raccrocher

French

Etymology

Ultimately from re- +‎ accrocher.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃe/

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• Homophones: raccrochai, raccroché, raccrochée, raccrochées, raccrochés, raccrochez

Verb

raccrocher

1. (transitive) to hang again; to hang back up
2. to hang up (end a phone call)

   Antonym: décrocher

3. (pronominal, with à) to cling (to)

Conjugation

Conjugation of raccrocher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	raccrocher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	raccrochant /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		raccroché /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	raccroche /ʁa.kʁɔʃ/	raccroches /ʁa.kʁɔʃ/	raccroche /ʁa.kʁɔʃ/	raccrochons /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃɔ̃/	raccrochez /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃe/	raccrochent /ʁa.kʁɔʃ/
	imperfect	raccrochais /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃɛ/	raccrochais /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃɛ/	raccrochait /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃɛ/	raccrochions /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃjɔ̃/	raccrochiez /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃje/	raccrochaient /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	raccrochai /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃe/	raccrochas /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃa/	raccrocha /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃa/	raccrochâmes /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃam/	raccrochâtes /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃat/	raccrochèrent /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃɛʁ/
	future	raccrocherai /ʁa.kʁɔʃ.ʁe/	raccrocheras /ʁa.kʁɔʃ.ʁa/	raccrochera /ʁa.kʁɔʃ.ʁa/	raccrocherons /ʁa.kʁɔʃ.ʁɔ̃/	raccrocherez /ʁa.kʁɔʃ.ʁe/	raccrocheront /ʁa.kʁɔʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	raccrocherais /ʁa.kʁɔʃ.ʁɛ/	raccrocherais /ʁa.kʁɔʃ.ʁɛ/	raccrocherait /ʁa.kʁɔʃ.ʁɛ/	raccrocherions /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	raccrocheriez /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃə.ʁje/	raccrocheraient /ʁa.kʁɔʃ.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	raccroche /ʁa.kʁɔʃ/	raccroches /ʁa.kʁɔʃ/	raccroche /ʁa.kʁɔʃ/	raccrochions /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃjɔ̃/	raccrochiez /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃje/	raccrochent /ʁa.kʁɔʃ/
	imperfect2	raccrochasse /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃas/	raccrochasses /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃas/	raccrochât /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃa/	raccrochassions /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	raccrochassiez /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃa.sje/	raccrochassent /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	raccroche /ʁa.kʁɔʃ/	—	raccrochons /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃɔ̃/	raccrochez /ʁa.kʁɔ.ʃe/	—
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).

Related terms

• raccrocher au nez (“to hang up (on someone)”)

Further reading

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