recharger

English

Etymology

recharge +‎ -er

Noun

recharger (plural rechargers)

1. That which recharges, especially a device for recharging an electrical item.

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French

Etymology

re- +‎ charger

Verb

recharger

1. to recharge (add more electricity to)
2. to reload (e.g. a gun)

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written recharge- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

Conjugation of recharger (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	recharger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rechargeant /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rechargé /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	recharge /ʁə.ʃaʁʒ/	recharges /ʁə.ʃaʁʒ/	recharge /ʁə.ʃaʁʒ/	rechargeons /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒɔ̃/	rechargez /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒe/	rechargent /ʁə.ʃaʁʒ/
	imperfect	rechargeais /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒɛ/	rechargeais /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒɛ/	rechargeait /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒɛ/	rechargions /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒjɔ̃/	rechargiez /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒje/	rechargeaient /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	rechargeai /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒe/	rechargeas /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒa/	rechargea /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒa/	rechargeâmes /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒam/	rechargeâtes /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒat/	rechargèrent /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒɛʁ/
	future	rechargerai /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒə.ʁe/	rechargeras /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒə.ʁa/	rechargera /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒə.ʁa/	rechargerons /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/	rechargerez /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒə.ʁe/	rechargeront /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rechargerais /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	rechargerais /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	rechargerait /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	rechargerions /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	rechargeriez /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒə.ʁje/	rechargeraient /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒə.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	recharge /ʁə.ʃaʁʒ/	recharges /ʁə.ʃaʁʒ/	recharge /ʁə.ʃaʁʒ/	rechargions /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒjɔ̃/	rechargiez /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒje/	rechargent /ʁə.ʃaʁʒ/
	imperfect2	rechargeasse /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒas/	rechargeasses /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒas/	rechargeât /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒa/	rechargeassions /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	rechargeassiez /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒa.sje/	rechargeassent /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	recharge /ʁə.ʃaʁʒ/	—	rechargeons /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒɔ̃/	rechargez /ʁə.ʃaʁ.ʒe/	—
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

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