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Je veux revoir ce film.

Je veux revoir ce film.
I want to see this film again.
From Lesson 89:Perception and belief verbs (voir, croire)·French

Questions & Answers about Je veux revoir ce film.

The lesson is about conjugating voir, but here it is revoir and it isn't conjugated. Why?
When you have two verbs back-to-back, only the first one is conjugated to match the subject (Je veux). The second verb stays in its dictionary form, the infinitive. The prefix re- just adds the meaning of "again," so the infinitive revoir simply means "to see again."
Does revoir conjugate the same way as voir?
Yes! When a prefix like re- is added to a base verb, the new verb follows the exact same conjugation pattern. If you dropped veux and wanted to say "I see this film again," you would conjugate it just like voir: Je revois ce film.
Why do we use ce for "this" instead of cet or cette?
Ce is the demonstrative adjective used for masculine singular nouns that begin with a consonant, like film. You would use cette for a feminine noun, and cet for a masculine noun that begins with a vowel or silent H (like cet acteur).
Is revoir the same word used in the farewell au revoir?
Exactly! The literal translation of au revoir is "to the seeing again." It uses the exact same infinitive verb you see in this sentence.

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