recomparaître

See also: recomparaitre

French

Alternative forms

• recomparaitre

Pronunciation

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Verb

recomparaître

1. to reappear before a judge or government official

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 recomparaître (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	recomparaître
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	recomparaissant /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.sɑ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁe.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		recomparu /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁy/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	recomparais /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ/	recomparais /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ/	recomparaît /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ/	recomparaissons /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁe.sɔ̃/	recomparaissez /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.se/ or /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁe.se/	recomparaissent /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛs/
	imperfect	recomparaissais /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁe.sɛ/	recomparaissais /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁe.sɛ/	recomparaissait /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁe.sɛ/	recomparaissions /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁe.sjɔ̃/	recomparaissiez /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.sje/ or /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁe.sje/	recomparaissaient /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁe.sɛ/
	past historic2	recomparus /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁy/	recomparus /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁy/	recomparut /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁy/	recomparûmes /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁym/	recomparûtes /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁyt/	recomparurent /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁyʁ/
	future	recomparaîtrai /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.tʁe/ or /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁe.tʁe/	recomparaîtras /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.tʁa/ or /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁe.tʁa/	recomparaîtra /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.tʁa/ or /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁe.tʁa/	recomparaîtrons /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁe.tʁɔ̃/	recomparaîtrez /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.tʁe/ or /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁe.tʁe/	recomparaîtront /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁe.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	recomparaîtrais /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/	recomparaîtrais /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/	recomparaîtrait /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁe.tʁɛ/	recomparaîtrions /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁe.tʁi.jɔ̃/	recomparaîtriez /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.tʁi.je/ or /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁe.tʁi.je/	recomparaîtraient /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁe.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	recomparaisse /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛs/	recomparaisses /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛs/	recomparaisse /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛs/	recomparaissions /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁe.sjɔ̃/	recomparaissiez /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.sje/ or /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁe.sje/	recomparaissent /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛs/
	imperfect2	recomparusse /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁys/	recomparusses /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁys/	recomparût /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁy/	recomparussions /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁy.sjɔ̃/	recomparussiez /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁy.sje/	recomparussent /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁys/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	recomparais /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ/	—	recomparaissons /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁe.sɔ̃/	recomparaissez /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁɛ.se/ or /ʁə.kɔ̃.pa.ʁe.se/	—
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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “recomparaître”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• comparerait