revendre

See also: revendré

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French revendre, from Latin revēndere, from re- (“re-: again, back”) + vēndere (“to sell”). Equivalent to re- +‎ vendre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.vɑ̃dʁ/

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Verb

revendre

1. resell, sell again

Conjugation

Conjugation of revendre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	revendre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	revendant /ʁə.vɑ̃.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		revendu /ʁə.vɑ̃.dy/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	revends /ʁə.vɑ̃/	revends /ʁə.vɑ̃/	revend /ʁə.vɑ̃/	revendons /ʁə.vɑ̃.dɔ̃/	revendez /ʁə.vɑ̃.de/	revendent /ʁə.vɑ̃d/
	imperfect	revendais /ʁə.vɑ̃.dɛ/	revendais /ʁə.vɑ̃.dɛ/	revendait /ʁə.vɑ̃.dɛ/	revendions /ʁə.vɑ̃.djɔ̃/	revendiez /ʁə.vɑ̃.dje/	revendaient /ʁə.vɑ̃.dɛ/
	past historic2	revendis /ʁə.vɑ̃.di/	revendis /ʁə.vɑ̃.di/	revendit /ʁə.vɑ̃.di/	revendîmes /ʁə.vɑ̃.dim/	revendîtes /ʁə.vɑ̃.dit/	revendirent /ʁə.vɑ̃.diʁ/
	future	revendrai /ʁə.vɑ̃.dʁe/	revendras /ʁə.vɑ̃.dʁa/	revendra /ʁə.vɑ̃.dʁa/	revendrons /ʁə.vɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/	revendrez /ʁə.vɑ̃.dʁe/	revendront /ʁə.vɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	revendrais /ʁə.vɑ̃.dʁɛ/	revendrais /ʁə.vɑ̃.dʁɛ/	revendrait /ʁə.vɑ̃.dʁɛ/	revendrions /ʁə.vɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	revendriez /ʁə.vɑ̃.dʁi.je/	revendraient /ʁə.vɑ̃.dʁɛ/
(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	revende /ʁə.vɑ̃d/	revendes /ʁə.vɑ̃d/	revende /ʁə.vɑ̃d/	revendions /ʁə.vɑ̃.djɔ̃/	revendiez /ʁə.vɑ̃.dje/	revendent /ʁə.vɑ̃d/
	imperfect2	revendisse /ʁə.vɑ̃.dis/	revendisses /ʁə.vɑ̃.dis/	revendît /ʁə.vɑ̃.di/	revendissions /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/	revendissiez /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.sje/	revendissent /ʁə.vɑ̃.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	revends /ʁə.vɑ̃/	—	revendons /ʁə.vɑ̃.dɔ̃/	revendez /ʁə.vɑ̃.de/	—
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).

Derived terms

• à revendre

Related terms

• revente
• revendeur

Further reading

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