recentrer

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

recentrer

1. to refocus

Conjugation

Conjugation of recentrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	recentrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	recentrant /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		recentré /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	recentre /ʁə.sɑ̃tʁ/	recentres /ʁə.sɑ̃tʁ/	recentre /ʁə.sɑ̃tʁ/	recentrons /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	recentrez /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁe/	recentrent /ʁə.sɑ̃tʁ/
	imperfect	recentrais /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁɛ/	recentrais /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁɛ/	recentrait /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁɛ/	recentrions /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁi.jɔ̃/	recentriez /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁi.je/	recentraient /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁɛ/
	past historic2	recentrai /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁe/	recentras /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁa/	recentra /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁa/	recentrâmes /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁam/	recentrâtes /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁat/	recentrèrent /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁɛʁ/
	future	recentrerai /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁe/	recentreras /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁa/	recentrera /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁa/	recentrerons /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/	recentrerez /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁe/	recentreront /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	recentrerais /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/	recentrerais /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/	recentrerait /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/	recentrerions /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	recentreriez /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁə.ʁje/	recentreraient /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁə.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	recentre /ʁə.sɑ̃tʁ/	recentres /ʁə.sɑ̃tʁ/	recentre /ʁə.sɑ̃tʁ/	recentrions /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁi.jɔ̃/	recentriez /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁi.je/	recentrent /ʁə.sɑ̃tʁ/
	imperfect2	recentrasse /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁas/	recentrasses /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁas/	recentrât /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁa/	recentrassions /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁa.sjɔ̃/	recentrassiez /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁa.sje/	recentrassent /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	recentre /ʁə.sɑ̃tʁ/	—	recentrons /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	recentrez /ʁə.sɑ̃.tʁe/	—
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

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