rejoindre
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃dʁ/
Audio (Paris): (file) - Hyphenation: re‧joindre
Verb
rejoindre
- to join, to join up
- to rejoin, join together
- to reach (a destination)
- Clara prit le Thalys, le lendemain, pour rejoindre Bruxelles. ― Clara took the Thalys train the next day to reach Brussels.
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like peindre. It uses the same endings as rendre or vendre, but its -nd- becomes -gn- before a vowel, and its past participle ends in 't' instead of a vowel.
Conjugation of rejoindre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rejoindre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rejoignant /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rejoint /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rejoins /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃/ |
rejoins /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃/ |
rejoint /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃/ |
rejoignons /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲɔ̃/ |
rejoignez /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲe/ |
rejoignent /ʁə.ʒwaɲ/ |
| imperfect | rejoignais /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲɛ/ |
rejoignais /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲɛ/ |
rejoignait /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲɛ/ |
rejoignions /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲjɔ̃/ |
rejoigniez /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲje/ |
rejoignaient /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rejoignis /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲi/ |
rejoignis /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲi/ |
rejoignit /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲi/ |
rejoignîmes /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲim/ |
rejoignîtes /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲit/ |
rejoignirent /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲiʁ/ | |
| future | rejoindrai /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃.dʁe/ |
rejoindras /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃.dʁa/ |
rejoindra /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃.dʁa/ |
rejoindrons /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/ |
rejoindrez /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃.dʁe/ |
rejoindront /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rejoindrais /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃.dʁɛ/ |
rejoindrais /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃.dʁɛ/ |
rejoindrait /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃.dʁɛ/ |
rejoindrions /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/ |
rejoindriez /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃.dʁi.je/ |
rejoindraient /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃.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 | rejoigne /ʁə.ʒwaɲ/ |
rejoignes /ʁə.ʒwaɲ/ |
rejoigne /ʁə.ʒwaɲ/ |
rejoignions /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲjɔ̃/ |
rejoigniez /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲje/ |
rejoignent /ʁə.ʒwaɲ/ |
| imperfect2 | rejoignisse /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲis/ |
rejoignisses /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲis/ |
rejoignît /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲi/ |
rejoignissions /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲi.sjɔ̃/ |
rejoignissiez /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲi.sje/ |
rejoignissent /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rejoins /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃/ |
— | rejoignons /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲɔ̃/ |
rejoignez /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲe/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “rejoindre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.