indaguer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin indāgāre.

Pronunciation

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Verb

indaguer

1. (Belgium) to investigate

Conjugation

Conjugation of indaguer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	indaguer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	indaguant /ɛ̃.da.ɡɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		indagué /ɛ̃.da.ɡe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	indague /ɛ̃.daɡ/	indagues /ɛ̃.daɡ/	indague /ɛ̃.daɡ/	indaguons /ɛ̃.da.ɡɔ̃/	indaguez /ɛ̃.da.ɡe/	indaguent /ɛ̃.daɡ/
	imperfect	indaguais /ɛ̃.da.ɡɛ/	indaguais /ɛ̃.da.ɡɛ/	indaguait /ɛ̃.da.ɡɛ/	indaguions /ɛ̃.da.ɡjɔ̃/	indaguiez /ɛ̃.da.ɡje/	indaguaient /ɛ̃.da.ɡɛ/
	past historic2	indaguai /ɛ̃.da.ɡe/	indaguas /ɛ̃.da.ɡa/	indagua /ɛ̃.da.ɡa/	indaguâmes /ɛ̃.da.ɡam/	indaguâtes /ɛ̃.da.ɡat/	indaguèrent /ɛ̃.da.ɡɛʁ/
	future	indaguerai /ɛ̃.da.ɡʁe/	indagueras /ɛ̃.da.ɡʁa/	indaguera /ɛ̃.da.ɡʁa/	indaguerons /ɛ̃.da.ɡʁɔ̃/	indaguerez /ɛ̃.da.ɡʁe/	indagueront /ɛ̃.da.ɡʁɔ̃/
	conditional	indaguerais /ɛ̃.da.ɡʁɛ/	indaguerais /ɛ̃.da.ɡʁɛ/	indaguerait /ɛ̃.da.ɡʁɛ/	indaguerions /ɛ̃.da.ɡə.ʁjɔ̃/	indagueriez /ɛ̃.da.ɡə.ʁje/	indagueraient /ɛ̃.da.ɡʁɛ/
(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	indague /ɛ̃.daɡ/	indagues /ɛ̃.daɡ/	indague /ɛ̃.daɡ/	indaguions /ɛ̃.da.ɡjɔ̃/	indaguiez /ɛ̃.da.ɡje/	indaguent /ɛ̃.daɡ/
	imperfect2	indaguasse /ɛ̃.da.ɡas/	indaguasses /ɛ̃.da.ɡas/	indaguât /ɛ̃.da.ɡa/	indaguassions /ɛ̃.da.ɡa.sjɔ̃/	indaguassiez /ɛ̃.da.ɡa.sje/	indaguassent /ɛ̃.da.ɡas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	indague /ɛ̃.daɡ/	—	indaguons /ɛ̃.da.ɡɔ̃/	indaguez /ɛ̃.da.ɡe/	—
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

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