recentrer
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
recentrer
- to refocus
Conjugation
Conjugation of recentrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | recentrer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | recentrant /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | recentré /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | recentre /ʁə.sɑ̃tʁ/ |
recentres /ʁə.sɑ̃tʁ/ |
recentre /ʁə.sɑ̃tʁ/ |
recentrons /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
recentrez /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁe/ |
recentrent /ʁə.sɑ̃tʁ/ |
| imperfect | recentrais /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
recentrais /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
recentrait /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
recentrions /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
recentriez /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁi.je/ |
recentraient /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | recentrai /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁe/ |
recentras /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁa/ |
recentra /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁa/ |
recentrâmes /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁam/ |
recentrâtes /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁat/ |
recentrèrent /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | recentrerai /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁe/ |
recentreras /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁa/ |
recentrera /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁa/ |
recentrerons /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
recentrerez /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁe/ |
recentreront /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | recentrerais /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/ |
recentrerais /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/ |
recentrerait /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/ |
recentrerions /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
recentreriez /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁje/ |
recentreraient /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁə.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 | recentre /ʁə.sɑ̃tʁ/ |
recentres /ʁə.sɑ̃tʁ/ |
recentre /ʁə.sɑ̃tʁ/ |
recentrions /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
recentriez /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁi.je/ |
recentrent /ʁə.sɑ̃tʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | recentrasse /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁas/ |
recentrasses /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁas/ |
recentrât /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁa/ |
recentrassions /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
recentrassiez /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁa.sje/ |
recentrassent /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | recentre /ʁə.sɑ̃tʁ/ |
— | recentrons /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
recentrez /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁe/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “recentrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.