verminlouse

[midnight brook]

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[clear shadow]

C is pronounced /s/ before e and i but /k/ before a, o and u. So the sign under the consonant is there so that it retains the /s/ pronunciation before a, o and u.

And the radical of the verb is reçoi- in the present tense, except for the first and second plural persons. A number of verbs have this pattern.

[astral merlin]

This is how (irregular) -cevoir verbs (corresponding to -ceive verbs in English) are conjugated:
Their stem is -çoiv-, but the v disappears in the present singular (as in devoir, boire and many other irregular verbs), and the oi turns to e when it's not the last syllable in the verb (so ils reçoivent, but nous recevons, ils recevaient, il recevra)

Also worth of note: the past participle is -çu with the -ev- part dropped entirely, similarly again to devoir > dû, boire > bu or pouvoir > pu.