rendormir

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ endormir.

Pronunciation

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Verb

rendormir

1. (pronominal) to fall asleep again, to fall back to sleep, to go back to sleep

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) rendors and (il) rendort in the present indicative and imperative, whereas a regular -ir verb would have *rendormis and *rendormit (as in the past historic).

Conjugation of rendormir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rendormir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rendormant /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rendormi /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rendors /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ/	rendors /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ/	rendort /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ/	rendormons /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɔ̃/	rendormez /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.me/	rendorment /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁm/
	imperfect	rendormais /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɛ/	rendormais /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɛ/	rendormait /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɛ/	rendormions /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mjɔ̃/	rendormiez /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mje/	rendormaient /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɛ/
	past historic2	rendormis /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi/	rendormis /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi/	rendormit /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi/	rendormîmes /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mim/	rendormîtes /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mit/	rendormirent /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.miʁ/
	future	rendormirai /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁe/	rendormiras /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁa/	rendormira /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁa/	rendormirons /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁɔ̃/	rendormirez /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁe/	rendormiront /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rendormirais /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁɛ/	rendormirais /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁɛ/	rendormirait /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁɛ/	rendormirions /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁjɔ̃/	rendormiriez /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.ʁje/	rendormiraient /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.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	rendorme /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁm/	rendormes /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁm/	rendorme /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁm/	rendormions /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mjɔ̃/	rendormiez /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mje/	rendorment /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁm/
	imperfect2	rendormisse /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mis/	rendormisses /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mis/	rendormît /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi/	rendormissions /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.sjɔ̃/	rendormissiez /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mi.sje/	rendormissent /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rendors /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ/	—	rendormons /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.mɔ̃/	rendormez /ʁɑ̃.dɔʁ.me/	—
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).

Related terms

• endormir

Further reading

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