revenir
French, verb/ʁə.v(ə).niʁ/
revenir is spelled R-E-V-E-N-I-R (7 letters) and appears 78 times per million words in written French, the 1,092nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Revenir is a French verb meaning “to come back, to return” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Venir une autre fois, venir de nouveau”.
What does revenir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to come back, to return
Je reviens de vacances.
- 2
to grow back
Les plumes reviennent à cet oiseau.
- 3
to recur, to be mentioned repeatedly
Les auteurs grecs et latins reviennent souvent dans ses écrits.
- 4
to come to mind, to be remembered
Ce nom ne me revient pas.
- 5
to recant, to go back on
revenir sur sa décision
- 6
to brown
Mettez un peu de beurre et d’huile et faites revenir sur le gaz.
- 7
to go to as what is due
Il paie à elle ce qui lui revenait après le divorce.
- 8
to come to be responsible
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Venir une autre fois, venir de nouveau. 2. Reparaître après avoir disparu, arriver, se présenter ou se faire sentir de nouveau. 3. Reparaître après une campagne, un raid, une guerre, en parlant de marins, de soldats. 4. Croître de nouveau, repousser après avoir été coupé, arraché, etc.
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 revenir
- être + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- revenant gerund participle present
- étant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- revenu participle past
- reviens first-person indicative present
- revient indicative present singular
- revenons first-person indicative plural
- revenez indicative plural present
- reviennent indicative plural present
- revenais first-person imperfect indicative
- revenait imperfect indicative singular
- revenions first-person imperfect indicative
- reveniez imperfect indicative plural
- revenaient imperfect indicative plural
- revins first-person historic indicative
- revint historic indicative past
- revînmes first-person historic indicative
- revîntes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce revenir?
- /ʁə.v(ə).niʁ/
- \ʁə.vniʁ\
- \ʁə.və.niʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to revenir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is revenir in French?
revenir appears 78 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).