quémander

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

quémander

1. to beg (for), to cadge

Conjugation

Conjugation of quémander (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	quémander
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	quémandant /ke.mɑ̃.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		quémandé /ke.mɑ̃.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	quémande /ke.mɑ̃d/	quémandes /ke.mɑ̃d/	quémande /ke.mɑ̃d/	quémandons /ke.mɑ̃.dɔ̃/	quémandez /ke.mɑ̃.de/	quémandent /ke.mɑ̃d/
	imperfect	quémandais /ke.mɑ̃.dɛ/	quémandais /ke.mɑ̃.dɛ/	quémandait /ke.mɑ̃.dɛ/	quémandions /ke.mɑ̃.djɔ̃/	quémandiez /ke.mɑ̃.dje/	quémandaient /ke.mɑ̃.dɛ/
	past historic2	quémandai /ke.mɑ̃.de/	quémandas /ke.mɑ̃.da/	quémanda /ke.mɑ̃.da/	quémandâmes /ke.mɑ̃.dam/	quémandâtes /ke.mɑ̃.dat/	quémandèrent /ke.mɑ̃.dɛʁ/
	future	quémanderai /ke.mɑ̃.dʁe/	quémanderas /ke.mɑ̃.dʁa/	quémandera /ke.mɑ̃.dʁa/	quémanderons /ke.mɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/	quémanderez /ke.mɑ̃.dʁe/	quémanderont /ke.mɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	quémanderais /ke.mɑ̃.dʁɛ/	quémanderais /ke.mɑ̃.dʁɛ/	quémanderait /ke.mɑ̃.dʁɛ/	quémanderions /ke.mɑ̃.də.ʁjɔ̃/	quémanderiez /ke.mɑ̃.də.ʁje/	quémanderaient /ke.mɑ̃.dʁɛ/
(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	quémande /ke.mɑ̃d/	quémandes /ke.mɑ̃d/	quémande /ke.mɑ̃d/	quémandions /ke.mɑ̃.djɔ̃/	quémandiez /ke.mɑ̃.dje/	quémandent /ke.mɑ̃d/
	imperfect2	quémandasse /ke.mɑ̃.das/	quémandasses /ke.mɑ̃.das/	quémandât /ke.mɑ̃.da/	quémandassions /ke.mɑ̃.da.sjɔ̃/	quémandassiez /ke.mɑ̃.da.sje/	quémandassent /ke.mɑ̃.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	quémande /ke.mɑ̃d/	—	quémandons /ke.mɑ̃.dɔ̃/	quémandez /ke.mɑ̃.de/	—
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

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