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recommencier
recommencier
Old French
Alternative forms
- recumancier (Anglo-Norman)
- recomencer (Anglo-Norman)
- recomencier
Verb
recommencier
- (transitive, intransitive) to restart
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -ier, with a palatal stem. These verbs are conjugated mostly like verbs in -er, but there is an extra i before the e of some endings. The forms that would normally end in *-c, *-cs, *-ct are modified to z, z, zt. In addition, c becomes ç before an a, o or u to keep the /ts/ sound intact. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of recommencier (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | recommencier | avoir recommencié | |||||
| gerund | en recommençant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | recommençant | ||||||
| past participle | recommencié | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | recommenz | recommences | recommence | recommençons | recommenciez | recommencent |
| imperfect | recommençoie, recommenceie, recommençoe, recommencieve | recommençoies, recommenceies, recommençoes, recommencieves | recommençoit, recommenceit, recommençot, recommencieve | recommenciiens, recommenciens | recommenciiez, recommenciez | recommençoient, recommenceient, recommençoent, recommencievent | |
| preterite | recommençai | recommenças | recommença | recommençames | recommençastes | recommencierent | |
| future | recommencerai | recommenceras | recommencera | recommencerons | recommenceroiz, recommencereiz, recommencerez | recommenceront | |
| conditional | recommenceroie, recommencereie | recommenceroies, recommencereies | recommenceroit, recommencereit | recommenceriiens, recommenceriens | recommenceriiez, recommenceriez | recommenceroient, recommencereient | |
| 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 anterior | Use the preterite 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 jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses |
present | recommenz | recommenz | recommenzt | recommençons | recommenciez | recommencent |
| imperfect | recommençasse | recommençasses | recommençast | recommencissons, recommencissiens | recommencissoiz, recommencissez, recommencissiez | recommençassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | recommence | — | recommençons | recommenciez | — | ||
Descendants
- Middle French: recommencer
- French: recommencer
References
- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (recommencier, supplement)
- recomencer on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub