rajeunir
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁa.ʒœ.niʁ/
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Verb
rajeunir
- (transitive) to rejuvenate
- (transitive) to make young
- (figuratively, transitive) to take off (years from someone's age) (to make appear younger)
- Ce costume le rajeunit de 10 ans. ― This costume takes 10 years off him.
- (figuratively, transitive) to bring back; to send back (remind of a past time)
- Cette vieille musique me rajeunit. ― This old music brings me back.
- (intransitive) to get younger
- Dans le film, Benjamin Button rajeunit. ― In the film, Benjamin Button gets younger.
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 rajeunir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rajeunir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rajeunissant /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rajeuni /ʁa.ʒœ.ni/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rajeunis /ʁa.ʒœ.ni/ |
rajeunis /ʁa.ʒœ.ni/ |
rajeunit /ʁa.ʒœ.ni/ |
rajeunissons /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sɔ̃/ |
rajeunissez /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.se/ |
rajeunissent /ʁa.ʒœ.nis/ |
| imperfect | rajeunissais /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sɛ/ |
rajeunissais /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sɛ/ |
rajeunissait /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sɛ/ |
rajeunissions /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
rajeunissiez /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sje/ |
rajeunissaient /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rajeunis /ʁa.ʒœ.ni/ |
rajeunis /ʁa.ʒœ.ni/ |
rajeunit /ʁa.ʒœ.ni/ |
rajeunîmes /ʁa.ʒœ.nim/ |
rajeunîtes /ʁa.ʒœ.nit/ |
rajeunirent /ʁa.ʒœ.niʁ/ | |
| future | rajeunirai /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.ʁe/ |
rajeuniras /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.ʁa/ |
rajeunira /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.ʁa/ |
rajeunirons /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.ʁɔ̃/ |
rajeunirez /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.ʁe/ |
rajeuniront /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rajeunirais /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.ʁɛ/ |
rajeunirais /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.ʁɛ/ |
rajeunirait /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.ʁɛ/ |
rajeunirions /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rajeuniriez /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.ʁje/ |
rajeuniraient /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.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 | rajeunisse /ʁa.ʒœ.nis/ |
rajeunisses /ʁa.ʒœ.nis/ |
rajeunisse /ʁa.ʒœ.nis/ |
rajeunissions /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
rajeunissiez /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sje/ |
rajeunissent /ʁa.ʒœ.nis/ |
| imperfect2 | rajeunisse /ʁa.ʒœ.nis/ |
rajeunisses /ʁa.ʒœ.nis/ |
rajeunît /ʁa.ʒœ.ni/ |
rajeunissions /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
rajeunissiez /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sje/ |
rajeunissent /ʁa.ʒœ.nis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rajeunis /ʁa.ʒœ.ni/ |
— | rajeunissons /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sɔ̃/ |
rajeunissez /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.se/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “rajeunir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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