indiquer
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.di.ke/
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Verb
indiquer
- to connote (to signify beyond principal meaning)
- to show, indicate
- to prescribe
- to point to, to point out
Conjugation
Conjugation of indiquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | indiquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | indiquant /ɛ̃.di.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | indiqué /ɛ̃.di.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | indique /ɛ̃.dik/ |
indiques /ɛ̃.dik/ |
indique /ɛ̃.dik/ |
indiquons /ɛ̃.di.kɔ̃/ |
indiquez /ɛ̃.di.ke/ |
indiquent /ɛ̃.dik/ |
| imperfect | indiquais /ɛ̃.di.kɛ/ |
indiquais /ɛ̃.di.kɛ/ |
indiquait /ɛ̃.di.kɛ/ |
indiquions /ɛ̃.di.kjɔ̃/ |
indiquiez /ɛ̃.di.kje/ |
indiquaient /ɛ̃.di.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | indiquai /ɛ̃.di.ke/ |
indiquas /ɛ̃.di.ka/ |
indiqua /ɛ̃.di.ka/ |
indiquâmes /ɛ̃.di.kam/ |
indiquâtes /ɛ̃.di.kat/ |
indiquèrent /ɛ̃.di.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | indiquerai /ɛ̃.di.kʁe/ |
indiqueras /ɛ̃.di.kʁa/ |
indiquera /ɛ̃.di.kʁa/ |
indiquerons /ɛ̃.di.kʁɔ̃/ |
indiquerez /ɛ̃.di.kʁe/ |
indiqueront /ɛ̃.di.kʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | indiquerais /ɛ̃.di.kʁɛ/ |
indiquerais /ɛ̃.di.kʁɛ/ |
indiquerait /ɛ̃.di.kʁɛ/ |
indiquerions /ɛ̃.di.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
indiqueriez /ɛ̃.di.kə.ʁje/ |
indiqueraient /ɛ̃.di.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 | indique /ɛ̃.dik/ |
indiques /ɛ̃.dik/ |
indique /ɛ̃.dik/ |
indiquions /ɛ̃.di.kjɔ̃/ |
indiquiez /ɛ̃.di.kje/ |
indiquent /ɛ̃.dik/ |
| imperfect2 | indiquasse /ɛ̃.di.kas/ |
indiquasses /ɛ̃.di.kas/ |
indiquât /ɛ̃.di.ka/ |
indiquassions /ɛ̃.di.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
indiquassiez /ɛ̃.di.ka.sje/ |
indiquassent /ɛ̃.di.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | indique /ɛ̃.dik/ |
— | indiquons /ɛ̃.di.kɔ̃/ |
indiquez /ɛ̃.di.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
Related terms
Further reading
- “indiquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.