rechigner

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ chigner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.ʃi.ɲe/

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Verb

rechigner

1. (intransitive, colloquial) to display reluctance [with à ‘in something’ or à (+ infinitive) ‘in doing something’]

   Synonym: renâcler

   L’été, nos enfants rechignent à faire leurs devoirs de vacances. ― In the summer, our children are reluctant to do their vacation homework.

   • 2016, Mathilde Ramadier, Alberto Madrigal, Berlin 2.0, Futuropolis, →ISBN, page 41:

     Eh bien, il a beau avoir beaucoup de qualités… Il a rechigné à mettre une capote, et j’ai craqué…

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

Conjugation of rechigner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rechigner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rechignant /ʁə.ʃi.ɲɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rechigné /ʁə.ʃi.ɲe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rechigne /ʁə.ʃiɲ/	rechignes /ʁə.ʃiɲ/	rechigne /ʁə.ʃiɲ/	rechignons /ʁə.ʃi.ɲɔ̃/	rechignez /ʁə.ʃi.ɲe/	rechignent /ʁə.ʃiɲ/
	imperfect	rechignais /ʁə.ʃi.ɲɛ/	rechignais /ʁə.ʃi.ɲɛ/	rechignait /ʁə.ʃi.ɲɛ/	rechignions /ʁə.ʃi.ɲjɔ̃/	rechigniez /ʁə.ʃi.ɲje/	rechignaient /ʁə.ʃi.ɲɛ/
	past historic2	rechignai /ʁə.ʃi.ɲe/	rechignas /ʁə.ʃi.ɲa/	rechigna /ʁə.ʃi.ɲa/	rechignâmes /ʁə.ʃi.ɲam/	rechignâtes /ʁə.ʃi.ɲat/	rechignèrent /ʁə.ʃi.ɲɛʁ/
	future	rechignerai /ʁə.ʃi.ɲə.ʁe/	rechigneras /ʁə.ʃi.ɲə.ʁa/	rechignera /ʁə.ʃi.ɲə.ʁa/	rechignerons /ʁə.ʃi.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/	rechignerez /ʁə.ʃi.ɲə.ʁe/	rechigneront /ʁə.ʃi.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rechignerais /ʁə.ʃi.ɲə.ʁɛ/	rechignerais /ʁə.ʃi.ɲə.ʁɛ/	rechignerait /ʁə.ʃi.ɲə.ʁɛ/	rechignerions /ʁə.ʃi.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/	rechigneriez /ʁə.ʃi.ɲə.ʁje/	rechigneraient /ʁə.ʃi.ɲə.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	rechigne /ʁə.ʃiɲ/	rechignes /ʁə.ʃiɲ/	rechigne /ʁə.ʃiɲ/	rechignions /ʁə.ʃi.ɲjɔ̃/	rechigniez /ʁə.ʃi.ɲje/	rechignent /ʁə.ʃiɲ/
	imperfect2	rechignasse /ʁə.ʃi.ɲas/	rechignasses /ʁə.ʃi.ɲas/	rechignât /ʁə.ʃi.ɲa/	rechignassions /ʁə.ʃi.ɲa.sjɔ̃/	rechignassiez /ʁə.ʃi.ɲa.sje/	rechignassent /ʁə.ʃi.ɲas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rechigne /ʁə.ʃiɲ/	—	rechignons /ʁə.ʃi.ɲɔ̃/	rechignez /ʁə.ʃi.ɲe/	—
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

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