pratiquer

French edit

Etymology edit

From Medieval Latin prāctica (“practical affairs”, “business”), from Ancient Greek πρακτική (praktikḗ, “practice, experience”), from πρακτικός (praktikós, “practical”), from πράσσω (prássō, “to do”).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /pʁa.ti.ke/
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Verb edit

pratiquer

(transitive) to do; to practise

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of pratiquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	pratiquer
present participle or gerund¹	simple	pratiquant /pʁa.ti.kɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pratiqué /pʁa.ti.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pratique /pʁa.tik/	pratiques /pʁa.tik/	pratique /pʁa.tik/	pratiquons /pʁa.ti.kɔ̃/	pratiquez /pʁa.ti.ke/	pratiquent /pʁa.tik/
	imperfect	pratiquais /pʁa.ti.kɛ/	pratiquais /pʁa.ti.kɛ/	pratiquait /pʁa.ti.kɛ/	pratiquions /pʁa.ti.kjɔ̃/	pratiquiez /pʁa.ti.kje/	pratiquaient /pʁa.ti.kɛ/
	past historic²	pratiquai /pʁa.ti.ke/	pratiquas /pʁa.ti.ka/	pratiqua /pʁa.ti.ka/	pratiquâmes /pʁa.ti.kam/	pratiquâtes /pʁa.ti.kat/	pratiquèrent /pʁa.ti.kɛʁ/
	future	pratiquerai /pʁa.ti.kʁe/	pratiqueras /pʁa.ti.kʁa/	pratiquera /pʁa.ti.kʁa/	pratiquerons /pʁa.ti.kʁɔ̃/	pratiquerez /pʁa.ti.kʁe/	pratiqueront /pʁa.ti.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pratiquerais /pʁa.ti.kʁɛ/	pratiquerais /pʁa.ti.kʁɛ/	pratiquerait /pʁa.ti.kʁɛ/	pratiquerions /pʁa.ti.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	pratiqueriez /pʁa.ti.kə.ʁje/	pratiqueraient /pʁa.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	pratique /pʁa.tik/	pratiques /pʁa.tik/	pratique /pʁa.tik/	pratiquions /pʁa.ti.kjɔ̃/	pratiquiez /pʁa.ti.kje/	pratiquent /pʁa.tik/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	pratiquasse /pʁa.ti.kas/	pratiquasses /pʁa.ti.kas/	pratiquât /pʁa.ti.ka/	pratiquassions /pʁa.ti.ka.sjɔ̃/	pratiquassiez /pʁa.ti.ka.sje/	pratiquassent /pʁa.ti.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	pratique /pʁa.tik/	—	pratiquons /pʁa.ti.kɔ̃/	pratiquez /pʁa.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).