renvoyer
French, verb/ʁɑ̃.vwa.je/
renvoyer is spelled R-E-N-V-O-Y-E-R (8 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written French, the 6,385th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Renvoyer is a French verb meaning “to resend, retransmit; to send again” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Envoyer à nouveau”.
What does renvoyer mean in English?
verb
- 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
to fire, dismiss, expel a student
- 8
to refer (somebody to something)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Envoyer à nouveau. 2. Faire reporter à une personne une chose qu’elle avait envoyée. 3. Faire reporter à une personne une chose qui lui appartient et qu’elle avait prêtée ou laissée par mégarde en quelque endroit. 4. Faire retourner quelqu’un ou quelque chose au lieu d’où il était envoyé, d’où il était parti.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of renvoyer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- renvoyant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- renvoyé participle past
- renvoie first-person indicative present
- renvoies indicative present second-person
- renvoyons first-person indicative plural
- renvoyez indicative plural present
- renvoient indicative plural present
- renvoyais first-person imperfect indicative
- renvoyait imperfect indicative singular
- renvoyions first-person imperfect indicative
- renvoyiez imperfect indicative plural
- renvoyaient imperfect indicative plural
- renvoyai first-person historic indicative
- renvoyas historic indicative past
- renvoya historic indicative past
- renvoyâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce renvoyer?
- /ʁɑ̃.vwa.je/
- \ʁɑ̃.vwa.je\
- [ʁɑ̃.vwa.je]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to renvoyer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is renvoyer in French?
renvoyer appears 11 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).