reconnoître

See also: reconnoitre

English

Verb

reconnoître (third-person singular simple present reconnoîtres, present participle reconnoîtring, simple past and past participle reconnoîtred)

Rare spelling of reconnoitre.
- 1833, “Foreign Miscellany”, in The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine, part III, London: […] for Henry Colburn, by Richard Bentley, […], “Sweden. Gustavus Adolphus’ Death.”, page 95:
  This is a letter from Andreas Goeding, provost of Werio, a town in Gothland, to the then secretary of the archives of state. The writer’s narrative is as follows:— / “When I was in Saxony, in the year 1687, a fortunate accident enabled me to discover the circumstances accompanying the melancholy end of Gustavus Adolphus. This great monarch had rode out for the simple purpose of reconnoîtring the enemy, attended by a single servant. […]”
- 1850, John S. Jenkins, “Clermont de Tonnèrre”, in United States Exploring Expeditions. Voyage of the U. S. Exploring Squadron, Commanded by Captain Charles Wilkes, of the United States Navy, in 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842: […]., Auburn: James M. Alden, page 156:
  On approaching the island, the boats were lowered, and some of the officers and scientific corps started to reconnoître.
- 1869, Edward A. Freeman, “The Interregnum. October 1—December 25, 1066.”, in Old English History for Children, London: Macmillan and Co., page 345:
  But the chief thing was to take London; so as soon as William was well enough, he set forth again on his march. He first sent out five hundred horsemen, who must have gone more to reconnoître, as it is called, that is to look about and to see how the land lies, than with any hope that such a force could take the city.
- 1909, Proceedings, page 10:
  If moreover a veterinary surgeon has a turn for zootechny, and great propensity to the profession, if he is besides urged on by experienced cattle-breeders, there is certainly no other person better able than he to promote cattle-breeding. […] He should likewise visit the places where cattle are examined, be present where prices are awarded, frequent markets of breeding-cattle, cattle shows and race-courses; these visits being of great use for reconnoîtring and judging of the condition of the breeds.
- 1911, I. H. B. Spiers, Episodes from Alexandre Dumas’ Les trois mousquetaires, ed. with notes and vocab., pages 162 and 179:
  éclairer, to light up; reconnoître. […] reconnaissance, f., gratitude; reconnoîtring-trip; pousser une — perdue, to go on a dangerous reconnoîtring party.
- 2004 May 6, ah, “My TV just switched itself on!”, in uk.rec.caravanning (Usenet):
  > Until about 00:08 I reckon. / What do you do after you reconnoître?

Anagrams

reconnoiter

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʁə.kɔ.nɛtʁ/

Verb

reconnoître

Obsolete spelling of reconnaître.

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'. This conjugation pattern is no longer in use and has been replaced by -aître.

Conjugation of reconnoître (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	reconnoître
present participle or gerund¹	simple	reconnoissant /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɑ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		reconnu /ʁə.kɔ.ny/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	reconnois /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ/	reconnois /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ/	reconnoit /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ/	reconnoissons /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sɔ̃/	reconnoissez /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.se/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.se/	reconnoissent /ʁə.kɔ.nɛs/
	imperfect	reconnoissais /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sɛ/	reconnoissais /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sɛ/	reconnoissait /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sɛ/	reconnoissions /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sjɔ̃/	reconnoissiez /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sje/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sje/	reconnoissaient /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sɛ/
	past historic²	reconnus /ʁə.kɔ.ny/	reconnus /ʁə.kɔ.ny/	reconnut /ʁə.kɔ.ny/	reconnûmes /ʁə.kɔ.nym/	reconnûtes /ʁə.kɔ.nyt/	reconnurent /ʁə.kɔ.nyʁ/
	future	reconnoîtrai /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁe/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁe/	reconnoîtras /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁa/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁa/	reconnoîtra /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁa/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁa/	reconnoîtrons /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁɔ̃/	reconnoîtrez /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁe/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁe/	reconnoîtront /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	reconnoîtrais /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁɛ/	reconnoîtrais /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁɛ/	reconnoîtrait /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁɛ/	reconnoîtrions /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁi.jɔ̃/	reconnoîtriez /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁi.je/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.tʁi.je/	reconnoîtraient /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.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	reconnoisse /ʁə.kɔ.nɛs/	reconnoisses /ʁə.kɔ.nɛs/	reconnoisse /ʁə.kɔ.nɛs/	reconnoissions /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sjɔ̃/	reconnoissiez /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sje/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sje/	reconnoissent /ʁə.kɔ.nɛs/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	reconnusse /ʁə.kɔ.nys/	reconnusses /ʁə.kɔ.nys/	reconnût /ʁə.kɔ.ny/	reconnussions /ʁə.kɔ.ny.sjɔ̃/	reconnussiez /ʁə.kɔ.ny.sje/	reconnussent /ʁə.kɔ.nys/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	reconnois /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ/	—	reconnoissons /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.sɔ̃/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.sɔ̃/	reconnoissez /ʁə.kɔ.nɛ.se/ or /ʁə.kɔ.ne.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).