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See also: rèndre

English

Verb

rendre (third-person singular simple present rendres, present participle rendring, simple past and past participle rendred)

  1. Archaic form of render.

Anagrams

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

From Late Latin rendere, from Latin reddere.

Pronunciation

Verb

rendre

  1. to render
  2. to give back
  3. to make
    Tu me rends malade
    You make me ill
  4. to pay (a visit)
  5. (reflexive) to make one's way, to get oneself (into a place) (with dens or en)
    Je mé su rendu en payis de montagne
    I went to the mountains
  6. (reflexive) to call on (someone) (with chiéz)
  7. (reflexive) to surrender

Conjugation

    Conjugation of rendre - 3rd group verb
simple compound
infinitive rendre avêr rendu
past participle rendu -
gerund rendent èyent rendu
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je te il nos vos ils
present rendo rends rend rendens rendéds rendont
imperfect rendien rendias rendiêt rendians rendiâds rendiant
preterite rendi rendis rendit rendirons rendites, rendirâds rendiront
future rendré rendrés rendrat rendrens rendréds rendront
conditional rendren rendrias rendrêt rendrians rendriâds rendriant
compound
tenses 		present perfect Use the present tense of avêr plus the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect tense of avêr plus the past participle
past anterior Use the preterite tense of avêr plus the past participle
future perfect Use the future tense of avêr plus the past participle
conditional perfect Use the conditional tense of avêr plus the past participle
subjunctive que je que te qu'il que nos que vos qu'ils
present rendo rendes rende rendans rendiâds rendant
imperfect rendissen rendissias rendisse rendissians rendissiâds rendissant
compound
tenses 		past Use the present subjunctive of avêr plus the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect subjunctive of avêr plus the past participle
imperative - te - nos vos -
rends rendens rendéds

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French rendre, from Late Latin rendere, from Latin reddere.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁɑ̃dʁ/
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Verb

rendre

  1. to give back; to return, to restore
  2. to render
  3. to give
    rendre un avis favorable. ― To give a favorable opinion.
    rendre sa décision. ― To make a decision.
  4. to make
    • 2018, Zaz, Plume:
      J’entends les rires sur mon passage ; il paraît que je suis trop fragile. Mais comme les critiques glissent sur le plumage, être une plume rend les choses plus faciles.
      I hear the laughter as I pass; they say I'm too fragile. But as the critics glide over the plumage, being a feather makes things easier.
    Tu me rends malade. ― You make me ill.
  5. to pay (a visit)
    L’amour vient rendre visite à mon âme. ― Love comes to pay a visit to my soul.
  6. (reflexive) to make one's way (to a place), to get oneself (into a place) (with dans)
    • 2009, Christophe Josset, "L'État ne veut plus payer pour sauver ses touristes en perdition à l'étranger", France24.com:
      Les Français libérés lors d’une opération de secours après s’être rendus dans une zone étrangère dangereuse pourraient devoir en régler la facture.
      French people liberated during a rescue operation after having gotten themselves into a dangerous foreign zone may have to pay the bill.
  7. (reflexive, transitive with chez) to call on (someone)
  8. (reflexive) to surrender, to give in, to give oneself up to
    • 2013, Zaz, Laissez-moi:
      Ah, ah, laissez-moi perturber les cimes et me rendre à mon émoi.
      Ah, ah, let me disturb the peaks and surrender to my emotion.
    Après trois longues heures d’attente, le voleur s’est finalement rendu. ― After three long hours of waiting, the thief finally surrendered.

Conjugation

Conjugation of rendre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple rendre
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple rendant
/ʁɑ̃.dɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle rendu
/ʁɑ̃.dy/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present rends
/ʁɑ̃/ 		rends
/ʁɑ̃/ 		rend
/ʁɑ̃/ 		rendons
/ʁɑ̃.dɔ̃/ 		rendez
/ʁɑ̃.de/ 		rendent
/ʁɑ̃d/
imperfect rendais
/ʁɑ̃.dɛ/ 		rendais
/ʁɑ̃.dɛ/ 		rendait
/ʁɑ̃.dɛ/ 		rendions
/ʁɑ̃.djɔ̃/ 		rendiez
/ʁɑ̃.dje/ 		rendaient
/ʁɑ̃.dɛ/
past historic2 rendis
/ʁɑ̃.di/ 		rendis
/ʁɑ̃.di/ 		rendit
/ʁɑ̃.di/ 		rendîmes
/ʁɑ̃.dim/ 		rendîtes
/ʁɑ̃.dit/ 		rendirent
/ʁɑ̃.diʁ/
future rendrai
/ʁɑ̃.dʁe/ 		rendras
/ʁɑ̃.dʁa/ 		rendra
/ʁɑ̃.dʁa/ 		rendrons
/ʁɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ 		rendrez
/ʁɑ̃.dʁe/ 		rendront
/ʁɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/
conditional rendrais
/ʁɑ̃.dʁɛ/ 		rendrais
/ʁɑ̃.dʁɛ/ 		rendrait
/ʁɑ̃.dʁɛ/ 		rendrions
/ʁɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/ 		rendriez
/ʁɑ̃.dʁi.je/ 		rendraient
/ʁɑ̃.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 rende
/ʁɑ̃d/ 		rendes
/ʁɑ̃d/ 		rende
/ʁɑ̃d/ 		rendions
/ʁɑ̃.djɔ̃/ 		rendiez
/ʁɑ̃.dje/ 		rendent
/ʁɑ̃d/
imperfect2 rendisse
/ʁɑ̃.dis/ 		rendisses
/ʁɑ̃.dis/ 		rendît
/ʁɑ̃.di/ 		rendissions
/ʁɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ 		rendissiez
/ʁɑ̃.di.sje/ 		rendissent
/ʁɑ̃.dis/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — rends
/ʁɑ̃/ 		— rendons
/ʁɑ̃.dɔ̃/ 		rendez
/ʁɑ̃.de/ 		—
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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Conjugation of se rendre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple se rendre
compound s'être + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple se rendant
/sə ʁɑ̃.dɑ̃/
compound ayant or étant + past participle
past participle rendu
/ʁɑ̃.dy/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present me rends
/mə ʁɑ̃/ 		te rends
/tə ʁɑ̃/ 		se rend
/sə ʁɑ̃/ 		nous rendons
/nu ʁɑ̃.dɔ̃/ 		vous rendez
/vu ʁɑ̃.de/ 		se rendent
/sə ʁɑ̃d/
imperfect me rendais
/mə ʁɑ̃.dɛ/ 		te rendais
/tə ʁɑ̃.dɛ/ 		se rendait
/sə ʁɑ̃.dɛ/ 		nous rendions
/nu ʁɑ̃.djɔ̃/ 		vous rendiez
/vu ʁɑ̃.dje/ 		se rendaient
/sə ʁɑ̃.dɛ/
past historic2 me rendis
/mə ʁɑ̃.di/ 		te rendis
/tə ʁɑ̃.di/ 		se rendit
/sə ʁɑ̃.di/ 		nous rendîmes
/nu ʁɑ̃.dim/ 		vous rendîtes
/vu ʁɑ̃.dit/ 		se rendirent
/sə ʁɑ̃.diʁ/
future me rendrai
/mə ʁɑ̃.dʁe/ 		te rendras
/tə ʁɑ̃.dʁa/ 		se rendra
/sə ʁɑ̃.dʁa/ 		nous rendrons
/nu ʁɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ 		vous rendrez
/vu ʁɑ̃.dʁe/ 		se rendront
/sə ʁɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/
conditional me rendrais
/mə ʁɑ̃.dʁɛ/ 		te rendrais
/tə ʁɑ̃.dʁɛ/ 		se rendrait
/sə ʁɑ̃.dʁɛ/ 		nous rendrions
/nu ʁɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/ 		vous rendriez
/vu ʁɑ̃.dʁi.je/ 		se rendraient
/sə ʁɑ̃.dʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of s'être + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of s'être + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of s'être + past participle
future perfect future of s'être + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of s'être + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present me rende
/mə ʁɑ̃d/ 		te rendes
/tə ʁɑ̃d/ 		se rende
/sə ʁɑ̃d/ 		nous rendions
/nu ʁɑ̃.djɔ̃/ 		vous rendiez
/vu ʁɑ̃.dje/ 		se rendent
/sə ʁɑ̃d/
imperfect2 me rendisse
/mə ʁɑ̃.dis/ 		te rendisses
/tə ʁɑ̃.dis/ 		se rendît
/sə ʁɑ̃.di/ 		nous rendissions
/nu ʁɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ 		vous rendissiez
/vu ʁɑ̃.di.sje/ 		se rendissent
/sə ʁɑ̃.dis/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of s'être + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of s'être + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — rends-toi
/ʁɑ̃.twa/ 		— rendons-nous
/ʁɑ̃.dɔ̃.nu/ 		rendez-vous
/ʁɑ̃.de.vu/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of s'être + past participle — simple imperative of s'être + past participle simple imperative of s'être + 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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

Further reading

Hungarian

Etymology

rend (“order”) +‎ -re (case suffix)

Pronunciation

Noun

rendre

  1. sublative singular of rend
    A gyerekeknek rendre és állandóságra van szükségük. ― Children need order and stability.

Derived terms

Prefixed verbs

Adverb

rendre

  1. (formal) respectively (used when comparing lists, where the term denotes that the items in the lists correspond to each other in the order they are given)
  2. (archaic, folksy) by turns, successively, in order, step by step (one after the other without pause)
    Synonyms: egymás után, sorjában
    Mondd el rendre, hogy mi történt. ― Tell me in order what happened.

Interjection

rendre

  1. (archaic, politics) order! (the speaker's call to order during sessions in legislature)
    Rendre, rendre! ― Order, order!

Further reading

  • (adverb): rendre in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • (interjection): rendre in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin rendere, from Latin reddere.

Verb

rendre

  1. to give back; to return (something)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of rendre (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive rendre avoir rendu
gerund en rendant gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle rendant
past participle rendu
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative jo tu il nos vos il
simple
tenses 		present rent renz rent rendons rendez rendent
imperfect rendoie, rendeie rendoies, rendeies rendoit, rendeit rendiiens, rendiens rendiiez, rendiez rendoient, rendeient
preterite rendi rendis rendié rendimes rendistes rendierent
future rendrai rendras rendra rendrons rendroiz, rendreiz, rendrez rendront
conditional rendroie, rendreie rendroies, rendreies rendroit, rendreit rendriiens, rendriens rendriiez, rendriez rendroient, rendreient
compound
tenses 		present perfect present tense of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
past anterior preterite tense of avoir + past participle
future perfect future tense of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que jo que tu qu’il que nos que vos qu’il
simple
tenses 		present rende rendes rende rendons rendez rendent
imperfect rendisse rendisses rendist rendissons, rendissiens rendissoiz, rendissez, rendissiez rendissent
compound
tenses 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nos vos –
— rent — rendons rendez —

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