reprocher
French
Etymology
From Old French reprochier, from Vulgar Latin *repropiāre, from prope (“nearby”). See also rapprocher.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃe/
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Verb
reprocher
- to blame somebody for something (place blame upon)
- 2015 October 31, “Migrants : Allemagne restreint les accès à sa frontière avec Autriche”, in Le Monde:
- « Nous souhaitons parvenir à un processus ordonné », a expliqué le ministère allemand de l’intérieur, deux jours après que Berlin eut reproché aux Autrichiens de conduire des migrants à la frontière de nuit et sans prévenir la police allemande.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
- Il lui reprocha ce qu’il avait fait.
- He reproached him for what he had done.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of reprocher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | reprocher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | reprochant /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | reproché /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | reproche /ʁə.pʁɔʃ/ |
reproches /ʁə.pʁɔʃ/ |
reproche /ʁə.pʁɔʃ/ |
reprochons /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃɔ̃/ |
reprochez /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃe/ |
reprochent /ʁə.pʁɔʃ/ |
| imperfect | reprochais /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃɛ/ |
reprochais /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃɛ/ |
reprochait /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃɛ/ |
reprochions /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃjɔ̃/ |
reprochiez /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃje/ |
reprochaient /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | reprochai /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃe/ |
reprochas /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃa/ |
reprocha /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃa/ |
reprochâmes /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃam/ |
reprochâtes /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃat/ |
reprochèrent /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | reprocherai /ʁə.pʁɔʃ.ʁe/ |
reprocheras /ʁə.pʁɔʃ.ʁa/ |
reprochera /ʁə.pʁɔʃ.ʁa/ |
reprocherons /ʁə.pʁɔʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
reprocherez /ʁə.pʁɔʃ.ʁe/ |
reprocheront /ʁə.pʁɔʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | reprocherais /ʁə.pʁɔʃ.ʁɛ/ |
reprocherais /ʁə.pʁɔʃ.ʁɛ/ |
reprocherait /ʁə.pʁɔʃ.ʁɛ/ |
reprocherions /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
reprocheriez /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃə.ʁje/ |
reprocheraient /ʁə.pʁɔʃ.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 | reproche /ʁə.pʁɔʃ/ |
reproches /ʁə.pʁɔʃ/ |
reproche /ʁə.pʁɔʃ/ |
reprochions /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃjɔ̃/ |
reprochiez /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃje/ |
reprochent /ʁə.pʁɔʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | reprochasse /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃas/ |
reprochasses /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃas/ |
reprochât /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃa/ |
reprochassions /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
reprochassiez /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃa.sje/ |
reprochassent /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | reproche /ʁə.pʁɔʃ/ |
— | reprochons /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃɔ̃/ |
reprochez /ʁə.pʁɔ.ʃe/ |
— | |
| 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
Descendants
- → Romanian: reproșa
Further reading
- “reprocher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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