retrouver
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.tʁu.ve/
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Verb
retrouver
- (transitive) to find (again); to rediscover
- Ils ont retrouvé le trésor qu'ils avaient enterré.
- They re-found the treasure they had buried.
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- (transitive) to remember; to recall
- Je ne retrouve plus son nom.
- I no longer remember his name.
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- (transitive) to meet; to meet up; to bump into
- J'ai retrouvé mon ancien ami au bord du lac.
- I met up with my old friend by the lake.
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- (transitive) to go back to, to return to
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to find oneself; to end up
- Si tu continues à être aussi désagréable, tu vas te retrouver tout seul.
- If you keep being so unpleasant, you're going to end up alone.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of retrouver (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | retrouver | avoir retrouvé | |||||
| gerund | en retrouvant | en ayant retrouvé | |||||
| present participle | retrouvant /ʁə.tʁu.vɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | retrouvé /ʁə.tʁu.ve/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | retrouve /ʁə.tʁuv/ |
retrouves /ʁə.tʁuv/ |
retrouve /ʁə.tʁuv/ |
retrouvons /ʁə.tʁu.vɔ̃/ |
retrouvez /ʁə.tʁu.ve/ |
retrouvent /ʁə.tʁuv/ |
| imperfect | retrouvais /ʁə.tʁu.vɛ/ |
retrouvais /ʁə.tʁu.vɛ/ |
retrouvait /ʁə.tʁu.vɛ/ |
retrouvions /ʁə.tʁu.vjɔ̃/ |
retrouviez /ʁə.tʁu.vje/ |
retrouvaient /ʁə.tʁu.vɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | retrouvai /ʁə.tʁu.ve/ |
retrouvas /ʁə.tʁu.va/ |
retrouva /ʁə.tʁu.va/ |
retrouvâmes /ʁə.tʁu.vam/ |
retrouvâtes /ʁə.tʁu.vat/ |
retrouvèrent /ʁə.tʁu.vɛʁ/ | |
| future | retrouverai /ʁə.tʁu.vʁe/ |
retrouveras /ʁə.tʁu.vʁa/ |
retrouvera /ʁə.tʁu.vʁa/ |
retrouverons /ʁə.tʁu.vʁɔ̃/ |
retrouverez /ʁə.tʁu.vʁe/ |
retrouveront /ʁə.tʁu.vʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | retrouverais /ʁə.tʁu.vʁɛ/ |
retrouverais /ʁə.tʁu.vʁɛ/ |
retrouverait /ʁə.tʁu.vʁɛ/ |
retrouverions /ʁə.tʁu.və.ʁjɔ̃/ |
retrouveriez /ʁə.tʁu.və.ʁje/ |
retrouveraient /ʁə.tʁu.vʁɛ/ | |
| 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 | retrouve /ʁə.tʁuv/ |
retrouves /ʁə.tʁuv/ |
retrouve /ʁə.tʁuv/ |
retrouvions /ʁə.tʁu.vjɔ̃/ |
retrouviez /ʁə.tʁu.vje/ |
retrouvent /ʁə.tʁuv/ |
| imperfect1 | retrouvasse /ʁə.tʁu.vas/ |
retrouvasses /ʁə.tʁu.vas/ |
retrouvât /ʁə.tʁu.va/ |
retrouvassions /ʁə.tʁu.va.sjɔ̃/ |
retrouvassiez /ʁə.tʁu.va.sje/ |
retrouvassent /ʁə.tʁu.vas/ | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | retrouve /ʁə.tʁuv/ |
— | retrouvons /ʁə.tʁu.vɔ̃/ |
retrouvez /ʁə.tʁu.ve/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms
- se retrouver à
Further reading
- “retrouver” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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