recoudre

French

Verb

recoudre

  1. (transitive) to resew, mend (a thing torn or unraveled)
  2. (surgery, transitive) to stitch together, to close (an incision or wound) with surgical stitches
  3. (figuratively, transitive) to stitch or piece together, as memories

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like coudre. That means it is conjugated like rendre, except that its stem is recoud- in only part of the conjugation. Before endings that begin with vowels, the stem recous- (with a /-z-/ sound) is used instead; for example, nous recousons, not *nous recoudons.

Conjugation of recoudre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle recousant
/ʁə.ku.zɑ̃/
past participle recousu
/ʁə.ku.zy/
infinitive
simple recoudre
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple recousant
/ʁə.ku.zɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present recouds
/ʁə.ku/		 recouds
/ʁə.ku/		 recoud
/ʁə.ku/		 recousons
/ʁə.ku.zɔ̃/		 recousez
/ʁə.ku.ze/		 recousent
/ʁə.kuz/
imperfect recousais
/ʁə.ku.zɛ/		 recousais
/ʁə.ku.zɛ/		 recousait
/ʁə.ku.zɛ/		 recousions
/ʁə.ku.zjɔ̃/		 recousiez
/ʁə.ku.zje/		 recousaient
/ʁə.ku.zɛ/
past historic2 recousis
/ʁə.ku.zi/		 recousis
/ʁə.ku.zi/		 recousit
/ʁə.ku.zi/		 recousîmes
/ʁə.ku.zim/		 recousîtes
/ʁə.ku.zit/		 recousirent
/ʁə.ku.ziʁ/
future recoudrai
/ʁə.ku.dʁe/		 recoudras
/ʁə.ku.dʁa/		 recoudra
/ʁə.ku.dʁa/		 recoudrons
/ʁə.ku.dʁɔ̃/		 recoudrez
/ʁə.ku.dʁe/		 recoudront
/ʁə.ku.dʁɔ̃/
conditional recoudrais
/ʁə.ku.dʁɛ/		 recoudrais
/ʁə.ku.dʁɛ/		 recoudrait
/ʁə.ku.dʁɛ/		 recoudrions
/ʁə.ku.dʁi.jɔ̃/		 recoudriez
/ʁə.ku.dʁi.je/		 recoudraient
/ʁə.ku.dʁɛ/
(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 recouse
/ʁə.kuz/		 recouses
/ʁə.kuz/		 recouse
/ʁə.kuz/		 recousions
/ʁə.ku.zjɔ̃/		 recousiez
/ʁə.ku.zje/		 recousent
/ʁə.kuz/
imperfect2 recousisse
/ʁə.ku.zis/		 recousisses
/ʁə.ku.zis/		 recousît
/ʁə.ku.zi/		 recousissions
/ʁə.ku.zi.sjɔ̃/		 recousissiez
/ʁə.ku.zi.sje/		 recousissent
/ʁə.ku.zis/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — recouds
/ʁə.ku/		 — recousons
/ʁə.ku.zɔ̃/		 recousez
/ʁə.ku.ze/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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