recoiffer

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ coiffer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.kwa.fe/

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Verb

recoiffer

1. to fix one's hair (again, or after being disturbed)

Conjugation

Conjugation of recoiffer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	recoiffer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	recoiffant /ʁə.kwa.fɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		recoiffé /ʁə.kwa.fe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	recoiffe /ʁə.kwaf/	recoiffes /ʁə.kwaf/	recoiffe /ʁə.kwaf/	recoiffons /ʁə.kwa.fɔ̃/	recoiffez /ʁə.kwa.fe/	recoiffent /ʁə.kwaf/
	imperfect	recoiffais /ʁə.kwa.fɛ/	recoiffais /ʁə.kwa.fɛ/	recoiffait /ʁə.kwa.fɛ/	recoiffions /ʁə.kwa.fjɔ̃/	recoiffiez /ʁə.kwa.fje/	recoiffaient /ʁə.kwa.fɛ/
	past historic2	recoiffai /ʁə.kwa.fe/	recoiffas /ʁə.kwa.fa/	recoiffa /ʁə.kwa.fa/	recoiffâmes /ʁə.kwa.fam/	recoiffâtes /ʁə.kwa.fat/	recoiffèrent /ʁə.kwa.fɛʁ/
	future	recoifferai /ʁə.kwa.fʁe/	recoifferas /ʁə.kwa.fʁa/	recoiffera /ʁə.kwa.fʁa/	recoifferons /ʁə.kwa.fʁɔ̃/	recoifferez /ʁə.kwa.fʁe/	recoifferont /ʁə.kwa.fʁɔ̃/
	conditional	recoifferais /ʁə.kwa.fʁɛ/	recoifferais /ʁə.kwa.fʁɛ/	recoifferait /ʁə.kwa.fʁɛ/	recoifferions /ʁə.kwa.fə.ʁjɔ̃/	recoifferiez /ʁə.kwa.fə.ʁje/	recoifferaient /ʁə.kwa.fʁɛ/
(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	recoiffe /ʁə.kwaf/	recoiffes /ʁə.kwaf/	recoiffe /ʁə.kwaf/	recoiffions /ʁə.kwa.fjɔ̃/	recoiffiez /ʁə.kwa.fje/	recoiffent /ʁə.kwaf/
	imperfect2	recoiffasse /ʁə.kwa.fas/	recoiffasses /ʁə.kwa.fas/	recoiffât /ʁə.kwa.fa/	recoiffassions /ʁə.kwa.fa.sjɔ̃/	recoiffassiez /ʁə.kwa.fa.sje/	recoiffassent /ʁə.kwa.fas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	recoiffe /ʁə.kwaf/	—	recoiffons /ʁə.kwa.fɔ̃/	recoiffez /ʁə.kwa.fe/	—
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

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