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quérir
quérir
See also: querir
French
Verb
quérir
- (literary or archaic) to seek; used especially after certain verbs
- Il a fait (ou envoyé) quérir son frère. ― He bade his brother come.
- Il est allé quérir le château. ― He went in quest of the castle.
Conjugation
- Many dictionaries give quérir as a defective verb, only appearing as an infinitive. However historically, it has a conjugation.
Conjugation of quérir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | quérir | avoir quis | |||||
| gerund | en quérant | en ayant quis | |||||
| present participle | quérant /ke.ʁɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | quis /ki/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | quiers /kjɛʁ/ |
quiers /kjɛʁ/ |
quiert /kjɛʁ/ |
quérons /ke.ʁɔ̃/ |
quérez /ke.ʁe/ |
quièrent /kjɛʁ/ |
| imperfect | quérais /ke.ʁɛ/ |
quérais /ke.ʁɛ/ |
quérait /ke.ʁɛ/ |
quérions /ke.ʁjɔ̃/ |
quériez /ke.ʁje/ |
quéraient /ke.ʁɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | quis /ki/ |
quis /ki/ |
quit /ki/ |
quîmes /kim/ |
quîtes /kit/ |
quirent /kiʁ/ |
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| future | querrai /kɛ.ʁe/ |
querras /kɛ.ʁa/ |
querra /kɛ.ʁa/ |
querrons /kɛ.ʁɔ̃/ |
querrez /kɛ.ʁe/ |
querront /kɛ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | querrais /kɛ.ʁɛ/ |
querrais /kɛ.ʁɛ/ |
querrait /kɛ.ʁɛ/ |
querrions /kɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ |
querriez /kɛ.ʁje/ |
querraient /kɛ.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | quière /kjɛʁ/ |
quières /kjɛʁ/ |
quière /kjɛʁ/ |
quérions /ke.ʁjɔ̃/ |
quériez /ke.ʁje/ |
quièrent /kjɛʁ/ |
| imperfect1 |
quisse /kis/ |
quisses /kis/ |
quît /ki/ |
quissions /ki.sjɔ̃/ |
quissiez /ki.sje/ |
quissent /kis/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | quiers /kjɛʁ/ |
— | quérons /ke.ʁɔ̃/ |
quérez /ke.ʁe/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||