recroqueviller

French

Etymology

Alteration of recoquiller, probably after croc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.je/

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Verb

recroqueviller

1. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to curl up, to shrivel (up)

   Synonym: racrapoter

   • 2005, Charles Aznavour (lyrics and music), “Désintoxication”, in Insolitement vôtre:

     J’ai connu cette peur qui glace, recroquevillé sur mon lit / Lorsque des rats et des rapaces venaient m’attaquer chaque nuit

     I’ve known this freezing fear, curled up in my bed / While rats and raptors came to attack me each night

Conjugation

Conjugation of se recroqueviller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	se recroqueviller
	compound	s'être + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	se recroquevillant /sə ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant or étant + past participle
past participle		recroquevillé /ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	me recroqueville /mə ʁə.kʁɔk.vij/	te recroquevilles /tə ʁə.kʁɔk.vij/	se recroqueville /sə ʁə.kʁɔk.vij/	nous recroquevillons /nu ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.jɔ̃/	vous recroquevillez /vu ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.je/	se recroquevillent /sə ʁə.kʁɔk.vij/
	imperfect	me recroquevillais /mə ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.jɛ/	te recroquevillais /tə ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.jɛ/	se recroquevillait /sə ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.jɛ/	nous recroquevillions /nu ʁə.kʁɔk.vij.jɔ̃/	vous recroquevilliez /vu ʁə.kʁɔk.vij.je/	se recroquevillaient /sə ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.jɛ/
	past historic2	me recroquevillai /mə ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.je/	te recroquevillas /tə ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.ja/	se recroquevilla /sə ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.ja/	nous recroquevillâmes /nu ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.jam/	vous recroquevillâtes /vu ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.jat/	se recroquevillèrent /sə ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.jɛʁ/
	future	me recroquevillerai /mə ʁə.kʁɔk.vij.ʁe/	te recroquevilleras /tə ʁə.kʁɔk.vij.ʁa/	se recroquevillera /sə ʁə.kʁɔk.vij.ʁa/	nous recroquevillerons /nu ʁə.kʁɔk.vij.ʁɔ̃/	vous recroquevillerez /vu ʁə.kʁɔk.vij.ʁe/	se recroquevilleront /sə ʁə.kʁɔk.vij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	me recroquevillerais /mə ʁə.kʁɔk.vij.ʁɛ/	te recroquevillerais /tə ʁə.kʁɔk.vij.ʁɛ/	se recroquevillerait /sə ʁə.kʁɔk.vij.ʁɛ/	nous recroquevillerions /nu ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	vous recroquevilleriez /vu ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.jə.ʁje/	se recroquevilleraient /sə ʁə.kʁɔk.vij.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of s'être + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of s'être + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of s'être + past participle
	future perfect	future of s'être + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of s'être + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	me recroqueville /mə ʁə.kʁɔk.vij/	te recroquevilles /tə ʁə.kʁɔk.vij/	se recroqueville /sə ʁə.kʁɔk.vij/	nous recroquevillions /nu ʁə.kʁɔk.vij.jɔ̃/	vous recroquevilliez /vu ʁə.kʁɔk.vij.je/	se recroquevillent /sə ʁə.kʁɔk.vij/
	imperfect2	me recroquevillasse /mə ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.jas/	te recroquevillasses /tə ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.jas/	se recroquevillât /sə ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.ja/	nous recroquevillassions /nu ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.ja.sjɔ̃/	vous recroquevillassiez /vu ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.ja.sje/	se recroquevillassent /sə ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of s'être + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of s'être + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	recroqueville-toi /ʁə.kʁɔk.vij.twa/	—	recroquevillons-nous /ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.jɔ̃.nu/	recroquevillez-vous /ʁə.kʁɔk.vi.je.vu/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of s'être + past participle	—	simple imperative of s'être + past participle	simple imperative of s'être + 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

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