reconnaitre

See also: reconnaître

French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin recognōscere, present active infinitive of recognōscō.

Verb

reconnaitre

1. to recognise

Usage notes

• New spelling of reconnaître, as per the 1990 orthography reform; however, usually written in the traditional form.

Conjugation

This verb is one of a fairly small group of -re verbs that are all conjugated the same way. They are conjugated the same as the alternative spelling, which has a circumflex over the 'i', except that the circumflex is dropped here.

Conjugation of reconnaitre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	reconnaitre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	reconnaissant /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		reconnu /ʁə.kɔ.ny/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	reconnais /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ/	reconnais /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ/	reconnait /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ/	reconnaissons /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sɔ̃/	reconnaissez /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.se/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.se/	reconnaissent /ʁə.kɔ.nɛs/
	imperfect	reconnaissais /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sɛ/	reconnaissais /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sɛ/	reconnaissait /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sɛ/	reconnaissions /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sjɔ̃/	reconnaissiez /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sje/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sje/	reconnaissaient /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sɛ/
	past historic2	reconnus /ʁə.kɔ.ny/	reconnus /ʁə.kɔ.ny/	reconnut /ʁə.kɔ.ny/	reconnûmes /ʁə.kɔ.nym/	reconnûtes /ʁə.kɔ.nyt/	reconnurent /ʁə.kɔ.nyʁ/
	future	reconnaitrai /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁe/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁe/	reconnaitras /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁa/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁa/	reconnaitra /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁa/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁa/	reconnaitrons /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁɔ̃/	reconnaitrez /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁe/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁe/	reconnaitront /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	reconnaitrais /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁɛ/	reconnaitrais /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁɛ/	reconnaitrait /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁɛ/	reconnaitrions /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁi.jɔ̃/	reconnaitriez /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁi.je/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁi.je/	reconnaitraient /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁɛ/
(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	reconnaisse /ʁə.kɔ.nɛs/	reconnaisses /ʁə.kɔ.nɛs/	reconnaisse /ʁə.kɔ.nɛs/	reconnaissions /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sjɔ̃/	reconnaissiez /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sje/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sje/	reconnaissent /ʁə.kɔ.nɛs/
	imperfect2	reconnusse /ʁə.kɔ.nys/	reconnusses /ʁə.kɔ.nys/	reconnût /ʁə.kɔ.ny/	reconnussions /ʁə.kɔ.ny.sjɔ̃/	reconnussiez /ʁə.kɔ.ny.sje/	reconnussent /ʁə.kɔ.nys/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	reconnais /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ/	—	reconnaissons /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sɔ̃/	reconnaissez /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.se/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.se/	—
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

• “reconnaitre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Comment-conjuguer.fr - online conjugation of "reconnaître"

Anagrams

• encornerait, renoncerait