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recoudre
recoudre
French
Verb
recoudre
- (transitive) to resew, mend (a thing torn or unraveled)
- (surgery, transitive) to stitch together, to close (an incision or wound) with surgical stitches
- (figuratively, transitive) to stitch or piece together, as memories
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like coudre. That means it is conjugated like rendre, except that its stem is recoud- in only part of the conjugation. Before endings that begin with vowels, the stem recous- (with a /-z-/ sound) is used instead; for example, nous recousons, not *nous recoudons.
Conjugation of recoudre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | recoudre | avoir recousu | |||||
| gerund | en recousant | en ayant recousu | |||||
| present participle | recousant /ʁə.ku.zɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | recousu /ʁə.ku.zy/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | recouds /ʁə.ku/ |
recouds /ʁə.ku/ |
recoud /ʁə.ku/ |
recousons /ʁə.ku.zɔ̃/ |
recousez /ʁə.ku.ze/ |
recousent /ʁə.kuz/ |
| imperfect | recousais /ʁə.ku.zɛ/ |
recousais /ʁə.ku.zɛ/ |
recousait /ʁə.ku.zɛ/ |
recousions /ʁə.ku.zjɔ̃/ |
recousiez /ʁə.ku.zje/ |
recousaient /ʁə.ku.zɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | recousis /ʁə.ku.zi/ |
recousis /ʁə.ku.zi/ |
recousit /ʁə.ku.zi/ |
recousîmes /ʁə.ku.zim/ |
recousîtes /ʁə.ku.zit/ |
recousirent /ʁə.ku.ziʁ/ |
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| future | recoudrai /ʁə.ku.dʁe/ |
recoudras /ʁə.ku.dʁa/ |
recoudra /ʁə.ku.dʁa/ |
recoudrons /ʁə.ku.dʁɔ̃/ |
recoudrez /ʁə.ku.dʁe/ |
recoudront /ʁə.ku.dʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | recoudrais /ʁə.ku.dʁɛ/ |
recoudrais /ʁə.ku.dʁɛ/ |
recoudrait /ʁə.ku.dʁɛ/ |
recoudrions /ʁə.ku.dʁi.jɔ̃/ |
recoudriez /ʁə.ku.dʁi.je/ |
recoudraient /ʁə.ku.dʁɛ/ |
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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 | recouse /ʁə.kuz/ |
recouses /ʁə.kuz/ |
recouse /ʁə.kuz/ |
recousions /ʁə.ku.zjɔ̃/ |
recousiez /ʁə.ku.zje/ |
recousent /ʁə.kuz/ |
| imperfect1 |
recousisse /ʁə.ku.zis/ |
recousisses /ʁə.ku.zis/ |
recousît /ʁə.ku.zi/ |
recousissions /ʁə.ku.zi.sjɔ̃/ |
recousissiez /ʁə.ku.zi.sje/ |
recousissent /ʁə.ku.zis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | recouds /ʁə.ku/ |
— | recousons /ʁə.ku.zɔ̃/ |
recousez /ʁə.ku.ze/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
References
- “recoudre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).