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reconnaitre
reconnaitre
See also: reconnaître
French
Verb
reconnaitre
- to recognise
Usage notes
- New spelling of reconnaître, as per the 1990 orthography reform; however, usually written in the traditional form.
Conjugation
This verb is one of a fairly small group of -re verbs, that are all conjugated the same way. They are conjugated the same as the alternative spelling, which has a circumflex over the ‘i’, except that the circumflex is dropped here.
Conjugation of reconnaitre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | reconnaitre | avoir reconnu | |||||
| gerund | en reconnaissant | en ayant reconnu | |||||
| present participle | reconnaissant /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | reconnu /ʁə.kɔ.ny/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | reconnais /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ/ |
reconnais /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ/ |
reconnait /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ/ |
reconnaissons /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɔ̃/ |
reconnaissez /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.se/ |
reconnaissent /ʁə.kɔ.nɛs/ |
| imperfect | reconnaissais /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ |
reconnaissais /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ |
reconnaissait /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ |
reconnaissions /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sjɔ̃/ |
reconnaissiez /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sje/ |
reconnaissaient /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | reconnus /ʁə.kɔ.ny/ |
reconnus /ʁə.kɔ.ny/ |
reconnut /ʁə.kɔ.ny/ |
reconnûmes /ʁə.kɔ.nym/ |
reconnûtes /ʁə.kɔ.nyt/ |
reconnurent /ʁə.kɔ.nyʁ/ |
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| future | reconnaitrai /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁe/ |
reconnaitras /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁa/ |
reconnaitra /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁa/ |
reconnaitrons /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
reconnaitrez /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁe/ |
reconnaitront /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | reconnaitrais /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ |
reconnaitrais /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ |
reconnaitrait /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ |
reconnaitrions /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
reconnaitriez /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁi.je/ |
reconnaitraient /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ |
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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 | reconnaisse /ʁə.kɔ.nɛs/ |
reconnaisses /ʁə.kɔ.nɛs/ |
reconnaisse /ʁə.kɔ.nɛs/ |
reconnaissions /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sjɔ̃/ |
reconnaissiez /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sje/ |
reconnaissent /ʁə.kɔ.nɛs/ |
| imperfect1 |
reconnusse /ʁə.kɔ.nys/ |
reconnusses /ʁə.kɔ.nys/ |
reconnût /ʁə.kɔ.ny/ |
reconnussions /ʁə.kɔ.ny.sjɔ̃/ |
reconnussiez /ʁə.kɔ.ny.sje/ |
reconnussent /ʁə.kɔ.nys/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | reconnais /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ/ |
— | reconnaissons /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɔ̃/ |
reconnaissez /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.se/ |
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