récupérer
/ʁe.ky.pe.ʁe/ verb B1- to get back, to recover, to recuperate
- to reform, to rehabilitate
- to reclaim, to recover
- to make up (e.g. time)
- to co-opt, to appropriate, to recast to serve one's own ends · Le premier ministre a tenté de récupérer la crise, mais l'opposition a rétorqué que celle-ci s'était produite sous sa gouverne. The premier tried to co-opt the crisis, but the opposition retorted that it had occurred on his watch.
Verb forms
- Infinitive
- récupérer
- Present participle
- récupérant
- Past participle
- récupéré
- Present (je)
- récupère
- Future (je)
- récupèrerai
- Passé composé (je)
- ai récupéré
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