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rechercher
rechercher
French
Verb
rechercher
- to search for, to look for
- to search again, to look for again
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Conjugation
Conjugation of rechercher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | rechercher | avoir recherché | |||||
| gerund | en recherchant | en ayant recherché | |||||
| present participle | recherchant /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | recherché /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | recherche /ʁə.ʃɛʁʃ/ |
recherches /ʁə.ʃɛʁʃ/ |
recherche /ʁə.ʃɛʁʃ/ |
recherchons /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃɔ̃/ |
recherchez /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃe/ |
recherchent /ʁə.ʃɛʁʃ/ |
| imperfect | recherchais /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃɛ/ |
recherchais /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃɛ/ |
recherchait /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃɛ/ |
recherchions /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃjɔ̃/ |
recherchiez /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃje/ |
recherchaient /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | recherchai /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃe/ |
recherchas /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃa/ |
rechercha /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃa/ |
recherchâmes /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃam/ |
recherchâtes /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃat/ |
recherchèrent /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃɛʁ/ |
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| future | rechercherai /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃə.ʁe/ |
rechercheras /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃə.ʁa/ |
recherchera /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃə.ʁa/ |
rechercherons /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/ |
rechercherez /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃə.ʁe/ |
rechercheront /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | rechercherais /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃə.ʁɛ/ |
rechercherais /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃə.ʁɛ/ |
rechercherait /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃə.ʁɛ/ |
rechercherions /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rechercheriez /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃə.ʁje/ |
rechercheraient /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃə.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | recherche /ʁə.ʃɛʁʃ/ |
recherches /ʁə.ʃɛʁʃ/ |
recherche /ʁə.ʃɛʁʃ/ |
recherchions /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃjɔ̃/ |
recherchiez /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃje/ |
recherchent /ʁə.ʃɛʁʃ/ |
| imperfect1 |
recherchasse /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃas/ |
recherchasses /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃas/ |
recherchât /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃa/ |
recherchassions /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
recherchassiez /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃa.sje/ |
recherchassent /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | recherche /ʁə.ʃɛʁʃ/ |
— | recherchons /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃɔ̃/ |
recherchez /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃe/ |
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