claudiquer

French

Etymology

Back-formation from claudicant, or learned borrowing from Latin claudicāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klo.di.ke/

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Verb

claudiquer

1. to limp

   Synonym: boiter

Conjugation

Conjugation of claudiquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	claudiquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	claudiquant /klo.di.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		claudiqué /klo.di.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	claudique /klo.dik/	claudiques /klo.dik/	claudique /klo.dik/	claudiquons /klo.di.kɔ̃/	claudiquez /klo.di.ke/	claudiquent /klo.dik/
	imperfect	claudiquais /klo.di.kɛ/	claudiquais /klo.di.kɛ/	claudiquait /klo.di.kɛ/	claudiquions /klo.di.kjɔ̃/	claudiquiez /klo.di.kje/	claudiquaient /klo.di.kɛ/
	past historic2	claudiquai /klo.di.ke/	claudiquas /klo.di.ka/	claudiqua /klo.di.ka/	claudiquâmes /klo.di.kam/	claudiquâtes /klo.di.kat/	claudiquèrent /klo.di.kɛʁ/
	future	claudiquerai /klo.di.kʁe/	claudiqueras /klo.di.kʁa/	claudiquera /klo.di.kʁa/	claudiquerons /klo.di.kʁɔ̃/	claudiquerez /klo.di.kʁe/	claudiqueront /klo.di.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	claudiquerais /klo.di.kʁɛ/	claudiquerais /klo.di.kʁɛ/	claudiquerait /klo.di.kʁɛ/	claudiquerions /klo.di.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	claudiqueriez /klo.di.kə.ʁje/	claudiqueraient /klo.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	claudique /klo.dik/	claudiques /klo.dik/	claudique /klo.dik/	claudiquions /klo.di.kjɔ̃/	claudiquiez /klo.di.kje/	claudiquent /klo.dik/
	imperfect2	claudiquasse /klo.di.kas/	claudiquasses /klo.di.kas/	claudiquât /klo.di.ka/	claudiquassions /klo.di.ka.sjɔ̃/	claudiquassiez /klo.di.ka.sje/	claudiquassent /klo.di.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	claudique /klo.dik/	—	claudiquons /klo.di.kɔ̃/	claudiquez /klo.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: 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).

Further reading

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