cloquer

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin *cloccārius, from clocca (“bell”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kluˈke]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kloˈke]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kloˈkeɾ]

Noun

cloquer m (plural cloquers)

1. bell tower

   Synonym: campanar

Further reading

• “cloquer”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “cloquer” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From cloque +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klɔ.ke/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: cloqué, cloquée, cloquées, cloqués

Verb

cloquer

1. (intransitive) to blister (get blisters)
2. (transitive) to blister (raise blisters)

   Les gouttes d’huile bouillante lui avaient cloqué les mains et les bras. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. (transitive) to emboss (a textile)

   Synonym: gaufrer

Conjugation

Conjugation of cloquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cloquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cloquant /klɔ.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cloqué /klɔ.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cloque /klɔk/	cloques /klɔk/	cloque /klɔk/	cloquons /klɔ.kɔ̃/	cloquez /klɔ.ke/	cloquent /klɔk/
	imperfect	cloquais /klɔ.kɛ/	cloquais /klɔ.kɛ/	cloquait /klɔ.kɛ/	cloquions /klɔ.kjɔ̃/	cloquiez /klɔ.kje/	cloquaient /klɔ.kɛ/
	past historic2	cloquai /klɔ.ke/	cloquas /klɔ.ka/	cloqua /klɔ.ka/	cloquâmes /klɔ.kam/	cloquâtes /klɔ.kat/	cloquèrent /klɔ.kɛʁ/
	future	cloquerai /klɔ.kʁe/	cloqueras /klɔ.kʁa/	cloquera /klɔ.kʁa/	cloquerons /klɔ.kʁɔ̃/	cloquerez /klɔ.kʁe/	cloqueront /klɔ.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cloquerais /klɔ.kʁɛ/	cloquerais /klɔ.kʁɛ/	cloquerait /klɔ.kʁɛ/	cloquerions /klɔ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	cloqueriez /klɔ.kə.ʁje/	cloqueraient /klɔ.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	cloque /klɔk/	cloques /klɔk/	cloque /klɔk/	cloquions /klɔ.kjɔ̃/	cloquiez /klɔ.kje/	cloquent /klɔk/
	imperfect2	cloquasse /klɔ.kas/	cloquasses /klɔ.kas/	cloquât /klɔ.ka/	cloquassions /klɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/	cloquassiez /klɔ.ka.sje/	cloquassent /klɔ.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cloque /klɔk/	—	cloquons /klɔ.kɔ̃/	cloquez /klɔ.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).

Derived terms

• cloquage

Further reading

• “cloquer” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 9th Edition (1992-).
• “cloquer” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “cloquer” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
• “cloquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Paronyms

• claquer
• cliquer