revenir

From Old Occitan, from Latin revenīre, present active infinitive of reveniō (“come back, return”).

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /rə.vəˈni/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /rə.bəˈni/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /re.veˈniɾ/

revenir (first-person singular present revinc, past participle revingut)

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

As intervenir.

• reveniment m

• Institut d’Estudis Catalans (1995). Diccionari de la llengua catalana (4th edition). →ISBN.

From Middle French revenir, from Old French revenir, from Latin revenīre, present active infinitive of reveniō (“come back, return”).

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.v(ə).niʁ/

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revenir

1. to come back, to return

   Je reviens de mes vacances.

   I'm coming back from my holiday.

   Je n'ai pas l'intention de revenir à Paris.

   I am not planning on returning to Paris.

2. (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.

This is a verb in a group of -ir verbs. All verbs ending in -venir, such as convenir and devenir, are conjugated this way.

• revenir de loin
• revenu, revenue
• revenant

• rentrer
• retourner
• venir

• “revenir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• 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, present active infinitive of reveniō.

revenir

1. to come back, to return
   • circa 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, present active infinitive of reveniō.

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

1. (intransitive) to return, revert
2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to shrink, reduce
3. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to go bad, spoil, turn sour (of food)

• (return): retornar, volver
• (shrink): encogerse, consumirse
• (go bad): acedarse, avinagrarse