recevoir

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French recevoir, from Old French recevoir, from Vulgar Latin *recipēre, from Latin recipiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.sə.vwaʁ/

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• Rhymes: -waʁ

Verb

recevoir

1. to receive
2. to entertain (to welcome guests)

Conjugation

Conjugation of recevoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	recevoir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	recevant /ʁə.s(ə).vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		reçu /ʁə.sy/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	reçois /ʁə.swa/	reçois /ʁə.swa/	reçoit /ʁə.swa/	recevons /ʁə.s(ə).vɔ̃/	recevez /ʁə.s(ə).ve/	reçoivent /ʁə.swav/
	imperfect	recevais /ʁə.s(ə).vɛ/	recevais /ʁə.s(ə).vɛ/	recevait /ʁə.s(ə).vɛ/	recevions /ʁə.sə.vjɔ̃/	receviez /ʁə.sə.vje/	recevaient /ʁə.s(ə).vɛ/
	past historic2	reçus /ʁə.sy/	reçus /ʁə.sy/	reçut /ʁə.sy/	reçûmes /ʁə.sym/	reçûtes /ʁə.syt/	reçurent /ʁə.syʁ/
	future	recevrai /ʁə.sə.vʁe/	recevras /ʁə.sə.vʁa/	recevra /ʁə.sə.vʁa/	recevrons /ʁə.sə.vʁɔ̃/	recevrez /ʁə.sə.vʁe/	recevront /ʁə.sə.vʁɔ̃/
	conditional	recevrais /ʁə.sə.vʁɛ/	recevrais /ʁə.sə.vʁɛ/	recevrait /ʁə.sə.vʁɛ/	recevrions /ʁə.sə.vʁi.jɔ̃/	recevriez /ʁə.sə.vʁi.je/	recevraient /ʁə.sə.vʁɛ/
(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	reçoive /ʁə.swav/	reçoives /ʁə.swav/	reçoive /ʁə.swav/	recevions /ʁə.sə.vjɔ̃/	receviez /ʁə.sə.vje/	reçoivent /ʁə.swav/
	imperfect2	reçusse /ʁə.sys/	reçusses /ʁə.sys/	reçût /ʁə.sy/	reçussions /ʁə.sy.sjɔ̃/	reçussiez /ʁə.sy.sje/	reçussent /ʁə.sys/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	reçois /ʁə.swa/	—	recevons /ʁə.s(ə).vɔ̃/	recevez /ʁə.s(ə).ve/	—
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

• fin de non-recevoir
• idée reçue

 

Related terms

• réceptacle
• récepteur
• réceptif
• réception
• récipient

Further reading

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

Old French

Alternative forms

• receivre (archaic or northern)
• reçoivre

Etymology

From Latin recipere, with a change in verb class to *-ēre, but cf. the alternative forms above.

Verb

recevoir

1. receive

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem reçoiv distinct from the unstressed stem recev, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of recevoir (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		recevoir			avoir receü
gerund		en recevant			Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle
present participle		recevant
past participle		receü
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	reçoif, reçoi	reçois	reçoit	recevons	recevez	reçoivent
	imperfect	recevoie, receveie	recevoies, receveies	recevoit, receveit	receviiens, receviens	receviiez, receviez	recevoient, receveient
	preterite	reçui	receüs	reçut	receümes	receüstes	reçurent
	future	recevrai	recevras	recevra	recevrons	recevroiz, recevreiz, recevrez	recevront
	conditional	recevroie, recevreie	recevroies, recevreies	recevroit, recevreit	recevriiens, recevriens	recevriiez, recevriez	recevroient, recevreient
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 anterior	Use the preterite 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 jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	reçoive	reçoives	reçoive	recevons	recevez	reçoivent
	imperfect	receüsse	receüsses	receüst	receüssons, receüssiens	receüssoiz, receüssez, receüssiez	receüssent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	reçoif	—	recevons	recevez	—

Descendants

• Angevin: recevair
• Bourguignon: reçoire
• Champenois: reçoire
• French: recevoir

  Louisiana French: reçoir, reçoire

• Lorrain: reçure
• Norman: recheveir
• Picard: erchuvoér
• Walloon: riceure, riçure
• → Middle English: receiven
  • English: receive