recoudre
French
Verb
recoudre
- (transitive) to resew, mend (a thing torn or unraveled)
- (surgery, transitive) to stitch together, to close (an incision or wound) with surgical stitches
- (figuratively, transitive) to stitch or piece together, as memories
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like coudre. That means it is conjugated like rendre, except that its stem is recoud- in only part of the conjugation. Before endings that begin with vowels, the stem recous- (with a /-z-/ sound) is used instead; for example, nous recousons, not *nous recoudons.
Conjugation of recoudre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | recoudre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | recousant /ʁə.ku.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | recousu /ʁə.ku.zy/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | recouds /ʁə.ku/ |
recouds /ʁə.ku/ |
recoud /ʁə.ku/ |
recousons /ʁə.ku.zɔ̃/ |
recousez /ʁə.ku.ze/ |
recousent /ʁə.kuz/ |
| imperfect | recousais /ʁə.ku.zɛ/ |
recousais /ʁə.ku.zɛ/ |
recousait /ʁə.ku.zɛ/ |
recousions /ʁə.ku.zjɔ̃/ |
recousiez /ʁə.ku.zje/ |
recousaient /ʁə.ku.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | recousis /ʁə.ku.zi/ |
recousis /ʁə.ku.zi/ |
recousit /ʁə.ku.zi/ |
recousîmes /ʁə.ku.zim/ |
recousîtes /ʁə.ku.zit/ |
recousirent /ʁə.ku.ziʁ/ | |
| future | recoudrai /ʁə.ku.dʁe/ |
recoudras /ʁə.ku.dʁa/ |
recoudra /ʁə.ku.dʁa/ |
recoudrons /ʁə.ku.dʁɔ̃/ |
recoudrez /ʁə.ku.dʁe/ |
recoudront /ʁə.ku.dʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | recoudrais /ʁə.ku.dʁɛ/ |
recoudrais /ʁə.ku.dʁɛ/ |
recoudrait /ʁə.ku.dʁɛ/ |
recoudrions /ʁə.ku.dʁi.jɔ̃/ |
recoudriez /ʁə.ku.dʁi.je/ |
recoudraient /ʁə.ku.dʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | recouse /ʁə.kuz/ |
recouses /ʁə.kuz/ |
recouse /ʁə.kuz/ |
recousions /ʁə.ku.zjɔ̃/ |
recousiez /ʁə.ku.zje/ |
recousent /ʁə.kuz/ |
| imperfect2 | recousisse /ʁə.ku.zis/ |
recousisses /ʁə.ku.zis/ |
recousît /ʁə.ku.zi/ |
recousissions /ʁə.ku.zi.sjɔ̃/ |
recousissiez /ʁə.ku.zi.sje/ |
recousissent /ʁə.ku.zis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | recouds /ʁə.ku/ |
— | recousons /ʁə.ku.zɔ̃/ |
recousez /ʁə.ku.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
References
- “recoudre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading
- “recoudre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.