bloquer
French
Etymology
From Old French bloquer, from Middle Dutch blok, from Old Dutch *blok, from Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /blɔ.ke/
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Verb
bloquer
- to block (physically), to barricade, to obstruct
- Un arbre bloque le passage.
- A tree is blocking [off] the passage.
- to jam, to wedge, to fix in place
- to freeze (e.g. prices)
- Les agriculteurs souhaitent bloquer le prix de leur blé.
- The farmers are wishing to block the price of their wheat.
- to defeat
- Ils doivent bloquer ses adversaires.
- They must defeat their opponents.
- to block, to impede, to hinder
- L’adrénaline peut ralentir ou bloquer le travail.
- Adrenaline can slow down or impede work.
- (reflexive, of a computer program) to freeze, to lock up
- (reflexive) to become jammed
- (reflexive) to retreat
Conjugation
Conjugation of bloquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | bloquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | bloquant /blɔ.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | bloqué /blɔ.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | bloque /blɔk/ | bloques /blɔk/ | bloque /blɔk/ | bloquons /blɔ.kɔ̃/ | bloquez /blɔ.ke/ | bloquent /blɔk/ |
| imperfect | bloquais /blɔ.kɛ/ | bloquais /blɔ.kɛ/ | bloquait /blɔ.kɛ/ | bloquions /blɔ.kjɔ̃/ | bloquiez /blɔ.kje/ | bloquaient /blɔ.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | bloquai /blɔ.ke/ | bloquas /blɔ.ka/ | bloqua /blɔ.ka/ | bloquâmes /blɔ.kam/ | bloquâtes /blɔ.kat/ | bloquèrent /blɔ.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | bloquerai /blɔ.kʁe/ | bloqueras /blɔ.kʁa/ | bloquera /blɔ.kʁa/ | bloquerons /blɔ.kʁɔ̃/ | bloquerez /blɔ.kʁe/ | bloqueront /blɔ.kʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | bloquerais /blɔ.kʁɛ/ | bloquerais /blɔ.kʁɛ/ | bloquerait /blɔ.kʁɛ/ | bloquerions /blɔ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ | bloqueriez /blɔ.kə.ʁje/ | bloqueraient /blɔ.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 | bloque /blɔk/ | bloques /blɔk/ | bloque /blɔk/ | bloquions /blɔ.kjɔ̃/ | bloquiez /blɔ.kje/ | bloquent /blɔk/ |
| imperfect2 | bloquasse /blɔ.kas/ | bloquasses /blɔ.kas/ | bloquât /blɔ.ka/ | bloquassions /blɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/ | bloquassiez /blɔ.ka.sje/ | bloquassent /blɔ.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | bloque /blɔk/ | — | bloquons /blɔ.kɔ̃/ | bloquez /blɔ.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- blocage
- bloque
Descendants
- → German: blockieren
- → Galician: bloquear
- → Romanian: bloca
- → Spanish: bloquear
- → Portuguese: bloquear
Further reading
- “bloquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.