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rajeunir
rajeunir
French
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.
Derived terms
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)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | rajeunir | avoir rajeuni | |||||
| gerund | en rajeunissant | en ayant rajeuni | |||||
| present participle | rajeunissant /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | rajeuni /ʁa.ʒœ.ni/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| 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/ |
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| past historic1 | rajeunis /ʁa.ʒœ.ni/ |
rajeunis /ʁa.ʒœ.ni/ |
rajeunit /ʁa.ʒœ.ni/ |
rajeunîmes /ʁa.ʒœ.nim/ |
rajeunîtes /ʁa.ʒœ.nit/ |
rajeunirent /ʁa.ʒœ.niʁ/ |
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| 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/ |
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| 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/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| 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/ |
| imperfect1 |
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/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | rajeunis /ʁa.ʒœ.ni/ |
— | rajeunissons /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.sɔ̃/ |
rajeunissez /ʁa.ʒœ.ni.se/ |
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