recevoir
French, verb/ʁə.sə.vwaʁ/
recevoir is a French verb meaning “to receive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Accepter, prendre ce qui est donné, ce qui est présenté, ce qui est offert sans qu’il soit dû”.
What does recevoir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to receive
- 2
to entertain (to welcome guests)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Accepter, prendre ce qui est donné, ce qui est présenté, ce qui est offert sans qu’il soit dû. 2. Toucher ce qui est dû, en être payé. 3. Se faire procurer ; en parlant de tout ce qui est délivré, fourni. 4. Se faire remettre entre ses mains, se faire parvenir, en parlant des choses qui sont envoyées ou adressées à quelqu’un.
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 recevoir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- recevant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- reçu participle past
- reçois first-person indicative present
- reçoit indicative present singular
- recevons first-person indicative plural
- recevez indicative plural present
- reçoivent indicative plural present
- recevais first-person imperfect indicative
- recevait imperfect indicative singular
- recevions first-person imperfect indicative
- receviez imperfect indicative plural
- recevaient imperfect indicative plural
- reçus first-person historic indicative
- reçut historic indicative past
- reçûmes first-person historic indicative
- reçûtes historic indicative past
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce recevoir?
- /ʁə.sə.vwaʁ/
- \ʁə.sə.vwaʁ\
- [ʁə.sə.vwaʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to recevoir
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is recevoir in French?
recevoir appears 62 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).