resumer

Resumer is the unaccented variant of the French verb résumer, used in English texts and in contexts where diacritics are often omitted. The core meaning in French is to summarize or to restate briefly, typically for the purpose of recounting the main points of a text or speech.

In French, résumer is an infinitive verb derived from the concept of presenting a brief recap. The related noun résumé, written with acute accents, means a concise summary or digest of a text. The noun résumé in French is distinct from the English word resume, which refers to a CV in modern usage and is often spelled without accents. The English verb resume, meaning to begin again after an interruption, is etymologically related but used differently in English and is not a direct translation of résumer.

Conjugation in French follows standard -er verb patterns. The present tense forms are je résume, tu résumes, il résume, nous résumons, vous résumez, ils résument. The present participle is résumant, and the past participle is résumé. When spelled without diacritics as resumer, the word may appear in bilingual texts or in software and databases that omit accents; pronunciation and meaning remain aligned with the accented form in French.

Usage notes: in English contexts, avoid confusion by using summarize or summary for French content, and resume or résumé depending on whether you mean to continue after interruption (resume) or a CV (résumé in many regions, résumé in others). In French language work, use résumer for the verb and résumé for the noun.