ressortir

From re- +‎ sortir.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

ressortir (first-person singular present ressurto, first-person singular preterite ressortí, past participle ressortit)

1. (intransitive) to be risen above the surroundings.
2. (intransitive) to stand out for excellence among others.

• “ressortir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ressortir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “ressortir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ressortir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.sɔʁ.tiʁ/

From re- +‎ sortir.

ressortir

1. (intransitive) to go or come back out; to go/come out again

   Elle est ressortie de la maison en jupe.

   She came back out of the house in a skirt.

   Il est entré dans la maison à midi, et en est ressorti deux heures plus tard.

   He went into the house at noon, and came out two hours later.

2. (transitive) to take back out; to take out

   Il a mis les mains dans ses poches, et en a ressorti une pièce.

   He put his hands in his pockets, and took out/drew out a coin.

3. (usually impersonal) to emerge from, according to evidence

   Il en ressort que […]

   It follows from this that

4. (intransitive) to stand out

   une image qui ressort ― an image that stands out

• This verb uses the auxiliary verb avoir when used transitively (or with a transitive sense, even when the complement is omitted); otherwise (when it is intransitive), it uses être.

  Elle est ressortie après avoir trouvé ses lunettes. ― She went back out after having found her glasses.

  Il a ressorti sa pomme de son sac. ― He got his apple back out of his bag.

This is one of a fairly large group of irregular -ir verbs that are all conjugated the same way. Other members of this group include sortir and dormir. The most significant difference between these verbs' conjugation and that of the regular -ir verbs is that these verbs' conjugation does not use the infix -iss-. Further, this conjugation has the forms (je, tu) ressors and (il) ressort in the present indicative and imperative, whereas a regular -ir verb would have *ressortis and *ressortit (as in the past historic).

• rentrer par une oreille et ressortir par l’autre

• → Romanian: reieși (calque)

From ressort +‎ -ir.

ressortir

1. (intransitive) to come under the jurispendence

This is one of a fairly large group of irregular -ir verbs that are all conjugated the same way. Other members of this group include sortir and dormir. The most significant difference between these verbs' conjugation and that of the regular -ir verbs is that these verbs' conjugation does not use the infix -iss-. Further, this conjugation has the forms (je, tu) ressors and (il) ressort in the present indicative and imperative, whereas a regular -ir verb would have *ressortis and *ressortit (as in the past historic).

• ressortissant

• “ressortir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.