tronquer
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁɔ̃.ke/
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Verb
tronquer
- to truncate (shorten something as if by cutting off part of it)
- to shorten, cut
Conjugation
Conjugation of tronquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | tronquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | tronquant /tʁɔ̃.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | tronqué /tʁɔ̃.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | tronque /tʁɔ̃k/ | tronques /tʁɔ̃k/ | tronque /tʁɔ̃k/ | tronquons /tʁɔ̃.kɔ̃/ | tronquez /tʁɔ̃.ke/ | tronquent /tʁɔ̃k/ |
| imperfect | tronquais /tʁɔ̃.kɛ/ | tronquais /tʁɔ̃.kɛ/ | tronquait /tʁɔ̃.kɛ/ | tronquions /tʁɔ̃.kjɔ̃/ | tronquiez /tʁɔ̃.kje/ | tronquaient /tʁɔ̃.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | tronquai /tʁɔ̃.ke/ | tronquas /tʁɔ̃.ka/ | tronqua /tʁɔ̃.ka/ | tronquâmes /tʁɔ̃.kam/ | tronquâtes /tʁɔ̃.kat/ | tronquèrent /tʁɔ̃.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | tronquerai /tʁɔ̃.kʁe/ | tronqueras /tʁɔ̃.kʁa/ | tronquera /tʁɔ̃.kʁa/ | tronquerons /tʁɔ̃.kʁɔ̃/ | tronquerez /tʁɔ̃.kʁe/ | tronqueront /tʁɔ̃.kʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tronquerais /tʁɔ̃.kʁɛ/ | tronquerais /tʁɔ̃.kʁɛ/ | tronquerait /tʁɔ̃.kʁɛ/ | tronquerions /tʁɔ̃.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ | tronqueriez /tʁɔ̃.kə.ʁje/ | tronqueraient /tʁɔ̃.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 | tronque /tʁɔ̃k/ | tronques /tʁɔ̃k/ | tronque /tʁɔ̃k/ | tronquions /tʁɔ̃.kjɔ̃/ | tronquiez /tʁɔ̃.kje/ | tronquent /tʁɔ̃k/ |
| imperfect2 | tronquasse /tʁɔ̃.kas/ | tronquasses /tʁɔ̃.kas/ | tronquât /tʁɔ̃.ka/ | tronquassions /tʁɔ̃.ka.sjɔ̃/ | tronquassiez /tʁɔ̃.ka.sje/ | tronquassent /tʁɔ̃.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | tronque /tʁɔ̃k/ | — | tronquons /tʁɔ̃.kɔ̃/ | tronquez /tʁɔ̃.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
- “tronquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- querront