reconnaitre
See also: reconnaître
French
Etymology
From Latin recognōscere, present active infinitive of recognōscō.
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)
| present participle | reconnaissant /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | reconnu /ʁə.kɔ.ny/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | reconnaitre | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | reconnaissant /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (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/ | |
| past historic2 | reconnus /ʁə.kɔ.ny/ | reconnus /ʁə.kɔ.ny/ | reconnut /ʁə.kɔ.ny/ | reconnûmes /ʁə.kɔ.nym/ | reconnûtes /ʁə.kɔ.nyt/ | reconnurent /ʁə.kɔ.nyʁ/ | |
| 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/ | |
| 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/ | |
| (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 | 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/ |
| imperfect2 | 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/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | reconnais /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ/ | — | reconnaissons /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɔ̃/ | reconnaissez /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.se/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “reconnaitre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
- Comment-conjuguer.fr - online conjugation of "reconnaître"
Anagrams
- encornerait, renoncerait