reconstruire

See also: reconstruiré

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥiʁ/

Verb

reconstruire

1. rebuild (to build again)

Conjugation

Conjugation of reconstruire (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	reconstruire
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	reconstruisant /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		reconstruit /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	reconstruis /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi/	reconstruis /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi/	reconstruit /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi/	reconstruisons /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zɔ̃/	reconstruisez /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.ze/	reconstruisent /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥiz/
	imperfect	reconstruisais /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zɛ/	reconstruisais /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zɛ/	reconstruisait /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zɛ/	reconstruisions /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zjɔ̃/	reconstruisiez /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zje/	reconstruisaient /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zɛ/
	past historic2	reconstruisis /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zi/	reconstruisis /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zi/	reconstruisit /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zi/	reconstruisîmes /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zim/	reconstruisîtes /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zit/	reconstruisirent /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.ziʁ/
	future	reconstruirai /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.ʁe/	reconstruiras /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.ʁa/	reconstruira /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.ʁa/	reconstruirons /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.ʁɔ̃/	reconstruirez /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.ʁe/	reconstruiront /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	reconstruirais /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.ʁɛ/	reconstruirais /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.ʁɛ/	reconstruirait /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.ʁɛ/	reconstruirions /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.ʁjɔ̃/	reconstruiriez /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.ʁje/	reconstruiraient /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.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	reconstruise /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥiz/	reconstruises /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥiz/	reconstruise /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥiz/	reconstruisions /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zjɔ̃/	reconstruisiez /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zje/	reconstruisent /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥiz/
	imperfect2	reconstruisisse /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zis/	reconstruisisses /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zis/	reconstruisît /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zi/	reconstruisissions /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zi.sjɔ̃/	reconstruisissiez /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zi.sje/	reconstruisissent /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	reconstruis /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi/	—	reconstruisons /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.zɔ̃/	reconstruisez /ʁə.kɔ̃s.tʁɥi.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).

Related terms

• reconstruction

Descendants

• German: rekonstruieren

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• recruterions, résurrection