braquer
French
Etymology
Uncertain.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bʁa.ke/
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Verb
braquer
- to point (a gun, camera etc.) [with sur or vers ‘at someone, something’]
- to turn (one’s eyes) [with sur or vers ‘to someone, something’]
- to make a hard turn, turn hard
- (colloquial) to stick up, rob (a bank)
- 1968, Serge Gainsbourg, “Bonnie and Clyde”, in Initials B.B., performed by Serge Gainsbourg ft. Brigitte Bardot:
- Chaque fois qu'un policeman se fait buter / Qu'un garage ou qu'une banque se fait braquer
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (reflexive) to get one's back up, feel defensive, balk
- 2014, Édouard Louis, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule [The End of Eddy], Le Seuil:
- Mes parents se braquaient, ils refusaient de prêter attention aux ragots.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of braquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | braquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | braquant /bʁa.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | braqué /bʁa.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | braque /bʁak/ |
braques /bʁak/ |
braque /bʁak/ |
braquons /bʁa.kɔ̃/ |
braquez /bʁa.ke/ |
braquent /bʁak/ |
| imperfect | braquais /bʁa.kɛ/ |
braquais /bʁa.kɛ/ |
braquait /bʁa.kɛ/ |
braquions /bʁa.kjɔ̃/ |
braquiez /bʁa.kje/ |
braquaient /bʁa.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | braquai /bʁa.ke/ |
braquas /bʁa.ka/ |
braqua /bʁa.ka/ |
braquâmes /bʁa.kam/ |
braquâtes /bʁa.kat/ |
braquèrent /bʁa.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | braquerai /bʁa.kʁe/ |
braqueras /bʁa.kʁa/ |
braquera /bʁa.kʁa/ |
braquerons /bʁa.kʁɔ̃/ |
braquerez /bʁa.kʁe/ |
braqueront /bʁa.kʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | braquerais /bʁa.kʁɛ/ |
braquerais /bʁa.kʁɛ/ |
braquerait /bʁa.kʁɛ/ |
braquerions /bʁa.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
braqueriez /bʁa.kə.ʁje/ |
braqueraient /bʁa.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 | braque /bʁak/ |
braques /bʁak/ |
braque /bʁak/ |
braquions /bʁa.kjɔ̃/ |
braquiez /bʁa.kje/ |
braquent /bʁak/ |
| imperfect2 | braquasse /bʁa.kas/ |
braquasses /bʁa.kas/ |
braquât /bʁa.ka/ |
braquassions /bʁa.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
braquassiez /bʁa.ka.sje/ |
braquassent /bʁa.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | braque /bʁak/ |
— | braquons /bʁa.kɔ̃/ |
braquez /bʁa.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
Further reading
- “braquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.