requérir
See also: requerir
French
Etymology
From Middle French requerir, from Old French requerre (with a conjugation change as with quérir), from Latin requirō, requirere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.ke.ʁiʁ/
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Verb
requérir
- to call for, to require
- to request, to summon
- to demand
- to need
Conjugation
Conjugation of requérir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | requérir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | requérant /ʁə.ke.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | requis /ʁə.ki/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | requiers /ʁə.kjɛʁ/ | requiers /ʁə.kjɛʁ/ | requiert /ʁə.kjɛʁ/ | requérons /ʁə.ke.ʁɔ̃/ | requérez /ʁə.ke.ʁe/ | requièrent /ʁə.kjɛʁ/ |
| imperfect | requérais /ʁə.ke.ʁɛ/ | requérais /ʁə.ke.ʁɛ/ | requérait /ʁə.ke.ʁɛ/ | requérions /ʁə.ke.ʁjɔ̃/ | requériez /ʁə.ke.ʁje/ | requéraient /ʁə.ke.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | requis /ʁə.ki/ | requis /ʁə.ki/ | requit /ʁə.ki/ | requîmes /ʁə.kim/ | requîtes /ʁə.kit/ | requirent /ʁə.kiʁ/ | |
| future | requerrai /ʁə.kɛ.ʁe/ or /ʁə.ke.ʁe/ | requerras /ʁə.kɛ.ʁa/ or /ʁə.ke.ʁa/ | requerra /ʁə.kɛ.ʁa/ or /ʁə.ke.ʁa/ | requerrons /ʁə.kɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.ke.ʁɔ̃/ | requerrez /ʁə.kɛ.ʁe/ or /ʁə.ke.ʁe/ | requerront /ʁə.kɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.ke.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | requerrais /ʁə.kɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.ke.ʁɛ/ | requerrais /ʁə.kɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.ke.ʁɛ/ | requerrait /ʁə.kɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.ke.ʁɛ/ | requerrions /ʁə.kɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.ke.ʁjɔ̃/ | requerriez /ʁə.kɛ.ʁje/ or /ʁə.ke.ʁje/ | requerraient /ʁə.kɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.ke.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 | requière /ʁə.kjɛʁ/ | requières /ʁə.kjɛʁ/ | requière /ʁə.kjɛʁ/ | requérions /ʁə.ke.ʁjɔ̃/ | requériez /ʁə.ke.ʁje/ | requièrent /ʁə.kjɛʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | requisse /ʁə.kis/ | requisses /ʁə.kis/ | requît /ʁə.ki/ | requissions /ʁə.ki.sjɔ̃/ | requissiez /ʁə.ki.sje/ | requissent /ʁə.kis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | requiers /ʁə.kjɛʁ/ | — | requérons /ʁə.ke.ʁɔ̃/ | requérez /ʁə.ke.ʁe/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Synonyms
- demander
- nécessiter
- exiger
- avoir besoin (de)
Related terms
- requête
- réquisition
- réquisitoire
Further reading
- “requérir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.