reconstituer
French
Etymology
From re- + constituer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.tɥe/
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Verb
reconstituer
- (transitive) to re-form (a group, association)
- (transitive) to recreate (a past time, decor, etc.)
- (transitive) to reconstruct (a crime)
- (transitive) to piece together again (something broken)
- (transitive) to build up again (e.g. reserves of something)
Conjugation
Conjugation of reconstituer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | reconstituer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | reconstituant /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.tɥɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | reconstitué /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.tɥe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | reconstitue /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.ty/ |
reconstitues /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.ty/ |
reconstitue /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.ty/ |
reconstituons /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.tɥɔ̃/ |
reconstituez /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.tɥe/ |
reconstituent /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.ty/ |
| imperfect | reconstituais /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.tɥɛ/ |
reconstituais /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.tɥɛ/ |
reconstituait /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.tɥɛ/ |
reconstituions /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.ty.jɔ̃/ |
reconstituiez /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.ty.je/ |
reconstituaient /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.tɥɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | reconstituai /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.tɥe/ |
reconstituas /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.tɥa/ |
reconstitua /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.tɥa/ |
reconstituâmes /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.tɥam/ |
reconstituâtes /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.tɥat/ |
reconstituèrent /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.tɥɛʁ/ | |
| future | reconstituerai /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁe/ |
reconstitueras /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁa/ |
reconstituera /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁa/ |
reconstituerons /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁɔ̃/ |
reconstituerez /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁe/ |
reconstitueront /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | reconstituerais /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁɛ/ |
reconstituerais /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁɛ/ |
reconstituerait /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁɛ/ |
reconstituerions /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁjɔ̃/ |
reconstitueriez /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.ty.ʁje/ |
reconstitueraient /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.ty.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 | reconstitue /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.ty/ |
reconstitues /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.ty/ |
reconstitue /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.ty/ |
reconstituions /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.ty.jɔ̃/ |
reconstituiez /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.ty.je/ |
reconstituent /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.ty/ |
| imperfect2 | reconstituasse /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.tɥas/ |
reconstituasses /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.tɥas/ |
reconstituât /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.tɥa/ |
reconstituassions /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.tɥa.sjɔ̃/ |
reconstituassiez /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.tɥa.sje/ |
reconstituassent /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.tɥas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | reconstitue /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.ty/ |
— | reconstituons /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.tɥɔ̃/ |
reconstituez /ʁə.kɔ̃s.ti.tɥe/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “reconstituer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.