souquer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan socar, from soca (“stump, stock”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.ke/

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Verb

souquer

1. (transitive, nautical) to heave (pull hard on a rope, oars, etc.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of souquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	souquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	souquant /su.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		souqué /su.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	souque /suk/	souques /suk/	souque /suk/	souquons /su.kɔ̃/	souquez /su.ke/	souquent /suk/
	imperfect	souquais /su.kɛ/	souquais /su.kɛ/	souquait /su.kɛ/	souquions /su.kjɔ̃/	souquiez /su.kje/	souquaient /su.kɛ/
	past historic2	souquai /su.ke/	souquas /su.ka/	souqua /su.ka/	souquâmes /su.kam/	souquâtes /su.kat/	souquèrent /su.kɛʁ/
	future	souquerai /su.kʁe/	souqueras /su.kʁa/	souquera /su.kʁa/	souquerons /su.kʁɔ̃/	souquerez /su.kʁe/	souqueront /su.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	souquerais /su.kʁɛ/	souquerais /su.kʁɛ/	souquerait /su.kʁɛ/	souquerions /su.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	souqueriez /su.kə.ʁje/	souqueraient /su.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	souque /suk/	souques /suk/	souque /suk/	souquions /su.kjɔ̃/	souquiez /su.kje/	souquent /suk/
	imperfect2	souquasse /su.kas/	souquasses /su.kas/	souquât /su.ka/	souquassions /su.ka.sjɔ̃/	souquassiez /su.ka.sje/	souquassent /su.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	souque /suk/	—	souquons /su.kɔ̃/	souquez /su.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

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