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abdiquer
abdiquer
French
Verb
abdiquer
- (transitive, intransitive) To abdicate (one's powers).
- (intransitive, formal) To give up; to abandon.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of abdiquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | abdiquer | avoir abdiqué | |||||
| gerund | en abdiquant | en ayant abdiqué | |||||
| present participle | abdiquant /ab.di.kɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | abdiqué /ab.di.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 | abdique /ab.dik/ |
abdiques /ab.dik/ |
abdique /ab.dik/ |
abdiquons /ab.di.kɔ̃/ |
abdiquez /ab.di.ke/ |
abdiquent /ab.dik/ |
| imperfect | abdiquais /ab.di.kɛ/ |
abdiquais /ab.di.kɛ/ |
abdiquait /ab.di.kɛ/ |
abdiquions /ab.di.kjɔ̃/ |
abdiquiez /ab.di.kje/ |
abdiquaient /ab.di.kɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | abdiquai /ab.di.ke/ |
abdiquas /ab.di.ka/ |
abdiqua /ab.di.ka/ |
abdiquâmes /ab.di.kam/ |
abdiquâtes /ab.di.kat/ |
abdiquèrent /ab.di.kɛʁ/ |
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| future | abdiquerai /ab.di.kʁe/ |
abdiqueras /ab.di.kʁa/ |
abdiquera /ab.di.kʁa/ |
abdiquerons /ab.di.kʁɔ̃/ |
abdiquerez /ab.di.kʁe/ |
abdiqueront /ab.di.kʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | abdiquerais /ab.di.kʁɛ/ |
abdiquerais /ab.di.kʁɛ/ |
abdiquerait /ab.di.kʁɛ/ |
abdiquerions /ab.di.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
abdiqueriez /ab.di.kə.ʁje/ |
abdiqueraient /ab.di.kʁɛ/ |
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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 | abdique /ab.dik/ |
abdiques /ab.dik/ |
abdique /ab.dik/ |
abdiquions /ab.di.kjɔ̃/ |
abdiquiez /ab.di.kje/ |
abdiquent /ab.dik/ |
| imperfect1 |
abdiquasse /ab.di.kas/ |
abdiquasses /ab.di.kas/ |
abdiquât /ab.di.ka/ |
abdiquassions /ab.di.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
abdiquassiez /ab.di.ka.sje/ |
abdiquassent /ab.di.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 | – | |
| — | abdique /ab.dik/ |
— | abdiquons /ab.di.kɔ̃/ |
abdiquez /ab.di.ke/ |
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