repaître
See also: repaitre
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.pɛtʁ/
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Verb
repaître
- (transitive, obsolete) to feed
- (transitive, obsolete, figurative) to glut, to sate
- 1640, Pierre Corneille, Horace, act 4, scene 7:
- Viens repaître tes yeux d’un spectacle si doux
- Come feast your eyes on this touching scene
- (intransitive, obsolete) to eat
- (literary, takes a reflexive pronoun) to feed on, to feast on
- 2020, Leigh Bardugo, Grisha, page 23:
- Longues griffes crasseuses, ailes tannées et plusieurs rangées de dents affûtées comme des rasoirs pour se repaître de chair humaine.
- Long, filthy claws, leathery wings, and rows of razor-sharp teeth for feasting on human flesh.
Conjugation
This verb is not conjugated in certain tenses.
Conjugation of repaître (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | repaître | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | repaissant /ʁə.pɛ.sɑ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | repu /ʁə.py/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | repais /ʁə.pɛ/ |
repais /ʁə.pɛ/ |
repaît /ʁə.pɛ/ |
repaissons /ʁə.pɛ.sɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.sɔ̃/ |
repaissez /ʁə.pɛ.se/ or /ʁə.pe.se/ |
repaissent /ʁə.pɛs/ |
| imperfect | repaissais /ʁə.pɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.sɛ/ |
repaissais /ʁə.pɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.sɛ/ |
repaissait /ʁə.pɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.sɛ/ |
repaissions /ʁə.pɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.sjɔ̃/ |
repaissiez /ʁə.pɛ.sje/ or /ʁə.pe.sje/ |
repaissaient /ʁə.pɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | repus /ʁə.py/ |
repus /ʁə.py/ |
reput /ʁə.py/ |
repûmes /ʁə.pym/ |
repûtes /ʁə.pyt/ |
repurent /ʁə.pyʁ/ | |
| future | repaîtrai /ʁə.pɛ.tʁe/ or /ʁə.pe.tʁe/ |
repaîtras /ʁə.pɛ.tʁa/ or /ʁə.pe.tʁa/ |
repaîtra /ʁə.pɛ.tʁa/ or /ʁə.pe.tʁa/ |
repaîtrons /ʁə.pɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.tʁɔ̃/ |
repaîtrez /ʁə.pɛ.tʁe/ or /ʁə.pe.tʁe/ |
repaîtront /ʁə.pɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | repaîtrais /ʁə.pɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.tʁɛ/ |
repaîtrais /ʁə.pɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.tʁɛ/ |
repaîtrait /ʁə.pɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.tʁɛ/ |
repaîtrions /ʁə.pɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
repaîtriez /ʁə.pɛ.tʁi.je/ or /ʁə.pe.tʁi.je/ |
repaîtraient /ʁə.pɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | repaisse /ʁə.pɛs/ |
repaisses /ʁə.pɛs/ |
repaisse /ʁə.pɛs/ |
repaissions /ʁə.pɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.sjɔ̃/ |
repaissiez /ʁə.pɛ.sje/ or /ʁə.pe.sje/ |
repaissent /ʁə.pɛs/ |
| imperfect2 | repusse /ʁə.pys/ |
repusses /ʁə.pys/ |
repût /ʁə.py/ |
repussions /ʁə.py.sjɔ̃/ |
repussiez /ʁə.py.sje/ |
repussent /ʁə.pys/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | repais /ʁə.pɛ/ |
— | repaissons /ʁə.pɛ.sɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.sɔ̃/ |
repaissez /ʁə.pɛ.se/ or /ʁə.pe.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). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “repaître”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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