recommence

See also: recommencé

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French recommencer, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French recommencier.

Verb

recommence (third-person singular simple present recommenc, present participle ing, simple past and past participle recommenced)

1. To begin again.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 23, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs.

Translations

to begin again

• French: recommencer (fr)
• Galician: recomezar (gl)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: ricominciare (it)
• Spanish: recomenzar (es)

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French

Verb

recommence

1. first-person singular present indicative of recommencer
2. third-person singular present indicative of recommencer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of recommencer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of recommencer
5. second-person singular imperative of recommencer