redouter
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French redoubter, from Old French redoter, corresponding to re- + douter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.du.te/
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Verb
redouter
- to dread, to fear
- Il faut redouter les conséquences de nos choix.
- We should fear the consequences of our choices.
Conjugation
Conjugation of redouter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | redouter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | redoutant /ʁə.du.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | redouté /ʁə.du.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | redoute /ʁə.dut/ |
redoutes /ʁə.dut/ |
redoute /ʁə.dut/ |
redoutons /ʁə.du.tɔ̃/ |
redoutez /ʁə.du.te/ |
redoutent /ʁə.dut/ |
| imperfect | redoutais /ʁə.du.tɛ/ |
redoutais /ʁə.du.tɛ/ |
redoutait /ʁə.du.tɛ/ |
redoutions /ʁə.du.tjɔ̃/ |
redoutiez /ʁə.du.tje/ |
redoutaient /ʁə.du.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | redoutai /ʁə.du.te/ |
redoutas /ʁə.du.ta/ |
redouta /ʁə.du.ta/ |
redoutâmes /ʁə.du.tam/ |
redoutâtes /ʁə.du.tat/ |
redoutèrent /ʁə.du.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | redouterai /ʁə.du.tʁe/ |
redouteras /ʁə.du.tʁa/ |
redoutera /ʁə.du.tʁa/ |
redouterons /ʁə.du.tʁɔ̃/ |
redouterez /ʁə.du.tʁe/ |
redouteront /ʁə.du.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | redouterais /ʁə.du.tʁɛ/ |
redouterais /ʁə.du.tʁɛ/ |
redouterait /ʁə.du.tʁɛ/ |
redouterions /ʁə.du.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
redouteriez /ʁə.du.tə.ʁje/ |
redouteraient /ʁə.du.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | redoute /ʁə.dut/ |
redoutes /ʁə.dut/ |
redoute /ʁə.dut/ |
redoutions /ʁə.du.tjɔ̃/ |
redoutiez /ʁə.du.tje/ |
redoutent /ʁə.dut/ |
| imperfect2 | redoutasse /ʁə.du.tas/ |
redoutasses /ʁə.du.tas/ |
redoutât /ʁə.du.ta/ |
redoutassions /ʁə.du.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
redoutassiez /ʁə.du.ta.sje/ |
redoutassent /ʁə.du.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | redoute /ʁə.dut/ |
— | redoutons /ʁə.du.tɔ̃/ |
redoutez /ʁə.du.te/ |
— | |
| 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
Further reading
- “redouter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.