renâcler

French

Etymology

Variant (influenced by renifler) of Middle French renaquer, from naquer, from Old French naquier (“sniff”), nascïer (“talk through the nose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.na.kle/, /ʁə.nɑ.kle/

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Verb

renâcler

1. (intransitive) to display fear, anger or reluctance by snorting (of animals, especially horses)

   Synonym: renifler

   Devant l’obstacle, le cheval s’arrêta net en renâclant.

   In front of the obstacle, the horse stopped dead in its tracks with a snort.

2. (intransitive, figuratively) to display reluctance

   Synonym: rechigner

   Il prit le balais et la serpillière et s’activa à la tâche, non sans avoir renâclé bruyamment.

   He took the broom and the floorcloth and got to work, but not before loudly complaining.

   • 2015 April 16, Maurice Szafran, “Pourquoi le nouveau nom de l'UMP suscite l'indignation”, in Challenges‎^[1]:

     Au sein de (l’ex) UMP, l’accueil, hormis au sein du premier cercle sarkozyste, n’est guère enthousiaste à l’annonce de ce nouveau nom. Les proches d’Alain Juppé et de François Fillon renâclent, même s’ils n’osent pas l’exprimer haut et fort.

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Conjugation

Conjugation of renâcler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	renâcler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	renâclant /ʁə.na.klɑ̃/ or /ʁə.nɑ.klɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		renâclé /ʁə.na.kle/ or /ʁə.nɑ.kle/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	renâcle /ʁə.nakl/ or /ʁə.nɑkl/	renâcles /ʁə.nakl/ or /ʁə.nɑkl/	renâcle /ʁə.nakl/ or /ʁə.nɑkl/	renâclons /ʁə.na.klɔ̃/ or /ʁə.nɑ.klɔ̃/	renâclez /ʁə.na.kle/ or /ʁə.nɑ.kle/	renâclent /ʁə.nakl/ or /ʁə.nɑkl/
	imperfect	renâclais /ʁə.na.klɛ/ or /ʁə.nɑ.klɛ/	renâclais /ʁə.na.klɛ/ or /ʁə.nɑ.klɛ/	renâclait /ʁə.na.klɛ/ or /ʁə.nɑ.klɛ/	renâclions /ʁə.na.kli.jɔ̃/ or /ʁə.nɑ.kli.jɔ̃/	renâcliez /ʁə.na.kli.je/ or /ʁə.nɑ.kli.je/	renâclaient /ʁə.na.klɛ/ or /ʁə.nɑ.klɛ/
	past historic2	renâclai /ʁə.na.kle/ or /ʁə.nɑ.kle/	renâclas /ʁə.na.kla/ or /ʁə.nɑ.kla/	renâcla /ʁə.na.kla/ or /ʁə.nɑ.kla/	renâclâmes /ʁə.na.klam/ or /ʁə.nɑ.klam/	renâclâtes /ʁə.na.klat/ or /ʁə.nɑ.klat/	renâclèrent /ʁə.na.klɛʁ/ or /ʁə.nɑ.klɛʁ/
	future	renâclerai /ʁə.na.klə.ʁe/ or /ʁə.nɑ.klə.ʁe/	renâcleras /ʁə.na.klə.ʁa/ or /ʁə.nɑ.klə.ʁa/	renâclera /ʁə.na.klə.ʁa/ or /ʁə.nɑ.klə.ʁa/	renâclerons /ʁə.na.klə.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.nɑ.klə.ʁɔ̃/	renâclerez /ʁə.na.klə.ʁe/ or /ʁə.nɑ.klə.ʁe/	renâcleront /ʁə.na.klə.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.nɑ.klə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	renâclerais /ʁə.na.klə.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.nɑ.klə.ʁɛ/	renâclerais /ʁə.na.klə.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.nɑ.klə.ʁɛ/	renâclerait /ʁə.na.klə.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.nɑ.klə.ʁɛ/	renâclerions /ʁə.na.klə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.nɑ.klə.ʁjɔ̃/	renâcleriez /ʁə.na.klə.ʁje/ or /ʁə.nɑ.klə.ʁje/	renâcleraient /ʁə.na.klə.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.nɑ.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	renâcle /ʁə.nakl/ or /ʁə.nɑkl/	renâcles /ʁə.nakl/ or /ʁə.nɑkl/	renâcle /ʁə.nakl/ or /ʁə.nɑkl/	renâclions /ʁə.na.kli.jɔ̃/ or /ʁə.nɑ.kli.jɔ̃/	renâcliez /ʁə.na.kli.je/ or /ʁə.nɑ.kli.je/	renâclent /ʁə.nakl/ or /ʁə.nɑkl/
	imperfect2	renâclasse /ʁə.na.klas/ or /ʁə.nɑ.klas/	renâclasses /ʁə.na.klas/ or /ʁə.nɑ.klas/	renâclât /ʁə.na.kla/ or /ʁə.nɑ.kla/	renâclassions /ʁə.na.kla.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.nɑ.kla.sjɔ̃/	renâclassiez /ʁə.na.kla.sje/ or /ʁə.nɑ.kla.sje/	renâclassent /ʁə.na.klas/ or /ʁə.nɑ.klas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	renâcle /ʁə.nakl/ or /ʁə.nɑkl/	—	renâclons /ʁə.na.klɔ̃/ or /ʁə.nɑ.klɔ̃/	renâclez /ʁə.na.kle/ or /ʁə.nɑ.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).

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• relancer