rechercher
French
Etymology
Since Middle French, from Old French recerchier, from re- + cerchier (“to look for”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃe/
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Conjugation
Conjugation of rechercher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | recherchant /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | recherché /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃe/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | rechercher | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | recherchant /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃɑ̃/ | ||||||
| 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 | recherche /ʁə.ʃɛʁʃ/ |
recherches /ʁə.ʃɛʁʃ/ |
recherche /ʁə.ʃɛʁʃ/ |
recherchons /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃɔ̃/ |
recherchez /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃe/ |
recherchent /ʁə.ʃɛʁʃ/ |
| imperfect | recherchais /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃɛ/ |
recherchais /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃɛ/ |
recherchait /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃɛ/ |
recherchions /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃjɔ̃/ |
recherchiez /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃje/ |
recherchaient /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | recherchai /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃe/ |
recherchas /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃa/ |
rechercha /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃa/ |
recherchâmes /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃam/ |
recherchâtes /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃat/ |
recherchèrent /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | rechercherai /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃə.ʁe/ |
rechercheras /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃə.ʁa/ |
recherchera /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃə.ʁa/ |
rechercherons /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/ |
rechercherez /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃə.ʁe/ |
rechercheront /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rechercherais /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃə.ʁɛ/ |
rechercherais /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃə.ʁɛ/ |
rechercherait /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃə.ʁɛ/ |
rechercherions /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rechercheriez /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃə.ʁje/ |
rechercheraient /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃə.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 | recherche /ʁə.ʃɛʁʃ/ |
recherches /ʁə.ʃɛʁʃ/ |
recherche /ʁə.ʃɛʁʃ/ |
recherchions /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃjɔ̃/ |
recherchiez /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃje/ |
recherchent /ʁə.ʃɛʁʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | recherchasse /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃas/ |
recherchasses /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃas/ |
recherchât /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃa/ |
recherchassions /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
recherchassiez /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃa.sje/ |
recherchassent /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | recherche /ʁə.ʃɛʁʃ/ |
— | recherchons /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃɔ̃/ |
recherchez /ʁə.ʃɛʁ.ʃe/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “rechercher” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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