refluer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin refluere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.fly.e/

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Verb

refluer

1. to flow back, to ebb
2. to go back, rush back

Conjugation

Conjugation of refluer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	refluer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	refluant /ʁə.fly.ɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		reflué /ʁə.fly.e/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	reflue /ʁə.fly/	reflues /ʁə.fly/	reflue /ʁə.fly/	refluons /ʁə.fly.ɔ̃/	refluez /ʁə.fly.e/	refluent /ʁə.fly/
	imperfect	refluais /ʁə.fly.ɛ/	refluais /ʁə.fly.ɛ/	refluait /ʁə.fly.ɛ/	refluions /ʁə.fly.jɔ̃/	refluiez /ʁə.fly.je/	refluaient /ʁə.fly.ɛ/
	past historic2	refluai /ʁə.fly.e/	refluas /ʁə.fly.a/	reflua /ʁə.fly.a/	refluâmes /ʁə.fly.am/	refluâtes /ʁə.fly.at/	refluèrent /ʁə.fly.ɛʁ/
	future	refluerai /ʁə.fly.ʁe/	reflueras /ʁə.fly.ʁa/	refluera /ʁə.fly.ʁa/	refluerons /ʁə.fly.ʁɔ̃/	refluerez /ʁə.fly.ʁe/	reflueront /ʁə.fly.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	refluerais /ʁə.fly.ʁɛ/	refluerais /ʁə.fly.ʁɛ/	refluerait /ʁə.fly.ʁɛ/	refluerions /ʁə.fly.ʁjɔ̃/	reflueriez /ʁə.fly.ʁje/	reflueraient /ʁə.fly.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	reflue /ʁə.fly/	reflues /ʁə.fly/	reflue /ʁə.fly/	refluions /ʁə.fly.jɔ̃/	refluiez /ʁə.fly.je/	refluent /ʁə.fly/
	imperfect2	refluasse /ʁə.fly.as/	refluasses /ʁə.fly.as/	refluât /ʁə.fly.a/	refluassions /ʁə.fly.a.sjɔ̃/	refluassiez /ʁə.fly.a.sje/	refluassent /ʁə.fly.as/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	reflue /ʁə.fly/	—	refluons /ʁə.fly.ɔ̃/	refluez /ʁə.fly.e/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “refluer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.