recourir
French edit
Etymology edit
From re- + courir, with some senses from Latin recurrere. Found in Old French as recourre, recorre.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
recourir
- to run again, to race again
- (transitive with à) to resort (to thing or action); to turn (to a person)
Conjugation edit
This verb is conjugated like other regular -ir verbs, except that in the conditional and future tenses an extra 'r' is added to the end of the stem and the past participle ends in -u. All verb ending in -courir are conjugated this way.
Conjugation of recourir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | recourir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | recourant /ʁə.ku.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | recouru /ʁə.ku.ʁy/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | recours /ʁə.kuʁ/ |
recours /ʁə.kuʁ/ |
recourt /ʁə.kuʁ/ |
recourons /ʁə.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
recourez /ʁə.ku.ʁe/ |
recourent /ʁə.kuʁ/ |
| imperfect | recourais /ʁə.ku.ʁɛ/ |
recourais /ʁə.ku.ʁɛ/ |
recourait /ʁə.ku.ʁɛ/ |
recourions /ʁə.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
recouriez /ʁə.ku.ʁje/ |
recouraient /ʁə.ku.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | recourus /ʁə.ku.ʁy/ |
recourus /ʁə.ku.ʁy/ |
recourut /ʁə.ku.ʁy/ |
recourûmes /ʁə.ku.ʁym/ |
recourûtes /ʁə.ku.ʁyt/ |
recoururent /ʁə.ku.ʁyʁ/ | |
| future | recourrai /ʁə.kuʁ.ʁe/ |
recourras /ʁə.kuʁ.ʁa/ |
recourra /ʁə.kuʁ.ʁa/ |
recourrons /ʁə.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/ |
recourrez /ʁə.kuʁ.ʁe/ |
recourront /ʁə.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | recourrais /ʁə.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ |
recourrais /ʁə.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ |
recourrait /ʁə.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ |
recourrions /ʁə.kuʁ.ʁjɔ̃/ |
recourriez /ʁə.kuʁ.ʁje/ |
recourraient /ʁə.kuʁ.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 | recoure /ʁə.kuʁ/ |
recoures /ʁə.kuʁ/ |
recoure /ʁə.kuʁ/ |
recourions /ʁə.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
recouriez /ʁə.ku.ʁje/ |
recourent /ʁə.kuʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | recourusse /ʁə.ku.ʁys/ |
recourusses /ʁə.ku.ʁys/ |
recourût /ʁə.ku.ʁy/ |
recourussions /ʁə.ku.ʁy.sjɔ̃/ |
recourussiez /ʁə.ku.ʁy.sje/ |
recourussent /ʁə.ku.ʁys/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | recours /ʁə.kuʁ/ |
— | recourons /ʁə.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
recourez /ʁə.ku.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). | |||||||
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “recourir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.