récupérer
See also: recuperer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin recuperāre. Doublet of recouvrer, which was inherited.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁe/
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Verb
récupérer
- to get back, to recover, to recuperate
- to reform, to rehabilitate
- to reclaim, to recover
- to make up (e.g. time)
- to co-opt, to appropriate, to recast to serve one's own ends
- Le premier ministre a tenté de récupérer la crise, mais l'opposition a rétorqué que celle-ci s'était produite sous sa gouverne.
- The premier tried to co-opt the crisis, but the opposition retorted that it had occurred on his watch.
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written 'é') and /ɛ/ (written 'è'), with the latter being used before mute 'e'.One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written récupérer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written récupèrer-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.
Conjugation of récupérer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | récupérer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | récupérant /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | récupéré /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | récupère /ʁe.ky.pɛʁ/ | récupères /ʁe.ky.pɛʁ/ | récupère /ʁe.ky.pɛʁ/ | récupérons /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁɔ̃/ | récupérez /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁe/ | récupèrent /ʁe.ky.pɛʁ/ |
| imperfect | récupérais /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁɛ/ | récupérais /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁɛ/ | récupérait /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁɛ/ | récupérions /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁjɔ̃/ | récupériez /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁje/ | récupéraient /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | récupérai /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁe/ | récupéras /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁa/ | récupéra /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁa/ | récupérâmes /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁam/ | récupérâtes /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁat/ | récupérèrent /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | récupèrerai or récupérerai /ʁe.ky.pɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁə.ʁe/ | récupèreras or récupéreras /ʁe.ky.pɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁə.ʁa/ | récupèrera or récupérera /ʁe.ky.pɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁə.ʁa/ | récupèrerons or récupérerons /ʁe.ky.pɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | récupèrerez or récupérerez /ʁe.ky.pɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁə.ʁe/ | récupèreront or récupéreront /ʁe.ky.pɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | récupèrerais or récupérerais /ʁe.ky.pɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | récupèrerais or récupérerais /ʁe.ky.pɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | récupèrerait or récupérerait /ʁe.ky.pɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁə.ʁɛ/ | récupèrerions or récupérerions /ʁe.ky.pɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ | récupèreriez or récupéreriez /ʁe.ky.pɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ or /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁə.ʁje/ | récupèreraient or récupéreraient /ʁe.ky.pɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁə.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 | récupère /ʁe.ky.pɛʁ/ | récupères /ʁe.ky.pɛʁ/ | récupère /ʁe.ky.pɛʁ/ | récupérions /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁjɔ̃/ | récupériez /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁje/ | récupèrent /ʁe.ky.pɛʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | récupérasse /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁas/ | récupérasses /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁas/ | récupérât /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁa/ | récupérassions /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ | récupérassiez /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁa.sje/ | récupérassent /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | récupère /ʁe.ky.pɛʁ/ | — | récupérons /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁɔ̃/ | récupérez /ʁe.ky.pe.ʁe/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- récupérable
Related terms
- récupération
Descendants
- → English: recoup
- → Romanian: recupera
Further reading
- “récupérer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.