renvoyer

French

Etymology

From r- +‎ envoyer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɑ̃.vwa.je/

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Verb

renvoyer

1. to resend, retransmit; to send again
2. to send back (to give back to the original sender)
3. to give back, throw back, post back, bounce back, swing back etc.
4. to put off, postpone (an appointment, a duty)
5. to reflect (i.e. of a reflective surface)
6. to echo (of sound, to come back)
7. (transitive) to fire, dismiss, expel a student
8. (followed by the preposition à) to refer (somebody to something)
9. to remind (somebody of something)

Conjugation

This verb is one of a few verbs that conjugate like noyer, except in the future and conditional, where they conjugate like voir.

Conjugation of renvoyer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	renvoyer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	renvoyant /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		renvoyé /ʁɑ̃.vwa.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	renvoie /ʁɑ̃.vwa/	renvoies /ʁɑ̃.vwa/	renvoie /ʁɑ̃.vwa/	renvoyons /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɔ̃/	renvoyez /ʁɑ̃.vwa.je/	renvoient /ʁɑ̃.vwa/
	imperfect	renvoyais /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɛ/	renvoyais /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɛ/	renvoyait /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɛ/	renvoyions /ʁɑ̃.vwaj.jɔ̃/	renvoyiez /ʁɑ̃.vwaj.je/	renvoyaient /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɛ/
	past historic2	renvoyai /ʁɑ̃.vwa.je/	renvoyas /ʁɑ̃.vwa.ja/	renvoya /ʁɑ̃.vwa.ja/	renvoyâmes /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jam/	renvoyâtes /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jat/	renvoyèrent /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɛʁ/
	future	renverrai /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁe/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁe/	renverras /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁa/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁa/	renverra /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁa/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁa/	renverrons /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁɔ̃/	renverrez /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁe/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁe/	renverront /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	renverrais /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁɛ/	renverrais /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁɛ/	renverrait /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁɛ/	renverrions /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁjɔ̃/	renverriez /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁje/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.ʁje/	renverraient /ʁɑ̃.vɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁɑ̃.ve.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	renvoie /ʁɑ̃.vwa/	renvoies /ʁɑ̃.vwa/	renvoie /ʁɑ̃.vwa/	renvoyions /ʁɑ̃.vwaj.jɔ̃/	renvoyiez /ʁɑ̃.vwaj.je/	renvoient /ʁɑ̃.vwa/
	imperfect2	renvoyasse /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jas/	renvoyasses /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jas/	renvoyât /ʁɑ̃.vwa.ja/	renvoyassions /ʁɑ̃.vwa.ja.sjɔ̃/	renvoyassiez /ʁɑ̃.vwa.ja.sje/	renvoyassent /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	renvoie /ʁɑ̃.vwa/	—	renvoyons /ʁɑ̃.vwa.jɔ̃/	renvoyez /ʁɑ̃.vwa.je/	—
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

• renvoi
• renvoyer aux calendes grecques
• renvoyer la balle
• renvoyer l’ascenseur

 

Further reading

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