reluquer
French
Etymology
c. 1730, from re- + luquier, second part from Middle French luquier, from Old French luquier, borrowed from Middle Dutch loeken, from Old Dutch *lōkon, from Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn (“to look”), akin to English look.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.ly.ke/
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Verb
reluquer
- to ogle, leer
- Synonym: mater
- 2025 May 18, Hélène Brunet-Rivaillon, “Le surf est-il réac ?”, in Le Monde:
- « On se sent reluquées comme des bouts de viande », résume Léana […] , surfeuse bretonne de 29 ans, pour décrire le sentiment qu'elle partage avec son groupe d'amies lorsqu'elles arrivent sur la plage.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of reluquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | reluquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | reluquant /ʁə.ly.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | reluqué /ʁə.ly.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | reluque /ʁə.lyk/ |
reluques /ʁə.lyk/ |
reluque /ʁə.lyk/ |
reluquons /ʁə.ly.kɔ̃/ |
reluquez /ʁə.ly.ke/ |
reluquent /ʁə.lyk/ |
| imperfect | reluquais /ʁə.ly.kɛ/ |
reluquais /ʁə.ly.kɛ/ |
reluquait /ʁə.ly.kɛ/ |
reluquions /ʁə.ly.kjɔ̃/ |
reluquiez /ʁə.ly.kje/ |
reluquaient /ʁə.ly.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | reluquai /ʁə.ly.ke/ |
reluquas /ʁə.ly.ka/ |
reluqua /ʁə.ly.ka/ |
reluquâmes /ʁə.ly.kam/ |
reluquâtes /ʁə.ly.kat/ |
reluquèrent /ʁə.ly.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | reluquerai /ʁə.ly.kʁe/ |
reluqueras /ʁə.ly.kʁa/ |
reluquera /ʁə.ly.kʁa/ |
reluquerons /ʁə.ly.kʁɔ̃/ |
reluquerez /ʁə.ly.kʁe/ |
reluqueront /ʁə.ly.kʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | reluquerais /ʁə.ly.kʁɛ/ |
reluquerais /ʁə.ly.kʁɛ/ |
reluquerait /ʁə.ly.kʁɛ/ |
reluquerions /ʁə.ly.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
reluqueriez /ʁə.ly.kə.ʁje/ |
reluqueraient /ʁə.ly.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 | reluque /ʁə.lyk/ |
reluques /ʁə.lyk/ |
reluque /ʁə.lyk/ |
reluquions /ʁə.ly.kjɔ̃/ |
reluquiez /ʁə.ly.kje/ |
reluquent /ʁə.lyk/ |
| imperfect2 | reluquasse /ʁə.ly.kas/ |
reluquasses /ʁə.ly.kas/ |
reluquât /ʁə.ly.ka/ |
reluquassions /ʁə.ly.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
reluquassiez /ʁə.ly.ka.sje/ |
reluquassent /ʁə.ly.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | reluque /ʁə.lyk/ |
— | reluquons /ʁə.ly.kɔ̃/ |
reluquez /ʁə.ly.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
- “reluquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.