recopier

English

Etymology

recopy +‎ -er

Noun

recopier (plural recopiers)

1. One who, or that which, copies again.

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ copier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.kɔ.pje/

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Verb

recopier

1. (transitive) to copy (again)
2. (transitive) to transcribe

Conjugation

Conjugation of recopier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	recopier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	recopiant /ʁə.kɔ.pjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		recopié /ʁə.kɔ.pje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	recopie /ʁə.kɔ.pi/	recopies /ʁə.kɔ.pi/	recopie /ʁə.kɔ.pi/	recopions /ʁə.kɔ.pjɔ̃/	recopiez /ʁə.kɔ.pje/	recopient /ʁə.kɔ.pi/
	imperfect	recopiais /ʁə.kɔ.pjɛ/	recopiais /ʁə.kɔ.pjɛ/	recopiait /ʁə.kɔ.pjɛ/	recopiions /ʁə.kɔ.pi.jɔ̃/	recopiiez /ʁə.kɔ.pi.je/	recopiaient /ʁə.kɔ.pjɛ/
	past historic2	recopiai /ʁə.kɔ.pje/	recopias /ʁə.kɔ.pja/	recopia /ʁə.kɔ.pja/	recopiâmes /ʁə.kɔ.pjam/	recopiâtes /ʁə.kɔ.pjat/	recopièrent /ʁə.kɔ.pjɛʁ/
	future	recopierai /ʁə.kɔ.pi.ʁe/	recopieras /ʁə.kɔ.pi.ʁa/	recopiera /ʁə.kɔ.pi.ʁa/	recopierons /ʁə.kɔ.pi.ʁɔ̃/	recopierez /ʁə.kɔ.pi.ʁe/	recopieront /ʁə.kɔ.pi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	recopierais /ʁə.kɔ.pi.ʁɛ/	recopierais /ʁə.kɔ.pi.ʁɛ/	recopierait /ʁə.kɔ.pi.ʁɛ/	recopierions /ʁə.kɔ.pi.ʁjɔ̃/	recopieriez /ʁə.kɔ.pi.ʁje/	recopieraient /ʁə.kɔ.pi.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	recopie /ʁə.kɔ.pi/	recopies /ʁə.kɔ.pi/	recopie /ʁə.kɔ.pi/	recopiions /ʁə.kɔ.pi.jɔ̃/	recopiiez /ʁə.kɔ.pi.je/	recopient /ʁə.kɔ.pi/
	imperfect2	recopiasse /ʁə.kɔ.pjas/	recopiasses /ʁə.kɔ.pjas/	recopiât /ʁə.kɔ.pja/	recopiassions /ʁə.kɔ.pja.sjɔ̃/	recopiassiez /ʁə.kɔ.pja.sje/	recopiassent /ʁə.kɔ.pjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	recopie /ʁə.kɔ.pi/	—	recopions /ʁə.kɔ.pjɔ̃/	recopiez /ʁə.kɔ.pje/	—
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).

Derived terms

• recopiage
• recopieur

Further reading

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