recenser

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin recēnsēre.

Pronunciation

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Verb

recenser

1. to count
2. to census, to take a census
3. to identify

Conjugation

Conjugation of recenser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	recenser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	recensant /ʁə.sɑ̃.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		recensé /ʁə.sɑ̃.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	recense /ʁə.sɑ̃s/	recenses /ʁə.sɑ̃s/	recense /ʁə.sɑ̃s/	recensons /ʁə.sɑ̃.sɔ̃/	recensez /ʁə.sɑ̃.se/	recensent /ʁə.sɑ̃s/
	imperfect	recensais /ʁə.sɑ̃.sɛ/	recensais /ʁə.sɑ̃.sɛ/	recensait /ʁə.sɑ̃.sɛ/	recensions /ʁə.sɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	recensiez /ʁə.sɑ̃.sje/	recensaient /ʁə.sɑ̃.sɛ/
	past historic2	recensai /ʁə.sɑ̃.se/	recensas /ʁə.sɑ̃.sa/	recensa /ʁə.sɑ̃.sa/	recensâmes /ʁə.sɑ̃.sam/	recensâtes /ʁə.sɑ̃.sat/	recensèrent /ʁə.sɑ̃.sɛʁ/
	future	recenserai /ʁə.sɑ̃.sʁe/	recenseras /ʁə.sɑ̃.sʁa/	recensera /ʁə.sɑ̃.sʁa/	recenserons /ʁə.sɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/	recenserez /ʁə.sɑ̃.sʁe/	recenseront /ʁə.sɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	recenserais /ʁə.sɑ̃.sʁɛ/	recenserais /ʁə.sɑ̃.sʁɛ/	recenserait /ʁə.sɑ̃.sʁɛ/	recenserions /ʁə.sɑ̃.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	recenseriez /ʁə.sɑ̃.sə.ʁje/	recenseraient /ʁə.sɑ̃.sʁɛ/
(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	recense /ʁə.sɑ̃s/	recenses /ʁə.sɑ̃s/	recense /ʁə.sɑ̃s/	recensions /ʁə.sɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	recensiez /ʁə.sɑ̃.sje/	recensent /ʁə.sɑ̃s/
	imperfect2	recensasse /ʁə.sɑ̃.sas/	recensasses /ʁə.sɑ̃.sas/	recensât /ʁə.sɑ̃.sa/	recensassions /ʁə.sɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃/	recensassiez /ʁə.sɑ̃.sa.sje/	recensassent /ʁə.sɑ̃.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	recense /ʁə.sɑ̃s/	—	recensons /ʁə.sɑ̃.sɔ̃/	recensez /ʁə.sɑ̃.se/	—
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

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