
| present participle | répétant /ʁe.pe.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | répété /ʁe.pe.te/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | répète /ʁe.pɛt/ |
répètes /ʁe.pɛt/ |
répète /ʁe.pɛt/ |
répétons /ʁe.pe.tɔ̃/ |
répétez /ʁe.pe.te/ |
répètent /ʁe.pɛt/ |
| imperfect | répétais /ʁe.pe.tɛ/ |
répétais /ʁe.pe.tɛ/ |
répétait /ʁe.pe.tɛ/ |
répétions /ʁe.pe.tjɔ̃/ |
répétiez /ʁe.pe.tje/ |
répétaient /ʁe.pe.tɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | répétai /ʁe.pe.te/ |
répétas /ʁe.pe.ta/ |
répéta /ʁe.pe.ta/ |
répétâmes /ʁe.pe.tam/ |
répétâtes /ʁe.pe.tat/ |
répétèrent /ʁe.pe.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | répèterai or répéterai /ʁe.pɛ.tʁe/ |
répèteras or répéteras /ʁe.pɛ.tʁa/ |
répètera or répétera /ʁe.pɛ.tʁa/ |
répèterons or répéterons /ʁe.pɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
répèterez or répéterez /ʁe.pɛ.tʁe/ |
répèteront or répéteront /ʁe.pɛ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | répèterais or répéterais /ʁe.pɛ.tʁɛ/ |
répèterais or répéterais /ʁe.pɛ.tʁɛ/ |
répèterait or répéterait /ʁe.pɛ.tʁɛ/ |
répèterions or répéterions /ʁe.pɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
répèteriez or répéteriez /ʁe.pɛ.tə.ʁje/ |
répèteraient or répéteraient /ʁe.pɛ.tʁɛ/ | |
| 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 | répète /ʁe.pɛt/ |
répètes /ʁe.pɛt/ |
répète /ʁe.pɛt/ |
répétions /ʁe.pe.tjɔ̃/ |
répétiez /ʁe.pe.tje/ |
répètent /ʁe.pɛt/ |
| imperfect1 | répétasse /ʁe.pe.tas/ |
répétasses /ʁe.pe.tas/ |
répétât /ʁe.pe.ta/ |
répétassions /ʁe.pe.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
répétassiez /ʁe.pe.ta.sje/ |
répétassent /ʁe.pe.tas/ | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | répète /ʁe.pɛt/ |
— | répétons /ʁe.pe.tɔ̃/ |
répétez /ʁe.pe.te/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “répéter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).