réciter
See also: reciter
French
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editVerb
editréciter
- (transitive) to recite, to declaim
Conjugation
editConjugation of réciter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | réciter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | récitant /ʁe.si.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | récité /ʁe.si.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | récite /ʁe.sit/ |
récites /ʁe.sit/ |
récite /ʁe.sit/ |
récitons /ʁe.si.tɔ̃/ |
récitez /ʁe.si.te/ |
récitent /ʁe.sit/ |
| imperfect | récitais /ʁe.si.tɛ/ |
récitais /ʁe.si.tɛ/ |
récitait /ʁe.si.tɛ/ |
récitions /ʁe.si.tjɔ̃/ |
récitiez /ʁe.si.tje/ |
récitaient /ʁe.si.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | récitai /ʁe.si.te/ |
récitas /ʁe.si.ta/ |
récita /ʁe.si.ta/ |
récitâmes /ʁe.si.tam/ |
récitâtes /ʁe.si.tat/ |
récitèrent /ʁe.si.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | réciterai /ʁe.si.tʁe/ |
réciteras /ʁe.si.tʁa/ |
récitera /ʁe.si.tʁa/ |
réciterons /ʁe.si.tʁɔ̃/ |
réciterez /ʁe.si.tʁe/ |
réciteront /ʁe.si.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | réciterais /ʁe.si.tʁɛ/ |
réciterais /ʁe.si.tʁɛ/ |
réciterait /ʁe.si.tʁɛ/ |
réciterions /ʁe.si.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
réciteriez /ʁe.si.tə.ʁje/ |
réciteraient /ʁe.si.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 | récite /ʁe.sit/ |
récites /ʁe.sit/ |
récite /ʁe.sit/ |
récitions /ʁe.si.tjɔ̃/ |
récitiez /ʁe.si.tje/ |
récitent /ʁe.sit/ |
| imperfect2 | récitasse /ʁe.si.tas/ |
récitasses /ʁe.si.tas/ |
récitât /ʁe.si.ta/ |
récitassions /ʁe.si.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
récitassiez /ʁe.si.ta.sje/ |
récitassent /ʁe.si.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | récite /ʁe.sit/ |
— | récitons /ʁe.si.tɔ̃/ |
récitez /ʁe.si.te/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “réciter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.