rétribuer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin rētribuere (“to give back, return, repay; to recompense”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁe.tʁi.bɥe/
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Verb
rétribuer
Conjugation
Conjugation of rétribuer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rétribuer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rétribuant /ʁe.tʁi.bɥɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rétribué /ʁe.tʁi.bɥe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rétribue /ʁe.tʁi.by/ |
rétribues /ʁe.tʁi.by/ |
rétribue /ʁe.tʁi.by/ |
rétribuons /ʁe.tʁi.bɥɔ̃/ |
rétribuez /ʁe.tʁi.bɥe/ |
rétribuent /ʁe.tʁi.by/ |
| imperfect | rétribuais /ʁe.tʁi.bɥɛ/ |
rétribuais /ʁe.tʁi.bɥɛ/ |
rétribuait /ʁe.tʁi.bɥɛ/ |
rétribuions /ʁe.tʁi.by.jɔ̃/ |
rétribuiez /ʁe.tʁi.by.je/ |
rétribuaient /ʁe.tʁi.bɥɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rétribuai /ʁe.tʁi.bɥe/ |
rétribuas /ʁe.tʁi.bɥa/ |
rétribua /ʁe.tʁi.bɥa/ |
rétribuâmes /ʁe.tʁi.bɥam/ |
rétribuâtes /ʁe.tʁi.bɥat/ |
rétribuèrent /ʁe.tʁi.bɥɛʁ/ | |
| future | rétribuerai /ʁe.tʁi.by.ʁe/ |
rétribueras /ʁe.tʁi.by.ʁa/ |
rétribuera /ʁe.tʁi.by.ʁa/ |
rétribuerons /ʁe.tʁi.by.ʁɔ̃/ |
rétribuerez /ʁe.tʁi.by.ʁe/ |
rétribueront /ʁe.tʁi.by.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rétribuerais /ʁe.tʁi.by.ʁɛ/ |
rétribuerais /ʁe.tʁi.by.ʁɛ/ |
rétribuerait /ʁe.tʁi.by.ʁɛ/ |
rétribuerions /ʁe.tʁi.by.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rétribueriez /ʁe.tʁi.by.ʁje/ |
rétribueraient /ʁe.tʁi.by.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 | rétribue /ʁe.tʁi.by/ |
rétribues /ʁe.tʁi.by/ |
rétribue /ʁe.tʁi.by/ |
rétribuions /ʁe.tʁi.by.jɔ̃/ |
rétribuiez /ʁe.tʁi.by.je/ |
rétribuent /ʁe.tʁi.by/ |
| imperfect2 | rétribuasse /ʁe.tʁi.bɥas/ |
rétribuasses /ʁe.tʁi.bɥas/ |
rétribuât /ʁe.tʁi.bɥa/ |
rétribuassions /ʁe.tʁi.bɥa.sjɔ̃/ |
rétribuassiez /ʁe.tʁi.bɥa.sje/ |
rétribuassent /ʁe.tʁi.bɥas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rétribue /ʁe.tʁi.by/ |
— | rétribuons /ʁe.tʁi.bɥɔ̃/ |
rétribuez /ʁe.tʁi.bɥe/ |
— | |
| 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
- “rétribuer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.