colloquer
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.lɔ.ke/
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin collocāre (“set in place”). Doublet of coucher, which was inherited.
Verb
colloquer
- (transitive, archaic, rare) to lodge someone, to set up someone in a place, to establish, to install
Conjugation
Conjugation of colloquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | colloquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | colloquant /kɔ.lɔ.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | colloqué /kɔ.lɔ.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | colloque /kɔ.lɔk/ | colloques /kɔ.lɔk/ | colloque /kɔ.lɔk/ | colloquons /kɔ.lɔ.kɔ̃/ | colloquez /kɔ.lɔ.ke/ | colloquent /kɔ.lɔk/ |
| imperfect | colloquais /kɔ.lɔ.kɛ/ | colloquais /kɔ.lɔ.kɛ/ | colloquait /kɔ.lɔ.kɛ/ | colloquions /kɔ.lɔ.kjɔ̃/ | colloquiez /kɔ.lɔ.kje/ | colloquaient /kɔ.lɔ.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | colloquai /kɔ.lɔ.ke/ | colloquas /kɔ.lɔ.ka/ | colloqua /kɔ.lɔ.ka/ | colloquâmes /kɔ.lɔ.kam/ | colloquâtes /kɔ.lɔ.kat/ | colloquèrent /kɔ.lɔ.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | colloquerai /kɔ.lɔ.kʁe/ | colloqueras /kɔ.lɔ.kʁa/ | colloquera /kɔ.lɔ.kʁa/ | colloquerons /kɔ.lɔ.kʁɔ̃/ | colloquerez /kɔ.lɔ.kʁe/ | colloqueront /kɔ.lɔ.kʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | colloquerais /kɔ.lɔ.kʁɛ/ | colloquerais /kɔ.lɔ.kʁɛ/ | colloquerait /kɔ.lɔ.kʁɛ/ | colloquerions /kɔ.lɔ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ | colloqueriez /kɔ.lɔ.kə.ʁje/ | colloqueraient /kɔ.lɔ.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 | colloque /kɔ.lɔk/ | colloques /kɔ.lɔk/ | colloque /kɔ.lɔk/ | colloquions /kɔ.lɔ.kjɔ̃/ | colloquiez /kɔ.lɔ.kje/ | colloquent /kɔ.lɔk/ |
| imperfect2 | colloquasse /kɔ.lɔ.kas/ | colloquasses /kɔ.lɔ.kas/ | colloquât /kɔ.lɔ.ka/ | colloquassions /kɔ.lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/ | colloquassiez /kɔ.lɔ.ka.sje/ | colloquassent /kɔ.lɔ.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | colloque /kɔ.lɔk/ | — | colloquons /kɔ.lɔ.kɔ̃/ | colloquez /kɔ.lɔ.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). | |||||||
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin colloquor (“to speak with”).
Verb
colloquer
- (rare) to converse [+ avec (someone) = with]
Related terms
- colloque
Further reading
- “colloquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.