recompter

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ compter.

Pronunciation

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Verb

recompter

1. to recount (count again)

Conjugation

Conjugation of recompter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	recompter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	recomptant /ʁə.kɔ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		recompté /ʁə.kɔ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	recompte /ʁə.kɔ̃t/	recomptes /ʁə.kɔ̃t/	recompte /ʁə.kɔ̃t/	recomptons /ʁə.kɔ̃.tɔ̃/	recomptez /ʁə.kɔ̃.te/	recomptent /ʁə.kɔ̃t/
	imperfect	recomptais /ʁə.kɔ̃.tɛ/	recomptais /ʁə.kɔ̃.tɛ/	recomptait /ʁə.kɔ̃.tɛ/	recomptions /ʁə.kɔ̃.tjɔ̃/	recomptiez /ʁə.kɔ̃.tje/	recomptaient /ʁə.kɔ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	recomptai /ʁə.kɔ̃.te/	recomptas /ʁə.kɔ̃.ta/	recompta /ʁə.kɔ̃.ta/	recomptâmes /ʁə.kɔ̃.tam/	recomptâtes /ʁə.kɔ̃.tat/	recomptèrent /ʁə.kɔ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	recompterai /ʁə.kɔ̃.tʁe/	recompteras /ʁə.kɔ̃.tʁa/	recomptera /ʁə.kɔ̃.tʁa/	recompterons /ʁə.kɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/	recompterez /ʁə.kɔ̃.tʁe/	recompteront /ʁə.kɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	recompterais /ʁə.kɔ̃.tʁɛ/	recompterais /ʁə.kɔ̃.tʁɛ/	recompterait /ʁə.kɔ̃.tʁɛ/	recompterions /ʁə.kɔ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	recompteriez /ʁə.kɔ̃.tə.ʁje/	recompteraient /ʁə.kɔ̃.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	recompte /ʁə.kɔ̃t/	recomptes /ʁə.kɔ̃t/	recompte /ʁə.kɔ̃t/	recomptions /ʁə.kɔ̃.tjɔ̃/	recomptiez /ʁə.kɔ̃.tje/	recomptent /ʁə.kɔ̃t/
	imperfect2	recomptasse /ʁə.kɔ̃.tas/	recomptasses /ʁə.kɔ̃.tas/	recomptât /ʁə.kɔ̃.ta/	recomptassions /ʁə.kɔ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	recomptassiez /ʁə.kɔ̃.ta.sje/	recomptassent /ʁə.kɔ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	recompte /ʁə.kɔ̃t/	—	recomptons /ʁə.kɔ̃.tɔ̃/	recomptez /ʁə.kɔ̃.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).

Further reading

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