méconnaître
See also: méconnaitre
French
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /me.kɔ.nɛtʁ/
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Verb
méconnaître
- to not recognize or be unaware of
- Le médecin a méconnu la nature de cette maladie.
- The doctor did not recognize the nature of this sickness.
- (by extension) To ignore someone by pretending not to know them.
- Il est devenu si orgueilleux qu’il méconnaît ses parents, ses amis.
- He has become so arrogant that he ignores his parents, his friends.
- (figuratively) Fail to treat someone in the way they deserve; not appreciate a quality, something they merit.
- Cet homme de génie a été méconnu de ses contemporains.
- This man of genius was ignored by his contemporaries.
Conjugation
This verb is one of a fairly small group of -re verbs, that are all conjugated the same way. They are unlike other verb groups in that the ‘i’ is given a circumflex before a ‘t’.
Conjugation of méconnaître (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | méconnaissant /me.kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | méconnu /me.kɔ.ny/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | méconnaître | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | méconnaissant /me.kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
| 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 | méconnais /me.kɔ.nɛ/ |
méconnais /me.kɔ.nɛ/ |
méconnaît /me.kɔ.nɛ/ |
méconnaissons /me.kɔ.nɛ.sɔ̃/ |
méconnaissez /me.kɔ.nɛ.se/ |
méconnaissent /me.kɔ.nɛs/ |
| imperfect | méconnaissais /me.kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ |
méconnaissais /me.kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ |
méconnaissait /me.kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ |
méconnaissions /me.kɔ.nɛ.sjɔ̃/ |
méconnaissiez /me.kɔ.nɛ.sje/ |
méconnaissaient /me.kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | méconnus /me.kɔ.ny/ |
méconnus /me.kɔ.ny/ |
méconnut /me.kɔ.ny/ |
méconnûmes /me.kɔ.nym/ |
méconnûtes /me.kɔ.nyt/ |
méconnurent /me.kɔ.nyʁ/ | |
| future | méconnaîtrai /me.kɔ.nɛ.tʁe/ |
méconnaîtras /me.kɔ.nɛ.tʁa/ |
méconnaîtra /me.kɔ.nɛ.tʁa/ |
méconnaîtrons /me.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
méconnaîtrez /me.kɔ.nɛ.tʁe/ |
méconnaîtront /me.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | méconnaîtrais /me.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ |
méconnaîtrais /me.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ |
méconnaîtrait /me.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ |
méconnaîtrions /me.kɔ.nɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
méconnaîtriez /me.kɔ.nɛ.tʁi.je/ |
méconnaîtraient /me.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | méconnaisse /me.kɔ.nɛs/ |
méconnaisses /me.kɔ.nɛs/ |
méconnaisse /me.kɔ.nɛs/ |
méconnaissions /me.kɔ.nɛ.sjɔ̃/ |
méconnaissiez /me.kɔ.nɛ.sje/ |
méconnaissent /me.kɔ.nɛs/ |
| imperfect2 | méconnusse /me.kɔ.nys/ |
méconnusses /me.kɔ.nys/ |
méconnût /me.kɔ.ny/ |
méconnussions /me.kɔ.ny.sjɔ̃/ |
méconnussiez /me.kɔ.ny.sje/ |
méconnussent /me.kɔ.nys/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | méconnais /me.kɔ.nɛ/ |
— | méconnaissons /me.kɔ.nɛ.sɔ̃/ |
méconnaissez /me.kɔ.nɛ.se/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “méconnaître” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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