reconduire
French
Etymology
re- + conduire
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥiʁ/
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Verb
reconduire
- (transitive) to renew
- (transitive) to accompany (somebody back somewhere); to take (back)
- Il a été reconduit chez lui. He was escorted back home.
Conjugation
Conjugation of reconduire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | reconduire | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | reconduisant /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | reconduit /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | reconduis /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi/ | reconduis /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi/ | reconduit /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi/ | reconduisons /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zɔ̃/ | reconduisez /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ze/ | reconduisent /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥiz/ |
imperfect | reconduisais /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zɛ/ | reconduisais /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zɛ/ | reconduisait /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zɛ/ | reconduisions /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zjɔ̃/ | reconduisiez /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zje/ | reconduisaient /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zɛ/ | |
past historic2 | reconduisis /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zi/ | reconduisis /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zi/ | reconduisit /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zi/ | reconduisîmes /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zim/ | reconduisîtes /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zit/ | reconduisirent /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ziʁ/ | |
future | reconduirai /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁe/ | reconduiras /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁa/ | reconduira /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁa/ | reconduirons /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁɔ̃/ | reconduirez /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁe/ | reconduiront /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | reconduirais /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁɛ/ | reconduirais /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁɛ/ | reconduirait /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁɛ/ | reconduirions /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁjɔ̃/ | reconduiriez /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁje/ | reconduiraient /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | reconduise /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥiz/ | reconduises /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥiz/ | reconduise /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥiz/ | reconduisions /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zjɔ̃/ | reconduisiez /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zje/ | reconduisent /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥiz/ |
imperfect2 | reconduisisse /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zis/ | reconduisisses /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zis/ | reconduisît /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zi/ | reconduisissions /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zi.sjɔ̃/ | reconduisissiez /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zi.sje/ | reconduisissent /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zis/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | reconduis /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi/ | — | reconduisons /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zɔ̃/ | reconduisez /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ze/ | — | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
- “reconduire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.