Regrossissons - do t understand how I’m supposed to know about the prefix

Helen O.A2Kwiziq community member

I’m not familiar with the rule of ‘re’ bring added to ‘grossir’ in order to say someone is doing something again. Is this a general rule?

Asked 2 weeks ago

Chris W.C1 Kwiziq Q&A super contributor Correct answer

Yes, prefixing a verb with re- changes its meaning to doing the action again:

partir -- repartir (to leave again)
faire -- refaire (to do again)
voir -- revoir (to watch again)
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Actually, in English this works just the same:

to do -- to redo
to make -- to remake
to match -- to rematch

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Like02 weeks ago

I’m not familiar with the rule of ‘re’ bring added to ‘grossir’ in order to say someone is doing something again. Is this a general rule?

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