recouvrir
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.ku.vʁiʁ/
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Verb
recouvrir
- to cover again or completely
- to cover up
Usage notes
- Not to be confused with recouvrer (“to recover”)
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like ouvrir and offrir. It is conjugated like a regular -er verb in the present and imperfect indicative, present subjunctive, imperative, and present participle; it is conjugated like a regular -ir verb in the infinitive, future indicative, conditional, past historic, and imperfect subjunctive; and its past participle recouvert is irregular.
Conjugation of recouvrir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | recouvrir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | recouvrant /ʁə.ku.vʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | recouvert /ʁə.ku.vɛʁ/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | recouvre /ʁə.kuvʁ/ | recouvres /ʁə.kuvʁ/ | recouvre /ʁə.kuvʁ/ | recouvrons /ʁə.ku.vʁɔ̃/ | recouvrez /ʁə.ku.vʁe/ | recouvrent /ʁə.kuvʁ/ |
| imperfect | recouvrais /ʁə.ku.vʁɛ/ | recouvrais /ʁə.ku.vʁɛ/ | recouvrait /ʁə.ku.vʁɛ/ | recouvrions /ʁə.ku.vʁi.jɔ̃/ | recouvriez /ʁə.ku.vʁi.je/ | recouvraient /ʁə.ku.vʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | recouvris /ʁə.ku.vʁi/ | recouvris /ʁə.ku.vʁi/ | recouvrit /ʁə.ku.vʁi/ | recouvrîmes /ʁə.ku.vʁim/ | recouvrîtes /ʁə.ku.vʁit/ | recouvrirent /ʁə.ku.vʁiʁ/ | |
| future | recouvrirai /ʁə.ku.vʁi.ʁe/ | recouvriras /ʁə.ku.vʁi.ʁa/ | recouvrira /ʁə.ku.vʁi.ʁa/ | recouvrirons /ʁə.ku.vʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | recouvrirez /ʁə.ku.vʁi.ʁe/ | recouvriront /ʁə.ku.vʁi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | recouvrirais /ʁə.ku.vʁi.ʁɛ/ | recouvrirais /ʁə.ku.vʁi.ʁɛ/ | recouvrirait /ʁə.ku.vʁi.ʁɛ/ | recouvririons /ʁə.ku.vʁi.ʁjɔ̃/ | recouvririez /ʁə.ku.vʁi.ʁje/ | recouvriraient /ʁə.ku.vʁi.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 | recouvre /ʁə.kuvʁ/ | recouvres /ʁə.kuvʁ/ | recouvre /ʁə.kuvʁ/ | recouvrions /ʁə.ku.vʁi.jɔ̃/ | recouvriez /ʁə.ku.vʁi.je/ | recouvrent /ʁə.kuvʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | recouvrisse /ʁə.ku.vʁis/ | recouvrisses /ʁə.ku.vʁis/ | recouvrît /ʁə.ku.vʁi/ | recouvrissions /ʁə.ku.vʁi.sjɔ̃/ | recouvrissiez /ʁə.ku.vʁi.sje/ | recouvrissent /ʁə.ku.vʁis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | recouvre /ʁə.kuvʁ/ | — | recouvrons /ʁə.ku.vʁɔ̃/ | recouvrez /ʁə.ku.vʁe/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
- couvrir
- découvrir
Further reading
- “recouvrir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.