recuperate – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of recuperate

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to recuperate
Participle: recuperated
Gerund: recuperating

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Irecuperate
yourecuperate
he;she;itrecuperates
werecuperate
yourecuperate
theyrecuperate

Perfect

Ihave recuperated
youhave recuperated
he;she;ithas recuperated
wehave recuperated
youhave recuperated
theyhave recuperated

Past

Irecuperated
yourecuperated
he;she;itrecuperated
werecuperated
yourecuperated
theyrecuperated

Pluperfect

Ihad recuperated
youhad recuperated
he;she;ithad recuperated
wehad recuperated
youhad recuperated
theyhad recuperated

Future

Iwill recuperate
youwill recuperate
he;she;itwill recuperate
wewill recuperate
youwill recuperate
theywill recuperate

Future Perfect

Iwill have recuperated
youwill have recuperated
he;she;itwill have recuperated
wewill have recuperated
youwill have recuperated
theywill have recuperated

Subjunctive

Present

Irecuperate
yourecuperate
he;she;itrecuperate
werecuperate
yourecuperate
theyrecuperate

Perfect

Ihave recuperated
youhave recuperated
he;she;ithave recuperated
wehave recuperated
youhave recuperated
theyhave recuperated

Imperfect

Irecuperated
yourecuperated
he;she;itrecuperated
werecuperated
yourecuperated
theyrecuperated

Pluperfect

Ihad recuperated
youhad recuperated
he;she;ithad recuperated
wehad recuperated
youhad recuperated
theyhad recuperated

Conditional

Present

Iwould recuperate
youwould recuperate
he;she;itwould recuperate
wewould recuperate
youwould recuperate
theywould recuperate

Perfect

Iwould have recuperated
youwould have recuperated
he;she;itwould have recuperated
wewould have recuperated
youwould have recuperated
theywould have recuperated

Imperative

yourecuperate
weLet's recuperate
yourecuperate

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam recuperating
youare recuperating
he;she;itis recuperating
weare recuperating
youare recuperating
theyare recuperating

Perfect

Ihave been recuperating
youhave been recuperating
he;she;ithas been recuperating
wehave been recuperating
youhave been recuperating
theyhave been recuperating

Past

Iwas recuperating
youwere recuperating
he;she;itwas recuperating
wewere recuperating
youwere recuperating
theywere recuperating

Pluperfect

Ihad been recuperating
youhad been recuperating
he;she;ithad been recuperating
wehad been recuperating
youhad been recuperating
theyhad been recuperating

Future

Iwill be recuperating
youwill be recuperating
he;she;itwill be recuperating
wewill be recuperating
youwill be recuperating
theywill be recuperating

Future Perfect

Iwill have been recuperating
youwill have been recuperating
he;she;itwill have been recuperating
wewill have been recuperating
youwill have been recuperating
theywill have been recuperating

Conditional

Present

Iwould be recuperating
youwould be recuperating
he;she;itwould be recuperating
wewould be recuperating
youwould be recuperating
theywould be recuperating

Perfect

Iwould have been recuperating
youwould have been recuperating
he;she;itwould have been recuperating
wewould have been recuperating
youwould have been recuperating
theywould have been recuperating

Other

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

revive
rally, improve, recover

Antonyms

revive
kill, rot, perish, shrivel

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin recuperāre, alternative form of reciperāre (“get again, regain, recover”). Doublet of recover. The pronunciation without /j/ may have been influenced by the semantically similar, but etymologically distinct verb recoup. See: Latin 'recupero'.

Sample Sentences

  • As you recuperate, you’ll crave / the life lived by the knave, behave! [2026 May 26, “‘Today’ (A Tetraquartet) and Other Poetry by Paul Millan”, in The Society of Classical Poets:]
  • [...] of each province in 1842 and 1894 - that is, before the Taiping rebellion, and since China has recuperated her forces. [1901, Edward Harper Parker, China, Her History, Diplomacy, and Commerce: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day, London : Murray, page 191:]
  • [...] one of many female poets who was trivialized and misrepresented for decades. When William Wordsworth recuperated her by praising her “Nocturnal Reverie,” he set what became a limiting factor in Finch's recovery: he treated her as a pre-Romantic ppoet of nature, and she became resituated in literary history as a much flatter or less complicated poet than she was in her lifetime. [2015 March 9, Gary Day, Jack Lynch, The Encyclopedia of British Literature, 3 Volume Set: 1660 - 1789, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 494:]
  • In LS, July emerges as a survivor and a storyteller with a traumatic past who has recuperated her relationship with her lost son. Her questioning and humorously subversive discourse gives emotional and textual depth to […] [2015 August 1, Cristina Herrera, Paula Sanmartín, Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text; Essays on Caribbean Women's Writing, Demeter Press, →ISBN:]
  • Mannheim's purpose when elaborating his typology of ideology was, as we have seen above, to recuperate the concept of ideology for scientific politics, after having discarded elements of Manichean egocentricity. [1991, Joseph Gabel, Karl Mannheim and Hungarian Marxism, page 87:]
  • She sought ultimately to recuperate the classical concept of the public realm against what she described, in negative terms, as the "rise of the social" characteristic of the modern world. [1999, Jonathan M. Hess, Reconstituting the Body Politic, page 24:]
  • […] there is also the danger […] that such a critique recuperates gender in terms that quite literally invisiblize the very issues of race and ethnicity […] [2002, Roger Beebe, Denise Fulbrook, Ben Saunders, Rock Over the Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture:]
  • The fact that even many of the harshest critics of environmental thought have sought to somehow recuperate the concept reflects how deeply it has become embedded in our discourse. [2020, Etienne S. Benson, Surroundings: A History of Environments and Environmentalisms, page 6:]