rentrer
French, verb/ʁɑ̃.tʁe/
rentrer is a French verb meaning “to go back, to re-enter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Entrer de nouveau, entrer après être sorti, revenir à”.
What does rentrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to go back, to re-enter
rentrer dans la salle
- 2
to go (back) home, to come (back) home
À trois heures du matin, je suis rentré(e) chez moi.
- 3
to get in, to go in, to fit in
Ses chaussures ne rentrent pas dans son sac.
- 4
to bring in, to get in, to put in
Rentre ta monnaie dans ta poche.
- 5
to score (a goal)
- 6
to collide (with), crash (into), run (into)
Fais attention! Tu as failli me rentrer dedans!
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Entrer de nouveau, entrer après être sorti, revenir à. 2. Entrer. 3. Recouvrer. 4. Pénétrer.
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 rentrer
- avoir infinitive multiword-construction
- être + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- rentrant gerund participle present
- ayant gerund multiword-construction participle
- étant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- rentré participle past
- rentre first-person indicative present
- rentres indicative present second-person
- rentrons first-person indicative plural
- rentrez indicative plural present
- rentrent indicative plural present
- rentrais first-person imperfect indicative
- rentrait imperfect indicative singular
- rentrions first-person imperfect indicative
- rentriez imperfect indicative plural
- rentraient imperfect indicative plural
- rentrai first-person historic indicative
- rentras historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce rentrer?
- /ʁɑ̃.tʁe/
- \ʁɑ̃.tʁe\
- [ʁɑ̃.tʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to rentrer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is rentrer in French?
rentrer appears 63 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).