retrouver

French

Etymology

re- +‎ trouver

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʁə.tʁu.ve/
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Verb

retrouver

  1. (transitive) to find (again); to rediscover
    Ils ont retrouvé le trésor qu'ils avaient enterré.
    They re-found the treasure they had buried.
  2. (transitive) to remember; to recall
    Je ne retrouve plus son nom.
    I no longer remember his name.
  3. (transitive) to meet; to meet up; to bump into
    J'ai retrouvé mon ancien ami au bord du lac.
    I met up with my old friend by the lake.
  4. (transitive) to go back to, to return to
  5. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to find oneself; to end up
    Si tu continues à être aussi désagréable, tu vas te retrouver tout seul.
    If you keep being so unpleasant, you're going to end up alone.

Conjugation
Conjugation of retrouver (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle retrouvant
/ʁə.tʁu.vɑ̃/
past participle retrouvé
/ʁə.tʁu.ve/
infinitive
simple retrouver
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple retrouvant
/ʁə.tʁu.vɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present retrouve
/ʁə.tʁuv/		 retrouves
/ʁə.tʁuv/		 retrouve
/ʁə.tʁuv/		 retrouvons
/ʁə.tʁu.vɔ̃/		 retrouvez
/ʁə.tʁu.ve/		 retrouvent
/ʁə.tʁuv/
imperfect retrouvais
/ʁə.tʁu.vɛ/		 retrouvais
/ʁə.tʁu.vɛ/		 retrouvait
/ʁə.tʁu.vɛ/		 retrouvions
/ʁə.tʁu.vjɔ̃/		 retrouviez
/ʁə.tʁu.vje/		 retrouvaient
/ʁə.tʁu.vɛ/
past historic2 retrouvai
/ʁə.tʁu.ve/		 retrouvas
/ʁə.tʁu.va/		 retrouva
/ʁə.tʁu.va/		 retrouvâmes
/ʁə.tʁu.vam/		 retrouvâtes
/ʁə.tʁu.vat/		 retrouvèrent
/ʁə.tʁu.vɛʁ/
future retrouverai
/ʁə.tʁu.vʁe/		 retrouveras
/ʁə.tʁu.vʁa/		 retrouvera
/ʁə.tʁu.vʁa/		 retrouverons
/ʁə.tʁu.vʁɔ̃/		 retrouverez
/ʁə.tʁu.vʁe/		 retrouveront
/ʁə.tʁu.vʁɔ̃/
conditional retrouverais
/ʁə.tʁu.vʁɛ/		 retrouverais
/ʁə.tʁu.vʁɛ/		 retrouverait
/ʁə.tʁu.vʁɛ/		 retrouverions
/ʁə.tʁu.və.ʁjɔ̃/		 retrouveriez
/ʁə.tʁu.və.ʁje/		 retrouveraient
/ʁə.tʁu.vʁɛ/
(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 retrouve
/ʁə.tʁuv/		 retrouves
/ʁə.tʁuv/		 retrouve
/ʁə.tʁuv/		 retrouvions
/ʁə.tʁu.vjɔ̃/		 retrouviez
/ʁə.tʁu.vje/		 retrouvent
/ʁə.tʁuv/
imperfect2 retrouvasse
/ʁə.tʁu.vas/		 retrouvasses
/ʁə.tʁu.vas/		 retrouvât
/ʁə.tʁu.va/		 retrouvassions
/ʁə.tʁu.va.sjɔ̃/		 retrouvassiez
/ʁə.tʁu.va.sje/		 retrouvassent
/ʁə.tʁu.vas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — retrouve
/ʁə.tʁuv/		 — retrouvons
/ʁə.tʁu.vɔ̃/		 retrouvez
/ʁə.tʁu.ve/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms
  • se retrouver à

Further reading
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