revenir

• revindre

Inherited from Old Catalan revenir, from Latin revenīre.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [rə.βəˈni]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [rə.vəˈni]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [re.veˈniɾ]
• Rhymes: -i(ɾ)

revenir (first-person singular present revinc, first-person singular preterite revinguí, past participle revingut); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/

1. to come again
2. to return
3. of a river, to rise in level

• reveniment

• venir

• “revenir”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “revenir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “revenir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “revenir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Middle French revenir, from Old French revenir, from Latin revenīre (“come back, return”).

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.v(ə).niʁ/

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revenir

1. to come back, to return

   Je reviens de vacances. ― I'm coming back from holiday.

   Je n'ai pas l'intention de revenir à Paris. ― I am not planning on returning to Paris.

   • 2018, Zaz, On s'en remet jamais:

     Est-ce que la lumière reviendra ? Est-ce qu'on retrouvera le sommeil ? Y aura-t-il un nouveau soleil, quelqu'un d'autre qui brillera ?

     Will the light return? Will we get back to sleep? Will there be a new sun, someone else who will shine?

2. to grow back

   Les plumes reviennent à cet oiseau. ― This bird's feathers are growing back.

3. to recur, to be mentioned repeatedly

   Les auteurs grecs et latins reviennent souvent dans ses écrits. ― Greek and Latin authors often recur in his writings.

4. to come to mind, to be remembered

   Ce nom ne me revient pas. ― That name doesn't come to mind.

5. (intransitive) to recant, to go back on [with sur ‘a decision, promise, etc.’]

   revenir sur sa décision ― to go back on one's decision

   revenir sur sa parole ― to go back on one's word

6. (cooking, preceded by faire) to brown

   Mettez un peu de beurre et d’huile et faites revenir sur le gaz. ― Put in a bit of butter and oil and brown on the gas cooker.

7. to go to as what is due

   Il paie à elle ce qui lui revenait après le divorce. ― He pays to her what was due to her after the divorce.

8. to come to be responsible
   • 2023 August 14, Hydro-Québec, Power outages‎^[1]:

     Il revient à l’occupant du lieu visé de protéger ses biens.

     It is the users’ responsibility to protect their property.

This is a verb in a group of -ir verbs. All verbs ending in -venir, such as convenir and devenir, are conjugated this way. Such verbs are the only verbs whose the past historic and subjunctive imperfect endings do not start in one of these thematic vowels (-a-, -i-, -u-).

• rentrer
• retourner
• venir

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

• enivrer, reverni, verrine

From Old French revenir.

revenir

1. to come back, to return

• French: revenir

First attested circa 980 in La Vie de Saint Léger, inherited from Latin revenīre.

revenir

1. to come back, to return
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion:

     En la cambre revient mout tost

     [She] quickly came back into the room

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem revien distinct from the unstressed stem reven, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• Middle French: revenir
  • French: revenir
• Norman: r'vénîn
• Walloon: rivni

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (revenir, supplement)
• revenir on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

From re- +‎ venir, or from Latin revenīre.

• IPA^(key): /rebeˈniɾ/ [re.β̞eˈniɾ]
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: re‧ve‧nir

revenir (first-person singular present revengo, first-person singular preterite revine, past participle revenido)

1. (intransitive) to return, revert

   Synonyms: retornar, volver

2. (pronominal) to shrink, reduce

   Synonyms: encoger, consumir

3. (pronominal) to go bad, spoil, turn sour (of food)

   Synonyms: acedar, avinagrar

• “revenir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024