prévariquer

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin praevāricor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁe.va.ʁi.ke/

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Verb

prévariquer

1. to fail in one's duty, to be derelict in one's duty

   Synonym: manquer à son devoir

Conjugation

Conjugation of prévariquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	prévariquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	prévariquant /pʁe.va.ʁi.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		prévariqué /pʁe.va.ʁi.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	prévarique /pʁe.va.ʁik/	prévariques /pʁe.va.ʁik/	prévarique /pʁe.va.ʁik/	prévariquons /pʁe.va.ʁi.kɔ̃/	prévariquez /pʁe.va.ʁi.ke/	prévariquent /pʁe.va.ʁik/
	imperfect	prévariquais /pʁe.va.ʁi.kɛ/	prévariquais /pʁe.va.ʁi.kɛ/	prévariquait /pʁe.va.ʁi.kɛ/	prévariquions /pʁe.va.ʁi.kjɔ̃/	prévariquiez /pʁe.va.ʁi.kje/	prévariquaient /pʁe.va.ʁi.kɛ/
	past historic2	prévariquai /pʁe.va.ʁi.ke/	prévariquas /pʁe.va.ʁi.ka/	prévariqua /pʁe.va.ʁi.ka/	prévariquâmes /pʁe.va.ʁi.kam/	prévariquâtes /pʁe.va.ʁi.kat/	prévariquèrent /pʁe.va.ʁi.kɛʁ/
	future	prévariquerai /pʁe.va.ʁi.kʁe/	prévariqueras /pʁe.va.ʁi.kʁa/	prévariquera /pʁe.va.ʁi.kʁa/	prévariquerons /pʁe.va.ʁi.kʁɔ̃/	prévariquerez /pʁe.va.ʁi.kʁe/	prévariqueront /pʁe.va.ʁi.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	prévariquerais /pʁe.va.ʁi.kʁɛ/	prévariquerais /pʁe.va.ʁi.kʁɛ/	prévariquerait /pʁe.va.ʁi.kʁɛ/	prévariquerions /pʁe.va.ʁi.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	prévariqueriez /pʁe.va.ʁi.kə.ʁje/	prévariqueraient /pʁe.va.ʁi.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	prévarique /pʁe.va.ʁik/	prévariques /pʁe.va.ʁik/	prévarique /pʁe.va.ʁik/	prévariquions /pʁe.va.ʁi.kjɔ̃/	prévariquiez /pʁe.va.ʁi.kje/	prévariquent /pʁe.va.ʁik/
	imperfect2	prévariquasse /pʁe.va.ʁi.kas/	prévariquasses /pʁe.va.ʁi.kas/	prévariquât /pʁe.va.ʁi.ka/	prévariquassions /pʁe.va.ʁi.ka.sjɔ̃/	prévariquassiez /pʁe.va.ʁi.ka.sje/	prévariquassent /pʁe.va.ʁi.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	prévarique /pʁe.va.ʁik/	—	prévariquons /pʁe.va.ʁi.kɔ̃/	prévariquez /pʁe.va.ʁi.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).

Related terms

• prévarication

Further reading

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