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rechigner
rechigner
French
Verb
rechigner
- (intransitive) to display reluctance in doing something
- L'été, nos enfants rechignent à faire leurs devoirs de vacances. ― In the summer, our children are reluctant to do their vacation homework.
Conjugation
Conjugation of rechigner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | rechigner | avoir rechigné | |||||
| gerund | en rechignant | en ayant rechigné | |||||
| present participle | rechignant /ʁə.ʃi.ɲɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | rechigné /ʁə.ʃi.ɲe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | rechigne /ʁə.ʃiɲ/ |
rechignes /ʁə.ʃiɲ/ |
rechigne /ʁə.ʃiɲ/ |
rechignons /ʁə.ʃi.ɲɔ̃/ |
rechignez /ʁə.ʃi.ɲe/ |
rechignent /ʁə.ʃiɲ/ |
| imperfect | rechignais /ʁə.ʃi.ɲɛ/ |
rechignais /ʁə.ʃi.ɲɛ/ |
rechignait /ʁə.ʃi.ɲɛ/ |
rechignions /ʁə.ʃi.ɲjɔ̃/ |
rechigniez /ʁə.ʃi.ɲje/ |
rechignaient /ʁə.ʃi.ɲɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | rechignai /ʁə.ʃi.ɲe/ |
rechignas /ʁə.ʃi.ɲa/ |
rechigna /ʁə.ʃi.ɲa/ |
rechignâmes /ʁə.ʃi.ɲam/ |
rechignâtes /ʁə.ʃi.ɲat/ |
rechignèrent /ʁə.ʃi.ɲɛʁ/ |
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| future | rechignerai /ʁə.ʃiɲ.ʁe/ |
rechigneras /ʁə.ʃiɲ.ʁa/ |
rechignera /ʁə.ʃiɲ.ʁa/ |
rechignerons /ʁə.ʃiɲ.ʁɔ̃/ |
rechignerez /ʁə.ʃiɲ.ʁe/ |
rechigneront /ʁə.ʃiɲ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | rechignerais /ʁə.ʃiɲ.ʁɛ/ |
rechignerais /ʁə.ʃiɲ.ʁɛ/ |
rechignerait /ʁə.ʃiɲ.ʁɛ/ |
rechignerions /ʁə.ʃi.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rechigneriez /ʁə.ʃi.ɲə.ʁje/ |
rechigneraient /ʁə.ʃiɲ.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | rechigne /ʁə.ʃiɲ/ |
rechignes /ʁə.ʃiɲ/ |
rechigne /ʁə.ʃiɲ/ |
rechignions /ʁə.ʃi.ɲjɔ̃/ |
rechigniez /ʁə.ʃi.ɲje/ |
rechignent /ʁə.ʃiɲ/ |
| imperfect1 |
rechignasse /ʁə.ʃi.ɲas/ |
rechignasses /ʁə.ʃi.ɲas/ |
rechignât /ʁə.ʃi.ɲa/ |
rechignassions /ʁə.ʃi.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ |
rechignassiez /ʁə.ʃi.ɲa.sje/ |
rechignassent /ʁə.ʃi.ɲas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | rechigne /ʁə.ʃiɲ/ |
— | rechignons /ʁə.ʃi.ɲɔ̃/ |
rechignez /ʁə.ʃi.ɲe/ |
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