recourir

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French

Etymology

From re- +‎ courir, with some senses from Latin recurrere. Found in Old French as recourre, recorre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁə.ku.ʁiʁ/
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Verb

recourir

  1. to run again, to race again
  2. (transitive with à) to resort (to thing or action); to turn (to a person)

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like other regular -ir verbs, except that in the conditional and future tenses an extra 'r' is added to the end of the stem and the past participle ends in -u. All verb ending in -courir are conjugated this way.

Conjugation of recourir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple recourir
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple recourant
/ʁə.ku.ʁɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle recouru
/ʁə.ku.ʁy/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present recours
/ʁə.kuʁ/ 		recours
/ʁə.kuʁ/ 		recourt
/ʁə.kuʁ/ 		recourons
/ʁə.ku.ʁɔ̃/ 		recourez
/ʁə.ku.ʁe/ 		recourent
/ʁə.kuʁ/
imperfect recourais
/ʁə.ku.ʁɛ/ 		recourais
/ʁə.ku.ʁɛ/ 		recourait
/ʁə.ku.ʁɛ/ 		recourions
/ʁə.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ 		recouriez
/ʁə.ku.ʁje/ 		recouraient
/ʁə.ku.ʁɛ/
past historic2 recourus
/ʁə.ku.ʁy/ 		recourus
/ʁə.ku.ʁy/ 		recourut
/ʁə.ku.ʁy/ 		recourûmes
/ʁə.ku.ʁym/ 		recourûtes
/ʁə.ku.ʁyt/ 		recoururent
/ʁə.ku.ʁyʁ/
future recourrai
/ʁə.kuʁ.ʁe/ 		recourras
/ʁə.kuʁ.ʁa/ 		recourra
/ʁə.kuʁ.ʁa/ 		recourrons
/ʁə.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/ 		recourrez
/ʁə.kuʁ.ʁe/ 		recourront
/ʁə.kuʁ.ʁɔ̃/
conditional recourrais
/ʁə.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ 		recourrais
/ʁə.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ 		recourrait
/ʁə.kuʁ.ʁɛ/ 		recourrions
/ʁə.kuʁ.ʁjɔ̃/ 		recourriez
/ʁə.kuʁ.ʁje/ 		recourraient
/ʁə.kuʁ.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 recoure
/ʁə.kuʁ/ 		recoures
/ʁə.kuʁ/ 		recoure
/ʁə.kuʁ/ 		recourions
/ʁə.ku.ʁjɔ̃/ 		recouriez
/ʁə.ku.ʁje/ 		recourent
/ʁə.kuʁ/
imperfect2 recourusse
/ʁə.ku.ʁys/ 		recourusses
/ʁə.ku.ʁys/ 		recourût
/ʁə.ku.ʁy/ 		recourussions
/ʁə.ku.ʁy.sjɔ̃/ 		recourussiez
/ʁə.ku.ʁy.sje/ 		recourussent
/ʁə.ku.ʁys/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — recours
/ʁə.kuʁ/ 		— recourons
/ʁə.ku.ʁɔ̃/ 		recourez
/ʁə.ku.ʁe/ 		—
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:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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