restaurer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rēstaurāre via Old French restorer. The sequence -au- replaced the -o- to reflect the original Latin spelling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁe/, /ʁɛs.to.ʁe/

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Verb

restaurer

1. to restore
2. (computing) to restore
3. (reflexive) to dine, to eat

Conjugation

Conjugation of restaurer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	restaurer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	restaurant /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		restauré /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	restaure /ʁɛs.tɔʁ/	restaures /ʁɛs.tɔʁ/	restaure /ʁɛs.tɔʁ/	restaurons /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɔ̃/	restaurez /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁe/	restaurent /ʁɛs.tɔʁ/
	imperfect	restaurais /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɛ/	restaurais /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɛ/	restaurait /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɛ/	restaurions /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁjɔ̃/	restauriez /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁje/	restauraient /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	restaurai /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁe/	restauras /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁa/	restaura /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁa/	restaurâmes /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁam/	restaurâtes /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁat/	restaurèrent /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɛʁ/
	future	restaurerai /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁə.ʁe/	restaureras /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁə.ʁa/	restaurera /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁə.ʁa/	restaurerons /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	restaurerez /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁə.ʁe/	restaureront /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	restaurerais /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	restaurerais /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	restaurerait /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁə.ʁɛ/	restaurerions /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	restaureriez /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁə.ʁje/	restaureraient /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁə.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	restaure /ʁɛs.tɔʁ/	restaures /ʁɛs.tɔʁ/	restaure /ʁɛs.tɔʁ/	restaurions /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁjɔ̃/	restauriez /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁje/	restaurent /ʁɛs.tɔʁ/
	imperfect2	restaurasse /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁas/	restaurasses /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁas/	restaurât /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁa/	restaurassions /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	restaurassiez /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁa.sje/	restaurassent /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	restaure /ʁɛs.tɔʁ/	—	restaurons /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁɔ̃/	restaurez /ʁɛs.tɔ.ʁe/	—
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).

Derived terms

• restaurant
• restaurateur
• restauratif
• restauration

Further reading

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

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [rɛsˈtau̯.rɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [resˈtaːu̯.rer]

Verb

restaurer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of restaurō

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

restaurer

1. imperative of restaurere