récolter
French
    
    Etymology
    
From récolte (borrowed from Italian ricolta, feminine past participle of ricogliere) + -er.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ʁe.kɔl.te/
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Verb
    
récolter
- (transitive) to harvest (to reap)
- La règle générale est donc d’attendre jusqu’à 45 [quarante-cinq] ans après la plantation d’un érable avant de commencer à récolter son eau.- The general rule is thus to wait until 45 years after the planting of a maple before beginning to harvest its sap.
 
 
Conjugation
    
Conjugation of récolter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | récolter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | récoltant /ʁe.kɔl.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | récolté /ʁe.kɔl.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | récolte /ʁe.kɔlt/ | récoltes /ʁe.kɔlt/ | récolte /ʁe.kɔlt/ | récoltons /ʁe.kɔl.tɔ̃/ | récoltez /ʁe.kɔl.te/ | récoltent /ʁe.kɔlt/ | 
| imperfect | récoltais /ʁe.kɔl.tɛ/ | récoltais /ʁe.kɔl.tɛ/ | récoltait /ʁe.kɔl.tɛ/ | récoltions /ʁe.kɔl.tjɔ̃/ | récoltiez /ʁe.kɔl.tje/ | récoltaient /ʁe.kɔl.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | récoltai /ʁe.kɔl.te/ | récoltas /ʁe.kɔl.ta/ | récolta /ʁe.kɔl.ta/ | récoltâmes /ʁe.kɔl.tam/ | récoltâtes /ʁe.kɔl.tat/ | récoltèrent /ʁe.kɔl.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | récolterai /ʁe.kɔl.tə.ʁe/ | récolteras /ʁe.kɔl.tə.ʁa/ | récoltera /ʁe.kɔl.tə.ʁa/ | récolterons /ʁe.kɔl.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | récolterez /ʁe.kɔl.tə.ʁe/ | récolteront /ʁe.kɔl.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | récolterais /ʁe.kɔl.tə.ʁɛ/ | récolterais /ʁe.kɔl.tə.ʁɛ/ | récolterait /ʁe.kɔl.tə.ʁɛ/ | récolterions /ʁe.kɔl.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | récolteriez /ʁe.kɔl.tə.ʁje/ | récolteraient /ʁe.kɔl.tə.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 | récolte /ʁe.kɔlt/ | récoltes /ʁe.kɔlt/ | récolte /ʁe.kɔlt/ | récoltions /ʁe.kɔl.tjɔ̃/ | récoltiez /ʁe.kɔl.tje/ | récoltent /ʁe.kɔlt/ | 
| imperfect2 | récoltasse /ʁe.kɔl.tas/ | récoltasses /ʁe.kɔl.tas/ | récoltât /ʁe.kɔl.ta/ | récoltassions /ʁe.kɔl.ta.sjɔ̃/ | récoltassiez /ʁe.kɔl.ta.sje/ | récoltassent /ʁe.kɔl.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | récolte /ʁe.kɔlt/ | — | récoltons /ʁe.kɔl.tɔ̃/ | récoltez /ʁe.kɔl.te/ | — | |
| 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: 
 (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
    
Further reading
    
- “récolter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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