recomposer

English

Etymology

recompose +‎ -er

Noun

recomposer (plural recomposers)

1. One who recomposes.
   • 2002, M. Daniel Carroll R., Amos: The Prophet and His Oracles, page 20:

     To say the recomposers of the book of Amos may not meaningfully do so is to imply that we may not.

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ composer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.ze/

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Verb

recomposer

1. to reconstruct, reconstitute

Conjugation

Conjugation of recomposer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	recomposer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	recomposant /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		recomposé /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	recompose /ʁə.kɔ̃.poz/	recomposes /ʁə.kɔ̃.poz/	recompose /ʁə.kɔ̃.poz/	recomposons /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.zɔ̃/	recomposez /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.ze/	recomposent /ʁə.kɔ̃.poz/
	imperfect	recomposais /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.zɛ/	recomposais /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.zɛ/	recomposait /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.zɛ/	recomposions /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.zjɔ̃/	recomposiez /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.zje/	recomposaient /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.zɛ/
	past historic2	recomposai /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.ze/	recomposas /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.za/	recomposa /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.za/	recomposâmes /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.zam/	recomposâtes /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.zat/	recomposèrent /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.zɛʁ/
	future	recomposerai /ʁə.kɔ̃.poz.ʁe/	recomposeras /ʁə.kɔ̃.poz.ʁa/	recomposera /ʁə.kɔ̃.poz.ʁa/	recomposerons /ʁə.kɔ̃.poz.ʁɔ̃/	recomposerez /ʁə.kɔ̃.poz.ʁe/	recomposeront /ʁə.kɔ̃.poz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	recomposerais /ʁə.kɔ̃.poz.ʁɛ/	recomposerais /ʁə.kɔ̃.poz.ʁɛ/	recomposerait /ʁə.kɔ̃.poz.ʁɛ/	recomposerions /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	recomposeriez /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.zə.ʁje/	recomposeraient /ʁə.kɔ̃.poz.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	recompose /ʁə.kɔ̃.poz/	recomposes /ʁə.kɔ̃.poz/	recompose /ʁə.kɔ̃.poz/	recomposions /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.zjɔ̃/	recomposiez /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.zje/	recomposent /ʁə.kɔ̃.poz/
	imperfect2	recomposasse /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.zas/	recomposasses /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.zas/	recomposât /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.za/	recomposassions /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.za.sjɔ̃/	recomposassiez /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.za.sje/	recomposassent /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	recompose /ʁə.kɔ̃.poz/	—	recomposons /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.zɔ̃/	recomposez /ʁə.kɔ̃.po.ze/	—
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

• famille recomposée

Further reading

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