critiquer

English

Etymology

critique +‎ -er

Noun

critiquer (plural critiquers)

1. One who critiques.

French

Etymology

From critique +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁi.ti.ke/
• Homophones: critiquai, critiqué, critiquée, critiquées, critiqués, critiquez

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Verb

critiquer

1. to criticise

Conjugation

Conjugation of critiquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	critiquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	critiquant /kʁi.ti.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		critiqué /kʁi.ti.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	critique /kʁi.tik/	critiques /kʁi.tik/	critique /kʁi.tik/	critiquons /kʁi.ti.kɔ̃/	critiquez /kʁi.ti.ke/	critiquent /kʁi.tik/
	imperfect	critiquais /kʁi.ti.kɛ/	critiquais /kʁi.ti.kɛ/	critiquait /kʁi.ti.kɛ/	critiquions /kʁi.ti.kjɔ̃/	critiquiez /kʁi.ti.kje/	critiquaient /kʁi.ti.kɛ/
	past historic2	critiquai /kʁi.ti.ke/	critiquas /kʁi.ti.ka/	critiqua /kʁi.ti.ka/	critiquâmes /kʁi.ti.kam/	critiquâtes /kʁi.ti.kat/	critiquèrent /kʁi.ti.kɛʁ/
	future	critiquerai /kʁi.ti.kʁe/	critiqueras /kʁi.ti.kʁa/	critiquera /kʁi.ti.kʁa/	critiquerons /kʁi.ti.kʁɔ̃/	critiquerez /kʁi.ti.kʁe/	critiqueront /kʁi.ti.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	critiquerais /kʁi.ti.kʁɛ/	critiquerais /kʁi.ti.kʁɛ/	critiquerait /kʁi.ti.kʁɛ/	critiquerions /kʁi.ti.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	critiqueriez /kʁi.ti.kə.ʁje/	critiqueraient /kʁi.ti.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	critique /kʁi.tik/	critiques /kʁi.tik/	critique /kʁi.tik/	critiquions /kʁi.ti.kjɔ̃/	critiquiez /kʁi.ti.kje/	critiquent /kʁi.tik/
	imperfect2	critiquasse /kʁi.ti.kas/	critiquasses /kʁi.ti.kas/	critiquât /kʁi.ti.ka/	critiquassions /kʁi.ti.ka.sjɔ̃/	critiquassiez /kʁi.ti.ka.sje/	critiquassent /kʁi.ti.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	critique /kʁi.tik/	—	critiquons /kʁi.ti.kɔ̃/	critiquez /kʁi.ti.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).

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: kritike

Further reading

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