reculer
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]reculer
- (transitive) to move back, to put back
- (intransitive) to go backwards
- (intransitive) to back down, to concede
- (intransitive) to back off, to draw back, to retreat
- (intransitive) to recede, to gradualy disappear
- (intransitive) to drop, to fall, to decline
- (nautical, intransitive) to go astern
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of reculer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | reculer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | reculant /ʁə.ky.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | reculé /ʁə.ky.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | recule /ʁə.kyl/ |
recules /ʁə.kyl/ |
recule /ʁə.kyl/ |
reculons /ʁə.ky.lɔ̃/ |
reculez /ʁə.ky.le/ |
reculent /ʁə.kyl/ |
| imperfect | reculais /ʁə.ky.lɛ/ |
reculais /ʁə.ky.lɛ/ |
reculait /ʁə.ky.lɛ/ |
reculions /ʁə.ky.ljɔ̃/ |
reculiez /ʁə.ky.lje/ |
reculaient /ʁə.ky.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | reculai /ʁə.ky.le/ |
reculas /ʁə.ky.la/ |
recula /ʁə.ky.la/ |
reculâmes /ʁə.ky.lam/ |
reculâtes /ʁə.ky.lat/ |
reculèrent /ʁə.ky.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | reculerai /ʁə.kyl.ʁe/ |
reculeras /ʁə.kyl.ʁa/ |
reculera /ʁə.kyl.ʁa/ |
reculerons /ʁə.kyl.ʁɔ̃/ |
reculerez /ʁə.kyl.ʁe/ |
reculeront /ʁə.kyl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | reculerais /ʁə.kyl.ʁɛ/ |
reculerais /ʁə.kyl.ʁɛ/ |
reculerait /ʁə.kyl.ʁɛ/ |
reculerions /ʁə.ky.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
reculeriez /ʁə.ky.lə.ʁje/ |
reculeraient /ʁə.kyl.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 | recule /ʁə.kyl/ |
recules /ʁə.kyl/ |
recule /ʁə.kyl/ |
reculions /ʁə.ky.ljɔ̃/ |
reculiez /ʁə.ky.lje/ |
reculent /ʁə.kyl/ |
| imperfect2 | reculasse /ʁə.ky.las/ |
reculasses /ʁə.ky.las/ |
reculât /ʁə.ky.la/ |
reculassions /ʁə.ky.la.sjɔ̃/ |
reculassiez /ʁə.ky.la.sje/ |
reculassent /ʁə.ky.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | recule /ʁə.kyl/ |
— | reculons /ʁə.ky.lɔ̃/ |
reculez /ʁə.ky.le/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “reculer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.