Recevriez

Recevriez is the second-person plural present conditional form of the French verb recevoir, meaning you would receive. It is used to express hypothetical outcomes, or to make polite or cautious statements about what could happen.

In French, the present conditional is formed with the stem of the future tense (recevr-) plus the conditional endings (-ais, -ais, -ait, -ions, -iez, -aient). The full set in the present conditional is: je recevrais, tu recevrais, il/elle recevrait, nous recevrions, vous recevriez, ils/elles recevraient.

Usage notes include the conditional’s role in hypothetical situations and polite requests. For example: Vous recevriez une invitation si vous étiez sur la liste. This sentence uses recevriez in the main clause to describe a potential outcome. Another usage is in questions or polite inquiries: Recevriez-vous ce document si vous le trouviez?

Etymology and morphology: recevoir comes from the Latin recipere, and the form recevr- in the conditional reflects the future stem adopted in several French verbs. The ending -iez marks the second-person plural in the present conditional.

Related forms include the other conjugations of recevoir in the conditional mood (je recevrais, tu recevrais, il recevrait, nous recevrions, ils recevraient) and the related noun réception, which shares the same root. recevriez is therefore a typical example of how French uses a single stem to create multiple mood and tense forms.