rétorquer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin retorquēre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁe.tɔʁ.ke/
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Verb
rétorquer
- to retort
Conjugation
Conjugation of rétorquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rétorquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rétorquant /ʁe.tɔʁ.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rétorqué /ʁe.tɔʁ.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rétorque /ʁe.tɔʁk/ |
rétorques /ʁe.tɔʁk/ |
rétorque /ʁe.tɔʁk/ |
rétorquons /ʁe.tɔʁ.kɔ̃/ |
rétorquez /ʁe.tɔʁ.ke/ |
rétorquent /ʁe.tɔʁk/ |
| imperfect | rétorquais /ʁe.tɔʁ.kɛ/ |
rétorquais /ʁe.tɔʁ.kɛ/ |
rétorquait /ʁe.tɔʁ.kɛ/ |
rétorquions /ʁe.tɔʁ.kjɔ̃/ |
rétorquiez /ʁe.tɔʁ.kje/ |
rétorquaient /ʁe.tɔʁ.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rétorquai /ʁe.tɔʁ.ke/ |
rétorquas /ʁe.tɔʁ.ka/ |
rétorqua /ʁe.tɔʁ.ka/ |
rétorquâmes /ʁe.tɔʁ.kam/ |
rétorquâtes /ʁe.tɔʁ.kat/ |
rétorquèrent /ʁe.tɔʁ.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | rétorquerai /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁe/ |
rétorqueras /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁa/ |
rétorquera /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁa/ |
rétorquerons /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁɔ̃/ |
rétorquerez /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁe/ |
rétorqueront /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rétorquerais /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁɛ/ |
rétorquerais /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁɛ/ |
rétorquerait /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁɛ/ |
rétorquerions /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rétorqueriez /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁje/ |
rétorqueraient /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.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 | rétorque /ʁe.tɔʁk/ |
rétorques /ʁe.tɔʁk/ |
rétorque /ʁe.tɔʁk/ |
rétorquions /ʁe.tɔʁ.kjɔ̃/ |
rétorquiez /ʁe.tɔʁ.kje/ |
rétorquent /ʁe.tɔʁk/ |
| imperfect2 | rétorquasse /ʁe.tɔʁ.kas/ |
rétorquasses /ʁe.tɔʁ.kas/ |
rétorquât /ʁe.tɔʁ.ka/ |
rétorquassions /ʁe.tɔʁ.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
rétorquassiez /ʁe.tɔʁ.ka.sje/ |
rétorquassent /ʁe.tɔʁ.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rétorque /ʁe.tɔʁk/ |
— | rétorquons /ʁe.tɔʁ.kɔ̃/ |
rétorquez /ʁe.tɔʁ.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
- “rétorquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.