cliquer
French
Etymology
Of imitative origin. Compare Germanic cognates such as German klecken, klicken (“to click”), Danish klikke (“to click”), Swedish klicka (“to click”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kli.ke/
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Verb
cliquer
- (computing, intransitive) to click
- Tu dois cliquer sur le bouton rouge. ― You must click [on] the red button.
Conjugation
Conjugation of cliquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | cliquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cliquant /kli.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | cliqué /kli.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | clique /klik/ | cliques /klik/ | clique /klik/ | cliquons /kli.kɔ̃/ | cliquez /kli.ke/ | cliquent /klik/ |
| imperfect | cliquais /kli.kɛ/ | cliquais /kli.kɛ/ | cliquait /kli.kɛ/ | cliquions /kli.kjɔ̃/ | cliquiez /kli.kje/ | cliquaient /kli.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cliquai /kli.ke/ | cliquas /kli.ka/ | cliqua /kli.ka/ | cliquâmes /kli.kam/ | cliquâtes /kli.kat/ | cliquèrent /kli.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | cliquerai /kli.kʁe/ | cliqueras /kli.kʁa/ | cliquera /kli.kʁa/ | cliquerons /kli.kʁɔ̃/ | cliquerez /kli.kʁe/ | cliqueront /kli.kʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | cliquerais /kli.kʁɛ/ | cliquerais /kli.kʁɛ/ | cliquerait /kli.kʁɛ/ | cliquerions /kli.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ | cliqueriez /kli.kə.ʁje/ | cliqueraient /kli.kʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | clique /klik/ | cliques /klik/ | clique /klik/ | cliquions /kli.kjɔ̃/ | cliquiez /kli.kje/ | cliquent /klik/ |
| imperfect2 | cliquasse /kli.kas/ | cliquasses /kli.kas/ | cliquât /kli.ka/ | cliquassions /kli.ka.sjɔ̃/ | cliquassiez /kli.ka.sje/ | cliquassent /kli.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | clique /klik/ | — | cliquons /kli.kɔ̃/ | cliquez /kli.ke/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
- clic
Further reading
- “cliquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.