communiquer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin commūnicāre. Doublet of communier.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.my.ni.ke/
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Verb
communiquer
- to communicate
Conjugation
Conjugation of communiquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | communiquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | communiquant /kɔ.my.ni.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | communiqué /kɔ.my.ni.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | communique /kɔ.my.nik/ |
communiques /kɔ.my.nik/ |
communique /kɔ.my.nik/ |
communiquons /kɔ.my.ni.kɔ̃/ |
communiquez /kɔ.my.ni.ke/ |
communiquent /kɔ.my.nik/ |
| imperfect | communiquais /kɔ.my.ni.kɛ/ |
communiquais /kɔ.my.ni.kɛ/ |
communiquait /kɔ.my.ni.kɛ/ |
communiquions /kɔ.my.ni.kjɔ̃/ |
communiquiez /kɔ.my.ni.kje/ |
communiquaient /kɔ.my.ni.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | communiquai /kɔ.my.ni.ke/ |
communiquas /kɔ.my.ni.ka/ |
communiqua /kɔ.my.ni.ka/ |
communiquâmes /kɔ.my.ni.kam/ |
communiquâtes /kɔ.my.ni.kat/ |
communiquèrent /kɔ.my.ni.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | communiquerai /kɔ.my.ni.kʁe/ |
communiqueras /kɔ.my.ni.kʁa/ |
communiquera /kɔ.my.ni.kʁa/ |
communiquerons /kɔ.my.ni.kʁɔ̃/ |
communiquerez /kɔ.my.ni.kʁe/ |
communiqueront /kɔ.my.ni.kʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | communiquerais /kɔ.my.ni.kʁɛ/ |
communiquerais /kɔ.my.ni.kʁɛ/ |
communiquerait /kɔ.my.ni.kʁɛ/ |
communiquerions /kɔ.my.ni.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
communiqueriez /kɔ.my.ni.kə.ʁje/ |
communiqueraient /kɔ.my.ni.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 | communique /kɔ.my.nik/ |
communiques /kɔ.my.nik/ |
communique /kɔ.my.nik/ |
communiquions /kɔ.my.ni.kjɔ̃/ |
communiquiez /kɔ.my.ni.kje/ |
communiquent /kɔ.my.nik/ |
| imperfect2 | communiquasse /kɔ.my.ni.kas/ |
communiquasses /kɔ.my.ni.kas/ |
communiquât /kɔ.my.ni.ka/ |
communiquassions /kɔ.my.ni.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
communiquassiez /kɔ.my.ni.ka.sje/ |
communiquassent /kɔ.my.ni.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | communique /kɔ.my.nik/ |
— | communiquons /kɔ.my.ni.kɔ̃/ |
communiquez /kɔ.my.ni.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
Further reading
- “communiquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.