traquer
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French trac, from Old French trac (“a track, trace, a beaten path, course”), from Middle Dutch treck, treke (“a drawing, draft, delineation, feature, train, procession, line or flourish with a pen, sketch”), from Old Dutch *trecken, from Proto-Germanic *trakjaną (“to drag”). More at track, trek.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
traquer
- to track, follow
- to track down, hunt down; to hound
ConjugationEdit
Conjugation of traquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | traquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | traquant /tʁa.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | traqué /tʁa.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | traque /tʁak/ |
traques /tʁak/ |
traque /tʁak/ |
traquons /tʁa.kɔ̃/ |
traquez /tʁa.ke/ |
traquent /tʁak/ |
| imperfect | traquais /tʁa.kɛ/ |
traquais /tʁa.kɛ/ |
traquait /tʁa.kɛ/ |
traquions /tʁa.kjɔ̃/ |
traquiez /tʁa.kje/ |
traquaient /tʁa.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | traquai /tʁa.ke/ |
traquas /tʁa.ka/ |
traqua /tʁa.ka/ |
traquâmes /tʁa.kam/ |
traquâtes /tʁa.kat/ |
traquèrent /tʁa.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | traquerai /tʁa.kʁe/ |
traqueras /tʁa.kʁa/ |
traquera /tʁa.kʁa/ |
traquerons /tʁa.kʁɔ̃/ |
traquerez /tʁa.kʁe/ |
traqueront /tʁa.kʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | traquerais /tʁa.kʁɛ/ |
traquerais /tʁa.kʁɛ/ |
traquerait /tʁa.kʁɛ/ |
traquerions /tʁa.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
traqueriez /tʁa.kə.ʁje/ |
traqueraient /tʁa.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 | traque /tʁak/ |
traques /tʁak/ |
traque /tʁak/ |
traquions /tʁa.kjɔ̃/ |
traquiez /tʁa.kje/ |
traquent /tʁak/ |
| imperfect2 | traquasse /tʁa.kas/ |
traquasses /tʁa.kas/ |
traquât /tʁa.ka/ |
traquassions /tʁa.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
traquassiez /tʁa.ka.sje/ |
traquassent /tʁa.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | traque /tʁak/ |
— | traquons /tʁa.kɔ̃/ |
traquez /tʁa.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 only usable with the preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further readingEdit
- “traquer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).