rendre
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[edit] French
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *rendere, from reddere.
[edit] Verb
rendre
[edit] Conjugation
- This verb is one of a fairly large group of -re verbs, sometimes called the regular -re verbs (-endre, -ondre, -andre, -erdre and -ordre), that are all conjugated the same way. Other members of this group include vendre and perdre.
Conjugation of rendre
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | rendre | avoir rendu | |||||
| gerund | en rendant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | rendant | ||||||
| past participle | rendu | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | rends | rends | rend | rendons | rendez | rendent |
| imperfect | rendais | rendais | rendait | rendions | rendiez | rendaient | |
| past historic | rendis | rendis | rendit | rendîmes | rendîtes | rendirent | |
| future | rendrai | rendras | rendra | rendrons | rendrez | rendront | |
| conditional | rendrais | rendrais | rendrait | rendrions | rendriez | rendraient | |
| 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 anterior | 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 | rende | rendes | rende | rendions | rendiez | rendent |
| imperfect | rendisse | rendisses | rendît | rendissions | rendissiez | rendissent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | rends | — | rendons | rendez | — | ||

