reconduire

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ conduire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥiʁ/

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Verb

reconduire

1. (transitive) to renew
2. (transitive) to accompany (somebody back somewhere); to take (back)

   Il a été reconduit chez lui. He was escorted back home.

Conjugation

Conjugation of reconduire (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	reconduire
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	reconduisant /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		reconduit /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	reconduis /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi/	reconduis /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi/	reconduit /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi/	reconduisons /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zɔ̃/	reconduisez /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ze/	reconduisent /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥiz/
	imperfect	reconduisais /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zɛ/	reconduisais /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zɛ/	reconduisait /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zɛ/	reconduisions /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zjɔ̃/	reconduisiez /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zje/	reconduisaient /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zɛ/
	past historic2	reconduisis /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zi/	reconduisis /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zi/	reconduisit /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zi/	reconduisîmes /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zim/	reconduisîtes /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zit/	reconduisirent /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ziʁ/
	future	reconduirai /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁe/	reconduiras /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁa/	reconduira /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁa/	reconduirons /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁɔ̃/	reconduirez /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁe/	reconduiront /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	reconduirais /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁɛ/	reconduirais /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁɛ/	reconduirait /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁɛ/	reconduirions /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁjɔ̃/	reconduiriez /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.ʁje/	reconduiraient /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.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	reconduise /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥiz/	reconduises /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥiz/	reconduise /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥiz/	reconduisions /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zjɔ̃/	reconduisiez /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zje/	reconduisent /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥiz/
	imperfect2	reconduisisse /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zis/	reconduisisses /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zis/	reconduisît /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zi/	reconduisissions /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zi.sjɔ̃/	reconduisissiez /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zi.sje/	reconduisissent /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	reconduis /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi/	—	reconduisons /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.zɔ̃/	reconduisez /ʁə.kɔ̃.dɥi.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).

Further reading

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