rechigner
French
Etymology
See rèche (“indocile, restive”), from German resche.
Pronunciation
Verb
rechigner
- (intransitive, colloquial) to display reluctance in doing something
- Synonym: renâcler
- L’été, nos enfants rechignent à faire leurs devoirs de vacances.
- In the summer, our children are reluctant to do their vacation homework.
- 2016, Mathilde Ramadier, Alberto Madrigal, Berlin 2.0, Futuropolis, →ISBN, page 41:
- Eh bien, il a beau avoir beaucoup de qualités… Il a rechigné à mettre une capote, et j’ai craqué…
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of rechigner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rechigner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rechignant /ʁə.ʃi.ɲɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rechigné /ʁə.ʃi.ɲe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rechigne /ʁə.ʃiɲ/ |
rechignes /ʁə.ʃiɲ/ |
rechigne /ʁə.ʃiɲ/ |
rechignons /ʁə.ʃi.ɲɔ̃/ |
rechignez /ʁə.ʃi.ɲe/ |
rechignent /ʁə.ʃiɲ/ |
| imperfect | rechignais /ʁə.ʃi.ɲɛ/ |
rechignais /ʁə.ʃi.ɲɛ/ |
rechignait /ʁə.ʃi.ɲɛ/ |
rechignions /ʁə.ʃi.ɲjɔ̃/ |
rechigniez /ʁə.ʃi.ɲje/ |
rechignaient /ʁə.ʃi.ɲɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rechignai /ʁə.ʃi.ɲe/ |
rechignas /ʁə.ʃi.ɲa/ |
rechigna /ʁə.ʃi.ɲa/ |
rechignâmes /ʁə.ʃi.ɲam/ |
rechignâtes /ʁə.ʃi.ɲat/ |
rechignèrent /ʁə.ʃi.ɲɛʁ/ | |
| future | rechignerai /ʁə.ʃi.ɲə.ʁe/ |
rechigneras /ʁə.ʃi.ɲə.ʁa/ |
rechignera /ʁə.ʃi.ɲə.ʁa/ |
rechignerons /ʁə.ʃi.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ |
rechignerez /ʁə.ʃi.ɲə.ʁe/ |
rechigneront /ʁə.ʃi.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rechignerais /ʁə.ʃi.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
rechignerais /ʁə.ʃi.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
rechignerait /ʁə.ʃi.ɲə.ʁɛ/ |
rechignerions /ʁə.ʃi.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rechigneriez /ʁə.ʃi.ɲə.ʁje/ |
rechigneraient /ʁə.ʃi.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 | rechigne /ʁə.ʃiɲ/ |
rechignes /ʁə.ʃiɲ/ |
rechigne /ʁə.ʃiɲ/ |
rechignions /ʁə.ʃi.ɲjɔ̃/ |
rechigniez /ʁə.ʃi.ɲje/ |
rechignent /ʁə.ʃiɲ/ |
| imperfect2 | rechignasse /ʁə.ʃi.ɲas/ |
rechignasses /ʁə.ʃi.ɲas/ |
rechignât /ʁə.ʃi.ɲa/ |
rechignassions /ʁə.ʃi.ɲa.sjɔ̃/ |
rechignassiez /ʁə.ʃi.ɲa.sje/ |
rechignassent /ʁə.ʃi.ɲas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rechigne /ʁə.ʃiɲ/ |
— | rechignons /ʁə.ʃi.ɲɔ̃/ |
rechignez /ʁə.ʃi.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “rechigner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.