raquer

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French ragier, whence English racket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.ke/

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Verb

raquer

1. (slang) to pay up
   • 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 2, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:

     —Allez faire votre fric ailleurs, suceurs ! Elle, elle est là pour nous ! Vous, vous êtes là pour qu’on raque !

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

Conjugation of raquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	raquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	raquant /ʁa.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		raqué /ʁa.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	raque /ʁak/	raques /ʁak/	raque /ʁak/	raquons /ʁa.kɔ̃/	raquez /ʁa.ke/	raquent /ʁak/
	imperfect	raquais /ʁa.kɛ/	raquais /ʁa.kɛ/	raquait /ʁa.kɛ/	raquions /ʁa.kjɔ̃/	raquiez /ʁa.kje/	raquaient /ʁa.kɛ/
	past historic2	raquai /ʁa.ke/	raquas /ʁa.ka/	raqua /ʁa.ka/	raquâmes /ʁa.kam/	raquâtes /ʁa.kat/	raquèrent /ʁa.kɛʁ/
	future	raquerai /ʁa.kʁe/	raqueras /ʁa.kʁa/	raquera /ʁa.kʁa/	raquerons /ʁa.kʁɔ̃/	raquerez /ʁa.kʁe/	raqueront /ʁa.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	raquerais /ʁa.kʁɛ/	raquerais /ʁa.kʁɛ/	raquerait /ʁa.kʁɛ/	raquerions /ʁa.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	raqueriez /ʁa.kə.ʁje/	raqueraient /ʁa.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	raque /ʁak/	raques /ʁak/	raque /ʁak/	raquions /ʁa.kjɔ̃/	raquiez /ʁa.kje/	raquent /ʁak/
	imperfect2	raquasse /ʁa.kas/	raquasses /ʁa.kas/	raquât /ʁa.ka/	raquassions /ʁa.ka.sjɔ̃/	raquassiez /ʁa.ka.sje/	raquassent /ʁa.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	raque /ʁak/	—	raquons /ʁa.kɔ̃/	raquez /ʁa.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).

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• arquer, querra