conquérir

See also: conquerir

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French conquerre (under the influence of quérir), from Latin conquaerere, from conquirere, present active infinitive of conquirō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.ke.ʁiʁ/

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Verb

conquérir

1. (transitive) to conquer, to capture
2. (transitive) to win, to win over

Conjugation

Conjugation of conquérir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	conquérir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	conquérant /kɔ̃.ke.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		conquis /kɔ̃.ki/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	conquiers /kɔ̃.kjɛʁ/	conquiers /kɔ̃.kjɛʁ/	conquiert /kɔ̃.kjɛʁ/	conquérons /kɔ̃.ke.ʁɔ̃/	conquérez /kɔ̃.ke.ʁe/	conquièrent /kɔ̃.kjɛʁ/
	imperfect	conquérais /kɔ̃.ke.ʁɛ/	conquérais /kɔ̃.ke.ʁɛ/	conquérait /kɔ̃.ke.ʁɛ/	conquérions /kɔ̃.ke.ʁjɔ̃/	conquériez /kɔ̃.ke.ʁje/	conquéraient /kɔ̃.ke.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	conquis /kɔ̃.ki/	conquis /kɔ̃.ki/	conquit /kɔ̃.ki/	conquîmes /kɔ̃.kim/	conquîtes /kɔ̃.kit/	conquirent /kɔ̃.kiʁ/
	future	conquerrai /kɔ̃.kɛ.ʁe/ or /kɔ̃.ke.ʁe/	conquerras /kɔ̃.kɛ.ʁa/ or /kɔ̃.ke.ʁa/	conquerra /kɔ̃.kɛ.ʁa/ or /kɔ̃.ke.ʁa/	conquerrons /kɔ̃.kɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /kɔ̃.ke.ʁɔ̃/	conquerrez /kɔ̃.kɛ.ʁe/ or /kɔ̃.ke.ʁe/	conquerront /kɔ̃.kɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /kɔ̃.ke.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	conquerrais /kɔ̃.kɛ.ʁɛ/ or /kɔ̃.ke.ʁɛ/	conquerrais /kɔ̃.kɛ.ʁɛ/ or /kɔ̃.ke.ʁɛ/	conquerrait /kɔ̃.kɛ.ʁɛ/ or /kɔ̃.ke.ʁɛ/	conquerrions /kɔ̃.kɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /kɔ̃.ke.ʁjɔ̃/	conquerriez /kɔ̃.kɛ.ʁje/ or /kɔ̃.ke.ʁje/	conquerraient /kɔ̃.kɛ.ʁɛ/ or /kɔ̃.ke.ʁɛ/
(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	conquière /kɔ̃.kjɛʁ/	conquières /kɔ̃.kjɛʁ/	conquière /kɔ̃.kjɛʁ/	conquérions /kɔ̃.ke.ʁjɔ̃/	conquériez /kɔ̃.ke.ʁje/	conquièrent /kɔ̃.kjɛʁ/
	imperfect2	conquisse /kɔ̃.kis/	conquisses /kɔ̃.kis/	conquît /kɔ̃.ki/	conquissions /kɔ̃.ki.sjɔ̃/	conquissiez /kɔ̃.ki.sje/	conquissent /kɔ̃.kis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	conquiers /kɔ̃.kjɛʁ/	—	conquérons /kɔ̃.ke.ʁɔ̃/	conquérez /kɔ̃.ke.ʁe/	—
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).

Synonyms

• vaincre
• surmonter
• capturer, prendre

Derived terms

• conquête (n.): conquest
• conquérant/-ante (n.): conqueror

Further reading

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