abdiquer
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ab.di.ke/
- Homophones: abdiquai, abdiqué, abdiquée, abdiquées, abdiqués, abdiquez
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Verb
abdiquer
- (ambitransitive) to abdicate (one's powers)
- Beatrix des Pays-Bas a abdiqué en 2013. ― Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicated in 2013.
- (intransitive, formal) to give up; to abandon
Conjugation
Conjugation of abdiquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | abdiquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | abdiquant /ab.di.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | abdiqué /ab.di.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | abdique /ab.dik/ |
abdiques /ab.dik/ |
abdique /ab.dik/ |
abdiquons /ab.di.kɔ̃/ |
abdiquez /ab.di.ke/ |
abdiquent /ab.dik/ |
| imperfect | abdiquais /ab.di.kɛ/ |
abdiquais /ab.di.kɛ/ |
abdiquait /ab.di.kɛ/ |
abdiquions /ab.di.kjɔ̃/ |
abdiquiez /ab.di.kje/ |
abdiquaient /ab.di.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | abdiquai /ab.di.ke/ |
abdiquas /ab.di.ka/ |
abdiqua /ab.di.ka/ |
abdiquâmes /ab.di.kam/ |
abdiquâtes /ab.di.kat/ |
abdiquèrent /ab.di.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | abdiquerai /ab.di.kʁe/ |
abdiqueras /ab.di.kʁa/ |
abdiquera /ab.di.kʁa/ |
abdiquerons /ab.di.kʁɔ̃/ |
abdiquerez /ab.di.kʁe/ |
abdiqueront /ab.di.kʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | abdiquerais /ab.di.kʁɛ/ |
abdiquerais /ab.di.kʁɛ/ |
abdiquerait /ab.di.kʁɛ/ |
abdiquerions /ab.di.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
abdiqueriez /ab.di.kə.ʁje/ |
abdiqueraient /ab.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 | abdique /ab.dik/ |
abdiques /ab.dik/ |
abdique /ab.dik/ |
abdiquions /ab.di.kjɔ̃/ |
abdiquiez /ab.di.kje/ |
abdiquent /ab.dik/ |
| imperfect2 | abdiquasse /ab.di.kas/ |
abdiquasses /ab.di.kas/ |
abdiquât /ab.di.ka/ |
abdiquassions /ab.di.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
abdiquassiez /ab.di.ka.sje/ |
abdiquassent /ab.di.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | abdique /ab.dik/ |
— | abdiquons /ab.di.kɔ̃/ |
abdiquez /ab.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). | |||||||
Related terms
Descendants
- → Bulgarian: абдики́рам (abdikíram)
- → Romanian: abdica
Further reading
- “abdiquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012