revenir

• revindre

From Old Catalan revenir, from Latin revenīre.

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

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

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

• reveniment

• venir

• “revenir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “revenir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “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.

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
   • 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?

   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.

2. (transitive with sur) to recant

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

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

3. (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. 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, 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.

• 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. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to shrink, reduce

   Synonyms: encoger, consumir

3. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to go bad, spoil, turn sour (of food)

   Synonyms: acedar, avinagrar

• “revenir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014