rejoindre

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ joindre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃dʁ/

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• Hyphenation: re‧joindre

Verb

rejoindre

1. to join, to join up
2. to rejoin, join together
3. to reach (a destination)

   Clara prit le Thalys, le lendemain, pour rejoindre Bruxelles. ― Clara took the Thalys train the next day to reach Brussels.

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like peindre. It uses the same endings as rendre or vendre, but its -nd- becomes -gn- before a vowel, and its past participle ends in 't' instead of a vowel.

Conjugation of rejoindre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rejoindre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rejoignant /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rejoint /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rejoins /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃/	rejoins /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃/	rejoint /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃/	rejoignons /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲɔ̃/	rejoignez /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲe/	rejoignent /ʁə.ʒwaɲ/
	imperfect	rejoignais /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲɛ/	rejoignais /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲɛ/	rejoignait /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲɛ/	rejoignions /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲjɔ̃/	rejoigniez /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲje/	rejoignaient /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲɛ/
	past historic2	rejoignis /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲi/	rejoignis /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲi/	rejoignit /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲi/	rejoignîmes /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲim/	rejoignîtes /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲit/	rejoignirent /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲiʁ/
	future	rejoindrai /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃.dʁe/	rejoindras /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃.dʁa/	rejoindra /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃.dʁa/	rejoindrons /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/	rejoindrez /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃.dʁe/	rejoindront /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rejoindrais /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃.dʁɛ/	rejoindrais /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃.dʁɛ/	rejoindrait /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃.dʁɛ/	rejoindrions /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	rejoindriez /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃.dʁi.je/	rejoindraient /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃.dʁɛ/
(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	rejoigne /ʁə.ʒwaɲ/	rejoignes /ʁə.ʒwaɲ/	rejoigne /ʁə.ʒwaɲ/	rejoignions /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲjɔ̃/	rejoigniez /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲje/	rejoignent /ʁə.ʒwaɲ/
	imperfect2	rejoignisse /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲis/	rejoignisses /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲis/	rejoignît /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲi/	rejoignissions /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲi.sjɔ̃/	rejoignissiez /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲi.sje/	rejoignissent /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rejoins /ʁə.ʒwɛ̃/	—	rejoignons /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲɔ̃/	rejoignez /ʁə.ʒwa.ɲe/	—
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).

Further reading

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