recycler

English

Etymology

recycle +‎ -er

Noun

recycler (plural recyclers)

1. A person who recycles, or a machine used to recycle.

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French

Etymology

From re- +‎ cycler. Possibly a borrowing from English recycle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.si.kle/

Verb

recycler

1. (transitive) to recycle

Conjugation

Conjugation of recycler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	recycler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	recyclant /ʁə.si.klɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		recyclé /ʁə.si.kle/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	recycle /ʁə.sikl/	recycles /ʁə.sikl/	recycle /ʁə.sikl/	recyclons /ʁə.si.klɔ̃/	recyclez /ʁə.si.kle/	recyclent /ʁə.sikl/
	imperfect	recyclais /ʁə.si.klɛ/	recyclais /ʁə.si.klɛ/	recyclait /ʁə.si.klɛ/	recyclions /ʁə.si.kli.jɔ̃/	recycliez /ʁə.si.kli.je/	recyclaient /ʁə.si.klɛ/
	past historic2	recyclai /ʁə.si.kle/	recyclas /ʁə.si.kla/	recycla /ʁə.si.kla/	recyclâmes /ʁə.si.klam/	recyclâtes /ʁə.si.klat/	recyclèrent /ʁə.si.klɛʁ/
	future	recyclerai /ʁə.si.klə.ʁe/	recycleras /ʁə.si.klə.ʁa/	recyclera /ʁə.si.klə.ʁa/	recyclerons /ʁə.si.klə.ʁɔ̃/	recyclerez /ʁə.si.klə.ʁe/	recycleront /ʁə.si.klə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	recyclerais /ʁə.si.klə.ʁɛ/	recyclerais /ʁə.si.klə.ʁɛ/	recyclerait /ʁə.si.klə.ʁɛ/	recyclerions /ʁə.si.klə.ʁjɔ̃/	recycleriez /ʁə.si.klə.ʁje/	recycleraient /ʁə.si.klə.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	recycle /ʁə.sikl/	recycles /ʁə.sikl/	recycle /ʁə.sikl/	recyclions /ʁə.si.kli.jɔ̃/	recycliez /ʁə.si.kli.je/	recyclent /ʁə.sikl/
	imperfect2	recyclasse /ʁə.si.klas/	recyclasses /ʁə.si.klas/	recyclât /ʁə.si.kla/	recyclassions /ʁə.si.kla.sjɔ̃/	recyclassiez /ʁə.si.kla.sje/	recyclassent /ʁə.si.klas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	recycle /ʁə.sikl/	—	recyclons /ʁə.si.klɔ̃/	recyclez /ʁə.si.kle/	—
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

• recyclage

Further reading

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