reprocher
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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French reprochier, from Vulgar Latin *repropiāre, from prope (“nearby”). See also rapprocher.
Pronunciation
Verb
reprocher
- to blame somebody for something (place blame upon)
- Il lui reprocha ce qu’il avait fait.
- He reproached him for what he had done.
- 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.
- ”We wish to reach an orderly process,” explained the German interior minister, two days after Berlin blamed the Austrians for driving migrants to the border at night and without warning the German police.
Conjugation
| 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). | |||||||
Conjugation of reprocher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
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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