reconnaître
See also: reconnaitre
English
editEtymology
editFrom French reconnaître.
Verb
editreconnaître (third-person singular simple present reconnaîtres, present participle reconnaîtring, simple past and past participle reconnaîtred)
- Rare form of reconnoitre.
- 1841, [Charles Lever], Charles O’Malley, the Irish Dragoon, volume II, Dublin: William Curry, Jun. and Company; Edinburgh: Fraser and Company; London: W. S. Orr and Company, page 295:
- An officer sent forward to reconnaître, returned with the intelligence that they were British troops, for he had seen their red uniforms.
- 1841, Lord Mahon [Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope], History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (Collection of Ancient and Modern British Authors; CCCXXVI), 3rd edition, volume II, Paris: Baudry’s European Library, page 245:
- His cavalry, whom he sent out to reconnaître close to Hawley’s camp, brought word that they could see no appearance of movement.
- 1887, Edward R. Bensley, A New Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages, Paris: Garnier Brothers, […], page 98, column 3:
- To reconnaître the enemy’s camp.
- 1957, Conferência internacional dos Africanistas Ocidentais, C.C.T.A., page 213:
- […] to reconnaître the sites where the clays are to be found, through their possible relation with bauxite sediments.
- 1984, Shamanism in Eurasia, part 2, →ISBN, page 394:
- It is a well known fact that Lapps can fall into trances in order to reconnaître how things and human beings are in distant places.
- 1994, Andrea De Guttry, Lo status della nave da guerra in tempo di pace, →ISBN, page 75:
- if it is true,...., that the orders contained information concerning certain positions from which the British warships might have been fired at, it cannot be deduced therefrom that the vessels had received orders to reconnaître Albanian coastal defences
- 2008, “[Function 1: Navigation] Part B1: Course Outline and Guidance Notes”, in Officer in Charge of a Navigational Watch on a Fishing Vessel (Model Course 7.06), London: International Maritime Organization, →ISBN, page 34:
- At the same time, the rescue vessel should reconnaître the area around the wreck to see if there are any obstructions which might hamper the boat.
- 2012, Sally Spedding, Malediction, Sparkling Books, →ISBN, page 162:
- Having arrived at Libourne, instead of going straight to the Refuge as originally planned, she’d decided it was best to reconnaître the surroundings at different times of the day.
French
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French reconoistre, from Latin recognōscere.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editreconnaître
- to recognize
- to recognise (something or someone that one has encountered before)
- to acknowledge, to admit (something is true)
Conjugation
editThis verb is one of a fairly small group of -re verbs, that are all conjugated the same way. They are unlike other verb groups in that the 'i' is given a circumflex before a 't'.
Conjugation of reconnaître (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | reconnaître | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | reconnaissant /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | reconnu /ʁə.kɔ.ny/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | reconnais /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ/ |
reconnais /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ/ |
reconnaît /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ/ |
reconnaissons /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sɔ̃/ |
reconnaissez /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.se/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.se/ |
reconnaissent /ʁə.kɔ.nɛs/ |
imperfect | reconnaissais /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sɛ/ |
reconnaissais /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sɛ/ |
reconnaissait /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sɛ/ |
reconnaissions /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sjɔ̃/ |
reconnaissiez /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sje/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sje/ |
reconnaissaient /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | reconnus /ʁə.kɔ.ny/ |
reconnus /ʁə.kɔ.ny/ |
reconnut /ʁə.kɔ.ny/ |
reconnûmes /ʁə.kɔ.nym/ |
reconnûtes /ʁə.kɔ.nyt/ |
reconnurent /ʁə.kɔ.nyʁ/ | |
future | reconnaîtrai /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁe/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁe/ |
reconnaîtras /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁa/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁa/ |
reconnaîtra /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁa/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁa/ |
reconnaîtrons /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁɔ̃/ |
reconnaîtrez /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁe/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁe/ |
reconnaîtront /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | reconnaîtrais /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁɛ/ |
reconnaîtrais /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁɛ/ |
reconnaîtrait /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁɛ/ |
reconnaîtrions /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
reconnaîtriez /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁi.je/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁi.je/ |
reconnaîtraient /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.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 | reconnaisse /ʁə.kɔ.nɛs/ |
reconnaisses /ʁə.kɔ.nɛs/ |
reconnaisse /ʁə.kɔ.nɛs/ |
reconnaissions /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sjɔ̃/ |
reconnaissiez /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sje/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sje/ |
reconnaissent /ʁə.kɔ.nɛs/ |
imperfect2 | reconnusse /ʁə.kɔ.nys/ |
reconnusses /ʁə.kɔ.nys/ |
reconnût /ʁə.kɔ.ny/ |
reconnussions /ʁə.kɔ.ny.sjɔ̃/ |
reconnussiez /ʁə.kɔ.ny.sje/ |
reconnussent /ʁə.kɔ.nys/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | reconnais /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ/ |
— | reconnaissons /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sɔ̃/ |
reconnaissez /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.se/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.se/ |
— | |
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
editFurther reading
edit- “reconnaître”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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