compliquer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin complicāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.pli.ke/
Audio: (file) Audio (France (Somain)): (file) - Rhymes: -e
- Homophones: compliquai, compliqué, compliquée, compliquées, compliqués, compliquez
Verb
compliquer
- to complicate
- 1970, Pierre Cour, “Tu veux ou tu veux pas”, performed by Brigitte Bardot:
- La vie, pour moi elle est magnifique / Faut pas que tu la compliques
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- to elaborate
Conjugation
Conjugation of compliquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | compliquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | compliquant /kɔ̃.pli.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | compliqué /kɔ̃.pli.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | complique /kɔ̃.plik/ |
compliques /kɔ̃.plik/ |
complique /kɔ̃.plik/ |
compliquons /kɔ̃.pli.kɔ̃/ |
compliquez /kɔ̃.pli.ke/ |
compliquent /kɔ̃.plik/ |
| imperfect | compliquais /kɔ̃.pli.kɛ/ |
compliquais /kɔ̃.pli.kɛ/ |
compliquait /kɔ̃.pli.kɛ/ |
compliquions /kɔ̃.pli.kjɔ̃/ |
compliquiez /kɔ̃.pli.kje/ |
compliquaient /kɔ̃.pli.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | compliquai /kɔ̃.pli.ke/ |
compliquas /kɔ̃.pli.ka/ |
compliqua /kɔ̃.pli.ka/ |
compliquâmes /kɔ̃.pli.kam/ |
compliquâtes /kɔ̃.pli.kat/ |
compliquèrent /kɔ̃.pli.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | compliquerai /kɔ̃.pli.kʁe/ |
compliqueras /kɔ̃.pli.kʁa/ |
compliquera /kɔ̃.pli.kʁa/ |
compliquerons /kɔ̃.pli.kʁɔ̃/ |
compliquerez /kɔ̃.pli.kʁe/ |
compliqueront /kɔ̃.pli.kʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | compliquerais /kɔ̃.pli.kʁɛ/ |
compliquerais /kɔ̃.pli.kʁɛ/ |
compliquerait /kɔ̃.pli.kʁɛ/ |
compliquerions /kɔ̃.pli.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
compliqueriez /kɔ̃.pli.kə.ʁje/ |
compliqueraient /kɔ̃.pli.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 | complique /kɔ̃.plik/ |
compliques /kɔ̃.plik/ |
complique /kɔ̃.plik/ |
compliquions /kɔ̃.pli.kjɔ̃/ |
compliquiez /kɔ̃.pli.kje/ |
compliquent /kɔ̃.plik/ |
| imperfect2 | compliquasse /kɔ̃.pli.kas/ |
compliquasses /kɔ̃.pli.kas/ |
compliquât /kɔ̃.pli.ka/ |
compliquassions /kɔ̃.pli.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
compliquassiez /kɔ̃.pli.ka.sje/ |
compliquassent /kɔ̃.pli.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | complique /kɔ̃.plik/ |
— | compliquons /kɔ̃.pli.kɔ̃/ |
compliquez /kɔ̃.pli.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
- “compliquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012