trafiquer

French

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Verb

trafiquer

1. to traffic (e.g. drugs)
2. to tamper with

Conjugation

Conjugation of trafiquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	trafiquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	trafiquant /tʁa.fi.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		trafiqué /tʁa.fi.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	trafique /tʁa.fik/	trafiques /tʁa.fik/	trafique /tʁa.fik/	trafiquons /tʁa.fi.kɔ̃/	trafiquez /tʁa.fi.ke/	trafiquent /tʁa.fik/
	imperfect	trafiquais /tʁa.fi.kɛ/	trafiquais /tʁa.fi.kɛ/	trafiquait /tʁa.fi.kɛ/	trafiquions /tʁa.fi.kjɔ̃/	trafiquiez /tʁa.fi.kje/	trafiquaient /tʁa.fi.kɛ/
	past historic2	trafiquai /tʁa.fi.ke/	trafiquas /tʁa.fi.ka/	trafiqua /tʁa.fi.ka/	trafiquâmes /tʁa.fi.kam/	trafiquâtes /tʁa.fi.kat/	trafiquèrent /tʁa.fi.kɛʁ/
	future	trafiquerai /tʁa.fi.kʁe/	trafiqueras /tʁa.fi.kʁa/	trafiquera /tʁa.fi.kʁa/	trafiquerons /tʁa.fi.kʁɔ̃/	trafiquerez /tʁa.fi.kʁe/	trafiqueront /tʁa.fi.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	trafiquerais /tʁa.fi.kʁɛ/	trafiquerais /tʁa.fi.kʁɛ/	trafiquerait /tʁa.fi.kʁɛ/	trafiquerions /tʁa.fi.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	trafiqueriez /tʁa.fi.kə.ʁje/	trafiqueraient /tʁa.fi.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	trafique /tʁa.fik/	trafiques /tʁa.fik/	trafique /tʁa.fik/	trafiquions /tʁa.fi.kjɔ̃/	trafiquiez /tʁa.fi.kje/	trafiquent /tʁa.fik/
	imperfect2	trafiquasse /tʁa.fi.kas/	trafiquasses /tʁa.fi.kas/	trafiquât /tʁa.fi.ka/	trafiquassions /tʁa.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/	trafiquassiez /tʁa.fi.ka.sje/	trafiquassent /tʁa.fi.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	trafique /tʁa.fik/	—	trafiquons /tʁa.fi.kɔ̃/	trafiquez /tʁa.fi.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

• trafic

Further reading

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