rétorquer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin retorqueo, retorquēre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁe.tɔʁ.ke/
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Verb
rétorquer
- to retort
Conjugation
Conjugation of rétorquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | rétorquer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | rétorquant /ʁe.tɔʁ.kɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | rétorqué /ʁe.tɔʁ.ke/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | rétorque /ʁe.tɔʁk/ | rétorques /ʁe.tɔʁk/ | rétorque /ʁe.tɔʁk/ | rétorquons /ʁe.tɔʁ.kɔ̃/ | rétorquez /ʁe.tɔʁ.ke/ | rétorquent /ʁe.tɔʁk/ |
imperfect | rétorquais /ʁe.tɔʁ.kɛ/ | rétorquais /ʁe.tɔʁ.kɛ/ | rétorquait /ʁe.tɔʁ.kɛ/ | rétorquions /ʁe.tɔʁ.kjɔ̃/ | rétorquiez /ʁe.tɔʁ.kje/ | rétorquaient /ʁe.tɔʁ.kɛ/ | |
past historic2 | rétorquai /ʁe.tɔʁ.ke/ | rétorquas /ʁe.tɔʁ.ka/ | rétorqua /ʁe.tɔʁ.ka/ | rétorquâmes /ʁe.tɔʁ.kam/ | rétorquâtes /ʁe.tɔʁ.kat/ | rétorquèrent /ʁe.tɔʁ.kɛʁ/ | |
future | rétorquerai /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁe/ | rétorqueras /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁa/ | rétorquera /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁa/ | rétorquerons /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁɔ̃/ | rétorquerez /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁe/ | rétorqueront /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | rétorquerais /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁɛ/ | rétorquerais /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁɛ/ | rétorquerait /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁɛ/ | rétorquerions /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ | rétorqueriez /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁje/ | rétorqueraient /ʁe.tɔʁ.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 | rétorque /ʁe.tɔʁk/ | rétorques /ʁe.tɔʁk/ | rétorque /ʁe.tɔʁk/ | rétorquions /ʁe.tɔʁ.kjɔ̃/ | rétorquiez /ʁe.tɔʁ.kje/ | rétorquent /ʁe.tɔʁk/ |
imperfect2 | rétorquasse /ʁe.tɔʁ.kas/ | rétorquasses /ʁe.tɔʁ.kas/ | rétorquât /ʁe.tɔʁ.ka/ | rétorquassions /ʁe.tɔʁ.ka.sjɔ̃/ | rétorquassiez /ʁe.tɔʁ.ka.sje/ | rétorquassent /ʁe.tɔʁ.kas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | rétorque /ʁe.tɔʁk/ | — | rétorquons /ʁe.tɔʁ.kɔ̃/ | rétorquez /ʁe.tɔʁ.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
- retorte
Further reading
- “rétorquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.