recouvrer
French, verb/ʁə.ku.vʁe/
recouvrer is spelled R-E-C-O-U-V-R-E-R (9 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written French, the 27,734th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Recouvrer is a French verb meaning “to recover (get back into one's possession)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Retrouver, rentrer en possession ; acquérir de nouveau une chose qu’on avait perdue”.
What does recouvrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to recover (get back into one's possession)
recouvrer la santé
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Retrouver, rentrer en possession ; acquérir de nouveau une chose qu’on avait perdue. 2. Recevoir, percevoir ou récupérer le paiement d’une somme due. 3. Faire la levée, la perception des impôts.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of recouvrer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- recouvrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- recouvré participle past
- recouvre first-person indicative present
- recouvres indicative present second-person
- recouvrons first-person indicative plural
- recouvrez indicative plural present
- recouvrent indicative plural present
- recouvrais first-person imperfect indicative
- recouvrait imperfect indicative singular
- recouvrions first-person imperfect indicative
- recouvriez imperfect indicative plural
- recouvraient imperfect indicative plural
- recouvrai first-person historic indicative
- recouvras historic indicative past
- recouvra historic indicative past
- recouvrâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce recouvrer?
- /ʁə.ku.vʁe/
- \ʁə.ku.vʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to recouvrer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is recouvrer in French?
recouvrer appears 1.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).