refuir

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

refuir

1. to run away
2. to shelter or hide

Conjugation

Conjugation of refuir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	refuir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	refuyant /ʁə.fɥi.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		refui /ʁə.fɥi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	refuis /ʁə.fɥi/	refuis /ʁə.fɥi/	refuit /ʁə.fɥi/	refuyons /ʁə.fɥi.jɔ̃/	refuyez /ʁə.fɥi.je/	refuient /ʁə.fɥi/
	imperfect	refuyais /ʁə.fɥi.jɛ/	refuyais /ʁə.fɥi.jɛ/	refuyait /ʁə.fɥi.jɛ/	refuyions /ʁə.fɥij.jɔ̃/	refuyiez /ʁə.fɥij.je/	refuyaient /ʁə.fɥi.jɛ/
	past historic2	refuis /ʁə.fɥi/	refuis /ʁə.fɥi/	refuit /ʁə.fɥi/	refuîmes /ʁə.fɥim/	refuîtes /ʁə.fɥit/	refuirent /ʁə.fɥiʁ/
	future	refuirai /ʁə.fɥi.ʁe/	refuiras /ʁə.fɥi.ʁa/	refuira /ʁə.fɥi.ʁa/	refuirons /ʁə.fɥi.ʁɔ̃/	refuirez /ʁə.fɥi.ʁe/	refuiront /ʁə.fɥi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	refuirais /ʁə.fɥi.ʁɛ/	refuirais /ʁə.fɥi.ʁɛ/	refuirait /ʁə.fɥi.ʁɛ/	refuirions /ʁə.fɥi.ʁjɔ̃/	refuiriez /ʁə.fɥi.ʁje/	refuiraient /ʁə.fɥi.ʁɛ/
(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	refuie /ʁə.fɥi/	refuies /ʁə.fɥi/	refuie /ʁə.fɥi/	refuyions /ʁə.fɥij.jɔ̃/	refuyiez /ʁə.fɥij.je/	refuient /ʁə.fɥi/
	imperfect2	refuisse /ʁə.fɥis/	refuisses /ʁə.fɥis/	refuît /ʁə.fɥi/	refuissions /ʁə.fɥi.sjɔ̃/	refuissiez /ʁə.fɥi.sje/	refuissent /ʁə.fɥis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	refuis /ʁə.fɥi/	—	refuyons /ʁə.fɥi.jɔ̃/	refuyez /ʁə.fɥi.je/	—
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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “refuir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.