rechuter

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ chuter.

Pronunciation

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Verb

rechuter

1. to relapse, to recur

Conjugation

Conjugation of rechuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rechuter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rechutant /ʁə.ʃy.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rechuté /ʁə.ʃy.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rechute /ʁə.ʃyt/	rechutes /ʁə.ʃyt/	rechute /ʁə.ʃyt/	rechutons /ʁə.ʃy.tɔ̃/	rechutez /ʁə.ʃy.te/	rechutent /ʁə.ʃyt/
	imperfect	rechutais /ʁə.ʃy.tɛ/	rechutais /ʁə.ʃy.tɛ/	rechutait /ʁə.ʃy.tɛ/	rechutions /ʁə.ʃy.tjɔ̃/	rechutiez /ʁə.ʃy.tje/	rechutaient /ʁə.ʃy.tɛ/
	past historic2	rechutai /ʁə.ʃy.te/	rechutas /ʁə.ʃy.ta/	rechuta /ʁə.ʃy.ta/	rechutâmes /ʁə.ʃy.tam/	rechutâtes /ʁə.ʃy.tat/	rechutèrent /ʁə.ʃy.tɛʁ/
	future	rechuterai /ʁə.ʃy.tʁe/	rechuteras /ʁə.ʃy.tʁa/	rechutera /ʁə.ʃy.tʁa/	rechuterons /ʁə.ʃy.tʁɔ̃/	rechuterez /ʁə.ʃy.tʁe/	rechuteront /ʁə.ʃy.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rechuterais /ʁə.ʃy.tʁɛ/	rechuterais /ʁə.ʃy.tʁɛ/	rechuterait /ʁə.ʃy.tʁɛ/	rechuterions /ʁə.ʃy.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	rechuteriez /ʁə.ʃy.tə.ʁje/	rechuteraient /ʁə.ʃy.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	rechute /ʁə.ʃyt/	rechutes /ʁə.ʃyt/	rechute /ʁə.ʃyt/	rechutions /ʁə.ʃy.tjɔ̃/	rechutiez /ʁə.ʃy.tje/	rechutent /ʁə.ʃyt/
	imperfect2	rechutasse /ʁə.ʃy.tas/	rechutasses /ʁə.ʃy.tas/	rechutât /ʁə.ʃy.ta/	rechutassions /ʁə.ʃy.ta.sjɔ̃/	rechutassiez /ʁə.ʃy.ta.sje/	rechutassent /ʁə.ʃy.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rechute /ʁə.ʃyt/	—	rechutons /ʁə.ʃy.tɔ̃/	rechutez /ʁə.ʃy.te/	—
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).

Related terms

• rechute

Further reading

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