communiquer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin commūnicāre. Doublet of communier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.my.ni.ke/

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Verb

communiquer

1. to communicate

Conjugation

Conjugation of communiquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	communiquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	communiquant /kɔ.my.ni.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		communiqué /kɔ.my.ni.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	communique /kɔ.my.nik/	communiques /kɔ.my.nik/	communique /kɔ.my.nik/	communiquons /kɔ.my.ni.kɔ̃/	communiquez /kɔ.my.ni.ke/	communiquent /kɔ.my.nik/
	imperfect	communiquais /kɔ.my.ni.kɛ/	communiquais /kɔ.my.ni.kɛ/	communiquait /kɔ.my.ni.kɛ/	communiquions /kɔ.my.ni.kjɔ̃/	communiquiez /kɔ.my.ni.kje/	communiquaient /kɔ.my.ni.kɛ/
	past historic2	communiquai /kɔ.my.ni.ke/	communiquas /kɔ.my.ni.ka/	communiqua /kɔ.my.ni.ka/	communiquâmes /kɔ.my.ni.kam/	communiquâtes /kɔ.my.ni.kat/	communiquèrent /kɔ.my.ni.kɛʁ/
	future	communiquerai /kɔ.my.ni.kʁe/	communiqueras /kɔ.my.ni.kʁa/	communiquera /kɔ.my.ni.kʁa/	communiquerons /kɔ.my.ni.kʁɔ̃/	communiquerez /kɔ.my.ni.kʁe/	communiqueront /kɔ.my.ni.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	communiquerais /kɔ.my.ni.kʁɛ/	communiquerais /kɔ.my.ni.kʁɛ/	communiquerait /kɔ.my.ni.kʁɛ/	communiquerions /kɔ.my.ni.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	communiqueriez /kɔ.my.ni.kə.ʁje/	communiqueraient /kɔ.my.ni.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	communique /kɔ.my.nik/	communiques /kɔ.my.nik/	communique /kɔ.my.nik/	communiquions /kɔ.my.ni.kjɔ̃/	communiquiez /kɔ.my.ni.kje/	communiquent /kɔ.my.nik/
	imperfect2	communiquasse /kɔ.my.ni.kas/	communiquasses /kɔ.my.ni.kas/	communiquât /kɔ.my.ni.ka/	communiquassions /kɔ.my.ni.ka.sjɔ̃/	communiquassiez /kɔ.my.ni.ka.sje/	communiquassent /kɔ.my.ni.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	communique /kɔ.my.nik/	—	communiquons /kɔ.my.ni.kɔ̃/	communiquez /kɔ.my.ni.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• communication

Further reading

• “communiquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.