ricocher

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

ricocher

1. to ricochet (to rebound)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ricocher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ricocher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ricochant /ʁi.kɔ.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ricoché /ʁi.kɔ.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ricoche /ʁi.kɔʃ/	ricoches /ʁi.kɔʃ/	ricoche /ʁi.kɔʃ/	ricochons /ʁi.kɔ.ʃɔ̃/	ricochez /ʁi.kɔ.ʃe/	ricochent /ʁi.kɔʃ/
	imperfect	ricochais /ʁi.kɔ.ʃɛ/	ricochais /ʁi.kɔ.ʃɛ/	ricochait /ʁi.kɔ.ʃɛ/	ricochions /ʁi.kɔ.ʃjɔ̃/	ricochiez /ʁi.kɔ.ʃje/	ricochaient /ʁi.kɔ.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	ricochai /ʁi.kɔ.ʃe/	ricochas /ʁi.kɔ.ʃa/	ricocha /ʁi.kɔ.ʃa/	ricochâmes /ʁi.kɔ.ʃam/	ricochâtes /ʁi.kɔ.ʃat/	ricochèrent /ʁi.kɔ.ʃɛʁ/
	future	ricocherai /ʁi.kɔʃ.ʁe/	ricocheras /ʁi.kɔʃ.ʁa/	ricochera /ʁi.kɔʃ.ʁa/	ricocherons /ʁi.kɔʃ.ʁɔ̃/	ricocherez /ʁi.kɔʃ.ʁe/	ricocheront /ʁi.kɔʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ricocherais /ʁi.kɔʃ.ʁɛ/	ricocherais /ʁi.kɔʃ.ʁɛ/	ricocherait /ʁi.kɔʃ.ʁɛ/	ricocherions /ʁi.kɔ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	ricocheriez /ʁi.kɔ.ʃə.ʁje/	ricocheraient /ʁi.kɔʃ.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	ricoche /ʁi.kɔʃ/	ricoches /ʁi.kɔʃ/	ricoche /ʁi.kɔʃ/	ricochions /ʁi.kɔ.ʃjɔ̃/	ricochiez /ʁi.kɔ.ʃje/	ricochent /ʁi.kɔʃ/
	imperfect2	ricochasse /ʁi.kɔ.ʃas/	ricochasses /ʁi.kɔ.ʃas/	ricochât /ʁi.kɔ.ʃa/	ricochassions /ʁi.kɔ.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	ricochassiez /ʁi.kɔ.ʃa.sje/	ricochassent /ʁi.kɔ.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ricoche /ʁi.kɔʃ/	—	ricochons /ʁi.kɔ.ʃɔ̃/	ricochez /ʁi.kɔ.ʃe/	—
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

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