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recourir
recourir
French
Verb
recourir
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like other regular -ir verbs, except that in the conditional and future tenses an extra ‘r’ is added to the end of the stem and the past participle ends in -u. All verb ending in -courir are conjugated this way.
Conjugation of recourir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | recourir | avoir recouru | |||||
| gerund | en recourant | en ayant recouru | |||||
| present participle | recourant /ʁə.ku.ʁɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | recouru /ʁə.ku.ʁy/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | recours /ʁə.kuʁ/ |
recours /ʁə.kuʁ/ |
recourt /ʁə.kuʁ/ |
recourons /ʁə.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
recourez /ʁə.ku.ʁe/ |
recourent /ʁə.kuʁ/ |
| imperfect | recourais /ʁə.ku.ʁɛ/ |
recourais /ʁə.ku.ʁɛ/ |
recourait /ʁə.ku.ʁɛ/ |
recourions /ʁə.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
recouriez /ʁə.ku.ʁje/ |
recouraient /ʁə.ku.ʁɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | recourus /ʁə.ku.ʁy/ |
recourus /ʁə.ku.ʁy/ |
recourut /ʁə.ku.ʁy/ |
recourûmes /ʁə.ku.ʁym/ |
recourûtes /ʁə.ku.ʁyt/ |
recoururent /ʁə.ku.ʁyʁ/ |
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| future | recourrai /ʁə.ku.ʁe/ |
recourras /ʁə.ku.ʁa/ |
recourra /ʁə.ku.ʁa/ |
recourrons /ʁə.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
recourrez /ʁə.ku.ʁe/ |
recourront /ʁə.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | recourrais /ʁə.ku.ʁɛ/ |
recourrais /ʁə.ku.ʁɛ/ |
recourrait /ʁə.ku.ʁɛ/ |
recourrions /ʁə.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
recourriez /ʁə.ku.ʁje/ |
recourraient /ʁə.ku.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 | recoure /ʁə.kuʁ/ |
recoures /ʁə.kuʁ/ |
recoure /ʁə.kuʁ/ |
recourions /ʁə.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ |
recouriez /ʁə.ku.ʁje/ |
recourent /ʁə.kuʁ/ |
| imperfect1 |
recourusse /ʁə.ku.ʁys/ |
recourusses /ʁə.ku.ʁys/ |
recourût /ʁə.ku.ʁy/ |
recourussions /ʁə.ku.ʁy.sjɔ̃/ |
recourussiez /ʁə.ku.ʁy.sje/ |
recourussent /ʁə.ku.ʁys/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | recours /ʁə.kuʁ/ |
— | recourons /ʁə.ku.ʁɔ̃/ |
recourez /ʁə.ku.ʁe/ |
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