rembrunir
French
Etymology
From re- + embrunir.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.niʁ/
Verb
rembrunir
- (transitive) to darken
- (reflexive) to darken, cloud over
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 rembrunir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rembrunir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rembrunissant /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rembruni /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rembrunis /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni/ |
rembrunis /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni/ |
rembrunit /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni/ |
rembrunissons /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.sɔ̃/ |
rembrunissez /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.se/ |
rembrunissent /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.nis/ |
| imperfect | rembrunissais /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.sɛ/ |
rembrunissais /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.sɛ/ |
rembrunissait /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.sɛ/ |
rembrunissions /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
rembrunissiez /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.sje/ |
rembrunissaient /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rembrunis /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni/ |
rembrunis /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni/ |
rembrunit /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni/ |
rembrunîmes /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.nim/ |
rembrunîtes /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.nit/ |
rembrunirent /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.niʁ/ | |
| future | rembrunirai /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.ʁe/ |
rembruniras /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.ʁa/ |
rembrunira /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.ʁa/ |
rembrunirons /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.ʁɔ̃/ |
rembrunirez /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.ʁe/ |
rembruniront /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rembrunirais /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.ʁɛ/ |
rembrunirais /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.ʁɛ/ |
rembrunirait /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.ʁɛ/ |
rembrunirions /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rembruniriez /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.ʁje/ |
rembruniraient /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.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 | rembrunisse /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.nis/ |
rembrunisses /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.nis/ |
rembrunisse /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.nis/ |
rembrunissions /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
rembrunissiez /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.sje/ |
rembrunissent /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.nis/ |
| imperfect2 | rembrunisse /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.nis/ |
rembrunisses /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.nis/ |
rembrunît /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni/ |
rembrunissions /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
rembrunissiez /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.sje/ |
rembrunissent /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.nis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rembrunis /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni/ |
— | rembrunissons /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.sɔ̃/ |
rembrunissez /ʁɑ̃.bʁy.ni.se/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- rembrunissement
Further reading
- “rembrunir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.