rencogner

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲe/

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Verb

rencogner

1. (transitive) to corner

Conjugation

Conjugation of rencogner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rencogner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rencognant /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rencogné /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rencogne /ʁɑ̃.kɔɲ/	rencognes /ʁɑ̃.kɔɲ/	rencogne /ʁɑ̃.kɔɲ/	rencognons /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲɔ̃/	rencognez /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲe/	rencognent /ʁɑ̃.kɔɲ/
	imperfect	rencognais /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲɛ/	rencognais /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲɛ/	rencognait /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲɛ/	rencognions /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲjɔ̃/	rencogniez /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲje/	rencognaient /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲɛ/
	past historic2	rencognai /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲe/	rencognas /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲa/	rencogna /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲa/	rencognâmes /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲam/	rencognâtes /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲat/	rencognèrent /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲɛʁ/
	future	rencognerai /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲə.ʁe/	rencogneras /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲə.ʁa/	rencognera /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲə.ʁa/	rencognerons /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/	rencognerez /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲə.ʁe/	rencogneront /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rencognerais /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲə.ʁɛ/	rencognerais /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲə.ʁɛ/	rencognerait /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲə.ʁɛ/	rencognerions /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/	rencogneriez /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲə.ʁje/	rencogneraient /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲə.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	rencogne /ʁɑ̃.kɔɲ/	rencognes /ʁɑ̃.kɔɲ/	rencogne /ʁɑ̃.kɔɲ/	rencognions /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲjɔ̃/	rencogniez /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲje/	rencognent /ʁɑ̃.kɔɲ/
	imperfect2	rencognasse /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲas/	rencognasses /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲas/	rencognât /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲa/	rencognassions /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲa.sjɔ̃/	rencognassiez /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲa.sje/	rencognassent /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rencogne /ʁɑ̃.kɔɲ/	—	rencognons /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲɔ̃/	rencognez /ʁɑ̃.kɔ.ɲe/	—
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

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