recruter

French

Etymology

From recrue.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.kʁy.te/

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Verb

recruter

1. (transitive) to recruit

   Near-synonym: embaucher

Conjugation

Conjugation of recruter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	recruter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	recrutant /ʁə.kʁy.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		recruté /ʁə.kʁy.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	recrute /ʁə.kʁyt/	recrutes /ʁə.kʁyt/	recrute /ʁə.kʁyt/	recrutons /ʁə.kʁy.tɔ̃/	recrutez /ʁə.kʁy.te/	recrutent /ʁə.kʁyt/
	imperfect	recrutais /ʁə.kʁy.tɛ/	recrutais /ʁə.kʁy.tɛ/	recrutait /ʁə.kʁy.tɛ/	recrutions /ʁə.kʁy.tjɔ̃/	recrutiez /ʁə.kʁy.tje/	recrutaient /ʁə.kʁy.tɛ/
	past historic2	recrutai /ʁə.kʁy.te/	recrutas /ʁə.kʁy.ta/	recruta /ʁə.kʁy.ta/	recrutâmes /ʁə.kʁy.tam/	recrutâtes /ʁə.kʁy.tat/	recrutèrent /ʁə.kʁy.tɛʁ/
	future	recruterai /ʁə.kʁy.tʁe/	recruteras /ʁə.kʁy.tʁa/	recrutera /ʁə.kʁy.tʁa/	recruterons /ʁə.kʁy.tʁɔ̃/	recruterez /ʁə.kʁy.tʁe/	recruteront /ʁə.kʁy.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	recruterais /ʁə.kʁy.tʁɛ/	recruterais /ʁə.kʁy.tʁɛ/	recruterait /ʁə.kʁy.tʁɛ/	recruterions /ʁə.kʁy.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	recruteriez /ʁə.kʁy.tə.ʁje/	recruteraient /ʁə.kʁy.tʁɛ/
(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	recrute /ʁə.kʁyt/	recrutes /ʁə.kʁyt/	recrute /ʁə.kʁyt/	recrutions /ʁə.kʁy.tjɔ̃/	recrutiez /ʁə.kʁy.tje/	recrutent /ʁə.kʁyt/
	imperfect2	recrutasse /ʁə.kʁy.tas/	recrutasses /ʁə.kʁy.tas/	recrutât /ʁə.kʁy.ta/	recrutassions /ʁə.kʁy.ta.sjɔ̃/	recrutassiez /ʁə.kʁy.ta.sje/	recrutassent /ʁə.kʁy.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	recrute /ʁə.kʁyt/	—	recrutons /ʁə.kʁy.tɔ̃/	recrutez /ʁə.kʁy.te/	—
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).

Derived terms

• recruteur

Descendants

• → Catalan: reclutar
• → Dutch: rekruteren
• → Romanian: recruta
• → Spanish: reclutar

Further reading

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