réinvestir

French

Etymology

From ré- +‎ investir.

Verb

réinvestir

1. to reinvest

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of réinvestir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	réinvestir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	réinvestissant /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		réinvesti /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	réinvestis /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti/	réinvestis /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti/	réinvestit /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti/	réinvestissons /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.sɔ̃/	réinvestissez /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.se/	réinvestissent /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.tis/
	imperfect	réinvestissais /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.sɛ/	réinvestissais /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.sɛ/	réinvestissait /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.sɛ/	réinvestissions /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.sjɔ̃/	réinvestissiez /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.sje/	réinvestissaient /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.sɛ/
	past historic2	réinvestis /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti/	réinvestis /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti/	réinvestit /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti/	réinvestîmes /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.tim/	réinvestîtes /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.tit/	réinvestirent /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.tiʁ/
	future	réinvestirai /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ʁe/	réinvestiras /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ʁa/	réinvestira /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ʁa/	réinvestirons /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ʁɔ̃/	réinvestirez /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ʁe/	réinvestiront /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	réinvestirais /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ʁɛ/	réinvestirais /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ʁɛ/	réinvestirait /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ʁɛ/	réinvestirions /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	réinvestiriez /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.ʁje/	réinvestiraient /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.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	réinvestisse /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.tis/	réinvestisses /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.tis/	réinvestisse /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.tis/	réinvestissions /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.sjɔ̃/	réinvestissiez /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.sje/	réinvestissent /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.tis/
	imperfect2	réinvestisse /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.tis/	réinvestisses /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.tis/	réinvestît /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti/	réinvestissions /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.sjɔ̃/	réinvestissiez /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.sje/	réinvestissent /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	réinvestis /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti/	—	réinvestissons /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.sɔ̃/	réinvestissez /ʁe.ɛ̃.vɛs.ti.se/	—
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).

Related terms

• investir

Further reading

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