recaler

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ caler.

Verb

recaler

1. to fail (a test)

Conjugation

Conjugation of recaler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	recaler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	recalant /ʁə.ka.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		recalé /ʁə.ka.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	recale /ʁə.kal/	recales /ʁə.kal/	recale /ʁə.kal/	recalons /ʁə.ka.lɔ̃/	recalez /ʁə.ka.le/	recalent /ʁə.kal/
	imperfect	recalais /ʁə.ka.lɛ/	recalais /ʁə.ka.lɛ/	recalait /ʁə.ka.lɛ/	recalions /ʁə.ka.ljɔ̃/	recaliez /ʁə.ka.lje/	recalaient /ʁə.ka.lɛ/
	past historic2	recalai /ʁə.ka.le/	recalas /ʁə.ka.la/	recala /ʁə.ka.la/	recalâmes /ʁə.ka.lam/	recalâtes /ʁə.ka.lat/	recalèrent /ʁə.ka.lɛʁ/
	future	recalerai /ʁə.kal.ʁe/	recaleras /ʁə.kal.ʁa/	recalera /ʁə.kal.ʁa/	recalerons /ʁə.kal.ʁɔ̃/	recalerez /ʁə.kal.ʁe/	recaleront /ʁə.kal.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	recalerais /ʁə.kal.ʁɛ/	recalerais /ʁə.kal.ʁɛ/	recalerait /ʁə.kal.ʁɛ/	recalerions /ʁə.ka.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	recaleriez /ʁə.ka.lə.ʁje/	recaleraient /ʁə.kal.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	recale /ʁə.kal/	recales /ʁə.kal/	recale /ʁə.kal/	recalions /ʁə.ka.ljɔ̃/	recaliez /ʁə.ka.lje/	recalent /ʁə.kal/
	imperfect2	recalasse /ʁə.ka.las/	recalasses /ʁə.ka.las/	recalât /ʁə.ka.la/	recalassions /ʁə.ka.la.sjɔ̃/	recalassiez /ʁə.ka.la.sje/	recalassent /ʁə.ka.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	recale /ʁə.kal/	—	recalons /ʁə.ka.lɔ̃/	recalez /ʁə.ka.le/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “recaler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.