retracer

English

Etymology

retrace +‎ -er

Noun

retracer (plural retracers)

1. One who retraces.

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French

Verb

retracer

1. to recount, to tell
2. to redraw, to draw again

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

Conjugation of retracer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	retracer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	retraçant /ʁə.tʁa.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		retracé /ʁə.tʁa.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	retrace /ʁə.tʁas/	retraces /ʁə.tʁas/	retrace /ʁə.tʁas/	retraçons /ʁə.tʁa.sɔ̃/	retracez /ʁə.tʁa.se/	retracent /ʁə.tʁas/
	imperfect	retraçais /ʁə.tʁa.sɛ/	retraçais /ʁə.tʁa.sɛ/	retraçait /ʁə.tʁa.sɛ/	retracions /ʁə.tʁa.sjɔ̃/	retraciez /ʁə.tʁa.sje/	retraçaient /ʁə.tʁa.sɛ/
	past historic2	retraçai /ʁə.tʁa.se/	retraças /ʁə.tʁa.sa/	retraça /ʁə.tʁa.sa/	retraçâmes /ʁə.tʁa.sam/	retraçâtes /ʁə.tʁa.sat/	retracèrent /ʁə.tʁa.sɛʁ/
	future	retracerai /ʁə.tʁa.sʁe/	retraceras /ʁə.tʁa.sʁa/	retracera /ʁə.tʁa.sʁa/	retracerons /ʁə.tʁa.sʁɔ̃/	retracerez /ʁə.tʁa.sʁe/	retraceront /ʁə.tʁa.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	retracerais /ʁə.tʁa.sʁɛ/	retracerais /ʁə.tʁa.sʁɛ/	retracerait /ʁə.tʁa.sʁɛ/	retracerions /ʁə.tʁa.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	retraceriez /ʁə.tʁa.sə.ʁje/	retraceraient /ʁə.tʁa.sʁɛ/
(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	retrace /ʁə.tʁas/	retraces /ʁə.tʁas/	retrace /ʁə.tʁas/	retracions /ʁə.tʁa.sjɔ̃/	retraciez /ʁə.tʁa.sje/	retracent /ʁə.tʁas/
	imperfect2	retraçasse /ʁə.tʁa.sas/	retraçasses /ʁə.tʁa.sas/	retraçât /ʁə.tʁa.sa/	retraçassions /ʁə.tʁa.sa.sjɔ̃/	retraçassiez /ʁə.tʁa.sa.sje/	retraçassent /ʁə.tʁa.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	retrace /ʁə.tʁas/	—	retraçons /ʁə.tʁa.sɔ̃/	retracez /ʁə.tʁa.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

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