remorquer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian rimorchiare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.mɔʁ.ke/
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Verb
remorquer
- to tow (e.g. a trailer, vessel)
- Synonym: (a marine vessel) touer
Conjugation
Conjugation of remorquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | remorquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | remorquant /ʁə.mɔʁ.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | remorqué /ʁə.mɔʁ.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | remorque /ʁə.mɔʁk/ | remorques /ʁə.mɔʁk/ | remorque /ʁə.mɔʁk/ | remorquons /ʁə.mɔʁ.kɔ̃/ | remorquez /ʁə.mɔʁ.ke/ | remorquent /ʁə.mɔʁk/ |
| imperfect | remorquais /ʁə.mɔʁ.kɛ/ | remorquais /ʁə.mɔʁ.kɛ/ | remorquait /ʁə.mɔʁ.kɛ/ | remorquions /ʁə.mɔʁ.kjɔ̃/ | remorquiez /ʁə.mɔʁ.kje/ | remorquaient /ʁə.mɔʁ.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | remorquai /ʁə.mɔʁ.ke/ | remorquas /ʁə.mɔʁ.ka/ | remorqua /ʁə.mɔʁ.ka/ | remorquâmes /ʁə.mɔʁ.kam/ | remorquâtes /ʁə.mɔʁ.kat/ | remorquèrent /ʁə.mɔʁ.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | remorquerai /ʁə.mɔʁ.kə.ʁe/ | remorqueras /ʁə.mɔʁ.kə.ʁa/ | remorquera /ʁə.mɔʁ.kə.ʁa/ | remorquerons /ʁə.mɔʁ.kə.ʁɔ̃/ | remorquerez /ʁə.mɔʁ.kə.ʁe/ | remorqueront /ʁə.mɔʁ.kə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | remorquerais /ʁə.mɔʁ.kə.ʁɛ/ | remorquerais /ʁə.mɔʁ.kə.ʁɛ/ | remorquerait /ʁə.mɔʁ.kə.ʁɛ/ | remorquerions /ʁə.mɔʁ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ | remorqueriez /ʁə.mɔʁ.kə.ʁje/ | remorqueraient /ʁə.mɔʁ.kə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | remorque /ʁə.mɔʁk/ | remorques /ʁə.mɔʁk/ | remorque /ʁə.mɔʁk/ | remorquions /ʁə.mɔʁ.kjɔ̃/ | remorquiez /ʁə.mɔʁ.kje/ | remorquent /ʁə.mɔʁk/ |
| imperfect2 | remorquasse /ʁə.mɔʁ.kas/ | remorquasses /ʁə.mɔʁ.kas/ | remorquât /ʁə.mɔʁ.ka/ | remorquassions /ʁə.mɔʁ.ka.sjɔ̃/ | remorquassiez /ʁə.mɔʁ.ka.sje/ | remorquassent /ʁə.mɔʁ.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | remorque /ʁə.mɔʁk/ | — | remorquons /ʁə.mɔʁ.kɔ̃/ | remorquez /ʁə.mɔʁ.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
- remorque
- remorqueur
- remorqueuse
Descendants
- → Romanian: remorca
- Turkish: römork
Further reading
- “remorquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.