rembarrer
French
Etymology
From re- + embarrer.
Pronunciation
Verb
rembarrer
- (transitive) to rebuff, snub
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:
- — Moi, dit Binet, j'ai vu autrefois une pièce intitulée le Gamin de Paris, où l'on remarque le caractère d'un vieux général qui est vraiment tapé! Il rembarre un fils de famille qui avait séduit une ouvrière, qui à la fin…
- “I,” said Binet, “once saw a piece called the ‘Gamin de Paris,’ in which there was the character of an old general that is really hit off to a T. He sets down a young swell, who had seduced a working girl, who at the end———”
Conjugation
Conjugation of rembarrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rembarrer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rembarrant /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rembarré /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rembarre /ʁɑ̃.baʁ/ |
rembarres /ʁɑ̃.baʁ/ |
rembarre /ʁɑ̃.baʁ/ |
rembarrons /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁɔ̃/ |
rembarrez /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁe/ |
rembarrent /ʁɑ̃.baʁ/ |
| imperfect | rembarrais /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁɛ/ |
rembarrais /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁɛ/ |
rembarrait /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁɛ/ |
rembarrions /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rembarriez /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁje/ |
rembarraient /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rembarrai /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁe/ |
rembarras /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁa/ |
rembarra /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁa/ |
rembarrâmes /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁam/ |
rembarrâtes /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁat/ |
rembarrèrent /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | rembarrerai /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁə.ʁe/ |
rembarreras /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁə.ʁa/ |
rembarrera /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁə.ʁa/ |
rembarrerons /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
rembarrerez /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁə.ʁe/ |
rembarreront /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rembarrerais /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
rembarrerais /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
rembarrerait /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
rembarrerions /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rembarreriez /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁə.ʁje/ |
rembarreraient /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁə.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 | rembarre /ʁɑ̃.baʁ/ |
rembarres /ʁɑ̃.baʁ/ |
rembarre /ʁɑ̃.baʁ/ |
rembarrions /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rembarriez /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁje/ |
rembarrent /ʁɑ̃.baʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | rembarrasse /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁas/ |
rembarrasses /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁas/ |
rembarrât /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁa/ |
rembarrassions /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
rembarrassiez /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁa.sje/ |
rembarrassent /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rembarre /ʁɑ̃.baʁ/ |
— | rembarrons /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁɔ̃/ |
rembarrez /ʁɑ̃.ba.ʁe/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “rembarrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012