pratiquer
French
Etymology
From Medieval Latin prāctica (“practical affairs”, “business”), from Ancient Greek πρακτική (praktikḗ, “practice, experience”), from πρακτικός (praktikós, “practical”), from πράσσω (prássō, “I do”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʁa.ti.ke/
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Verb
pratiquer
- (transitive) to do; to practise
Conjugation
Conjugation of pratiquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | pratiquer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | pratiquant /pʁa.ti.kɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | pratiqué /pʁa.ti.ke/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | pratique /pʁa.tik/ | pratiques /pʁa.tik/ | pratique /pʁa.tik/ | pratiquons /pʁa.ti.kɔ̃/ | pratiquez /pʁa.ti.ke/ | pratiquent /pʁa.tik/ |
imperfect | pratiquais /pʁa.ti.kɛ/ | pratiquais /pʁa.ti.kɛ/ | pratiquait /pʁa.ti.kɛ/ | pratiquions /pʁa.ti.kjɔ̃/ | pratiquiez /pʁa.ti.kje/ | pratiquaient /pʁa.ti.kɛ/ | |
past historic2 | pratiquai /pʁa.ti.ke/ | pratiquas /pʁa.ti.ka/ | pratiqua /pʁa.ti.ka/ | pratiquâmes /pʁa.ti.kam/ | pratiquâtes /pʁa.ti.kat/ | pratiquèrent /pʁa.ti.kɛʁ/ | |
future | pratiquerai /pʁa.ti.kʁe/ | pratiqueras /pʁa.ti.kʁa/ | pratiquera /pʁa.ti.kʁa/ | pratiquerons /pʁa.ti.kʁɔ̃/ | pratiquerez /pʁa.ti.kʁe/ | pratiqueront /pʁa.ti.kʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | pratiquerais /pʁa.ti.kʁɛ/ | pratiquerais /pʁa.ti.kʁɛ/ | pratiquerait /pʁa.ti.kʁɛ/ | pratiquerions /pʁa.ti.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ | pratiqueriez /pʁa.ti.kə.ʁje/ | pratiqueraient /pʁa.ti.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 | pratique /pʁa.tik/ | pratiques /pʁa.tik/ | pratique /pʁa.tik/ | pratiquions /pʁa.ti.kjɔ̃/ | pratiquiez /pʁa.ti.kje/ | pratiquent /pʁa.tik/ |
imperfect2 | pratiquasse /pʁa.ti.kas/ | pratiquasses /pʁa.ti.kas/ | pratiquât /pʁa.ti.ka/ | pratiquassions /pʁa.ti.ka.sjɔ̃/ | pratiquassiez /pʁa.ti.ka.sje/ | pratiquassent /pʁa.ti.kas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | pratique /pʁa.tik/ | — | pratiquons /pʁa.ti.kɔ̃/ | pratiquez /pʁa.ti.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). |
Further reading
- “pratiquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.