repentir

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *repoenitere, from Latin paenitēre, present active infinitive of paeniteō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁə.pɑ̃.tiʁ/
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Noun

repentir m (plural repentirs)

  1. repentance

Verb

repentir

  1. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to repent

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) repens and (il) repent in the present indicative and imperative, whereas a regular -ir verb would have *repentis and *repentit (as in the past historic).

  Conjugation of repentir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive repentir avoir repenti
gerund en repentant en ayant repenti
present participle repentant
/ʁə.pɑ̃.tɑ̃/
past participle repenti
/ʁə.pɑ̃.ti/
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il nous vous ils
simple
tenses		 present repens
/ʁə.pɑ̃/		 repens
/ʁə.pɑ̃/		 repent
/ʁə.pɑ̃/		 repentons
/ʁə.pɑ̃.tɔ̃/		 repentez
/ʁə.pɑ̃.te/		 repentent
/ʁə.pɑ̃t/
imperfect repentais
/ʁə.pɑ̃.tɛ/		 repentais
/ʁə.pɑ̃.tɛ/		 repentait
/ʁə.pɑ̃.tɛ/		 repentions
/ʁə.pɑ̃.tjɔ̃/		 repentiez
/ʁə.pɑ̃.tje/		 repentaient
/ʁə.pɑ̃.tɛ/
past historic1 repentis
/ʁə.pɑ̃.ti/		 repentis
/ʁə.pɑ̃.ti/		 repentit
/ʁə.pɑ̃.ti/		 repentîmes
/ʁə.pɑ̃.tim/		 repentîtes
/ʁə.pɑ̃.tit/		 repentirent
/ʁə.pɑ̃.tiʁ/
future repentirai
/ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.ʁe/		 repentiras
/ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.ʁa/		 repentira
/ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.ʁa/		 repentirons
/ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/		 repentirez
/ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.ʁe/		 repentiront
/ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.ʁɔ̃/
conditional repentirais
/ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/		 repentirais
/ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/		 repentirait
/ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/		 repentirions
/ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.ʁjɔ̃/		 repentiriez
/ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.ʁje/		 repentiraient
/ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.ʁɛ/
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 repente
/ʁə.pɑ̃t/		 repentes
/ʁə.pɑ̃t/		 repente
/ʁə.pɑ̃t/		 repentions
/ʁə.pɑ̃.tjɔ̃/		 repentiez
/ʁə.pɑ̃.tje/		 repentent
/ʁə.pɑ̃t/
imperfect1 repentisse
/ʁə.pɑ̃.tis/		 repentisses
/ʁə.pɑ̃.tis/		 repentît
/ʁə.pɑ̃.ti/		 repentissions
/ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.sjɔ̃/		 repentissiez
/ʁə.pɑ̃.ti.sje/		 repentissent
/ʁə.pɑ̃.tis/
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 –
— repens
/ʁə.pɑ̃/		 — repentons
/ʁə.pɑ̃.tɔ̃/		 repentez
/ʁə.pɑ̃.te/		 —
1literary tenses
  • In the passé composé the past participle should agree with the subject in gender and number: "Et je lui ai donné du temps, afin qu'elle se repentît de sa prostitution; mais elle ne s'est point repentie." (Revelation 2:21, Martin translation)

Further reading

Anagrams

Middle French

Verb

repentir

  1. to repent

Old French

Verb

repentir

  1. to repent

Descendants

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