béquiller
French
Etymology
béquille + -er
Pronunciation
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Verb
béquiller
- to walk with the aid of crutches
- to lower the kickstand of a motorcycle; to prop up a motorcycle on its kickstand
Conjugation
Conjugation of béquiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | béquiller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | béquillant /be.ki.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | béquillé /be.ki.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | béquille /be.kij/ | béquilles /be.kij/ | béquille /be.kij/ | béquillons /be.ki.jɔ̃/ | béquillez /be.ki.je/ | béquillent /be.kij/ |
| imperfect | béquillais /be.ki.jɛ/ | béquillais /be.ki.jɛ/ | béquillait /be.ki.jɛ/ | béquillions /be.kij.jɔ̃/ | béquilliez /be.kij.je/ | béquillaient /be.ki.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | béquillai /be.ki.je/ | béquillas /be.ki.ja/ | béquilla /be.ki.ja/ | béquillâmes /be.ki.jam/ | béquillâtes /be.ki.jat/ | béquillèrent /be.ki.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | béquillerai /be.kij.ʁe/ | béquilleras /be.kij.ʁa/ | béquillera /be.kij.ʁa/ | béquillerons /be.kij.ʁɔ̃/ | béquillerez /be.kij.ʁe/ | béquilleront /be.kij.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | béquillerais /be.kij.ʁɛ/ | béquillerais /be.kij.ʁɛ/ | béquillerait /be.kij.ʁɛ/ | béquillerions /be.ki.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ | béquilleriez /be.ki.jə.ʁje/ | béquilleraient /be.kij.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 | béquille /be.kij/ | béquilles /be.kij/ | béquille /be.kij/ | béquillions /be.kij.jɔ̃/ | béquilliez /be.kij.je/ | béquillent /be.kij/ |
| imperfect2 | béquillasse /be.ki.jas/ | béquillasses /be.ki.jas/ | béquillât /be.ki.ja/ | béquillassions /be.ki.ja.sjɔ̃/ | béquillassiez /be.ki.ja.sje/ | béquillassent /be.ki.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | béquille /be.kij/ | — | béquillons /be.ki.jɔ̃/ | béquillez /be.ki.je/ | — | |
| 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
- “béquiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.