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rétorquer
rétorquer
French
Verb
rétorquer
- to retort
Conjugation
Conjugation of rétorquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | rétorquer | avoir rétorqué | |||||
| gerund | en rétorquant | en ayant rétorqué | |||||
| present participle | rétorquant /ʁe.tɔʁ.kɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | rétorqué /ʁe.tɔʁ.ke/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | rétorque /ʁe.tɔʁk/ |
rétorques /ʁe.tɔʁk/ |
rétorque /ʁe.tɔʁk/ |
rétorquons /ʁe.tɔʁ.kɔ̃/ |
rétorquez /ʁe.tɔʁ.ke/ |
rétorquent /ʁe.tɔʁk/ |
| imperfect | rétorquais /ʁe.tɔʁ.kɛ/ |
rétorquais /ʁe.tɔʁ.kɛ/ |
rétorquait /ʁe.tɔʁ.kɛ/ |
rétorquions /ʁe.tɔʁ.kjɔ̃/ |
rétorquiez /ʁe.tɔʁ.kje/ |
rétorquaient /ʁe.tɔʁ.kɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | rétorquai /ʁe.tɔʁ.ke/ |
rétorquas /ʁe.tɔʁ.ka/ |
rétorqua /ʁe.tɔʁ.ka/ |
rétorquâmes /ʁe.tɔʁ.kam/ |
rétorquâtes /ʁe.tɔʁ.kat/ |
rétorquèrent /ʁe.tɔʁ.kɛʁ/ |
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| future | rétorquerai /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁe/ |
rétorqueras /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁa/ |
rétorquera /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁa/ |
rétorquerons /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁɔ̃/ |
rétorquerez /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁe/ |
rétorqueront /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | rétorquerais /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁɛ/ |
rétorquerais /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁɛ/ |
rétorquerait /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁɛ/ |
rétorquerions /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rétorqueriez /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.ʁje/ |
rétorqueraient /ʁe.tɔʁ.kə.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 | rétorque /ʁe.tɔʁk/ |
rétorques /ʁe.tɔʁk/ |
rétorque /ʁe.tɔʁk/ |
rétorquions /ʁe.tɔʁ.kjɔ̃/ |
rétorquiez /ʁe.tɔʁ.kje/ |
rétorquent /ʁe.tɔʁk/ |
| imperfect1 |
rétorquasse /ʁe.tɔʁ.kas/ |
rétorquasses /ʁe.tɔʁ.kas/ |
rétorquât /ʁe.tɔʁ.ka/ |
rétorquassions /ʁe.tɔʁ.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
rétorquassiez /ʁe.tɔʁ.ka.sje/ |
rétorquassent /ʁe.tɔʁ.kas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | rétorque /ʁe.tɔʁk/ |
— | rétorquons /ʁe.tɔʁ.kɔ̃/ |
rétorquez /ʁe.tɔʁ.ke/ |
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