réviser

See also: reviser

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin revisere, based on French re- +‎ viser, or a learned formation stemming from Latin revisus. Compare Spanish revisar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁe.vi.ze/

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Verb

réviser

1. to revise, review

Conjugation

Conjugation of réviser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	réviser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	révisant /ʁe.vi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		révisé /ʁe.vi.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	révise /ʁe.viz/	révises /ʁe.viz/	révise /ʁe.viz/	révisons /ʁe.vi.zɔ̃/	révisez /ʁe.vi.ze/	révisent /ʁe.viz/
	imperfect	révisais /ʁe.vi.zɛ/	révisais /ʁe.vi.zɛ/	révisait /ʁe.vi.zɛ/	révisions /ʁe.vi.zjɔ̃/	révisiez /ʁe.vi.zje/	révisaient /ʁe.vi.zɛ/
	past historic2	révisai /ʁe.vi.ze/	révisas /ʁe.vi.za/	révisa /ʁe.vi.za/	révisâmes /ʁe.vi.zam/	révisâtes /ʁe.vi.zat/	révisèrent /ʁe.vi.zɛʁ/
	future	réviserai /ʁe.viz.ʁe/	réviseras /ʁe.viz.ʁa/	révisera /ʁe.viz.ʁa/	réviserons /ʁe.viz.ʁɔ̃/	réviserez /ʁe.viz.ʁe/	réviseront /ʁe.viz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	réviserais /ʁe.viz.ʁɛ/	réviserais /ʁe.viz.ʁɛ/	réviserait /ʁe.viz.ʁɛ/	réviserions /ʁe.vi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	réviseriez /ʁe.vi.zə.ʁje/	réviseraient /ʁe.viz.ʁɛ/
(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	révise /ʁe.viz/	révises /ʁe.viz/	révise /ʁe.viz/	révisions /ʁe.vi.zjɔ̃/	révisiez /ʁe.vi.zje/	révisent /ʁe.viz/
	imperfect2	révisasse /ʁe.vi.zas/	révisasses /ʁe.vi.zas/	révisât /ʁe.vi.za/	révisassions /ʁe.vi.za.sjɔ̃/	révisassiez /ʁe.vi.za.sje/	révisassent /ʁe.vi.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	révise /ʁe.viz/	—	révisons /ʁe.vi.zɔ̃/	révisez /ʁe.vi.ze/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• révision

Related terms

• viser

Further reading

• “réviser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.