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Definition 2024
enquêter
enquêter
French
Verb
enquêter
- to investigate
- to survey
Conjugation
Conjugation of enquêter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | enquêter | avoir enquêté | |||||
| gerund | en enquêtant | en ayant enquêté | |||||
| present participle | enquêtant /ɑ̃.kɛ.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | enquêté /ɑ̃.kɛ.te/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | enquête /ɑ̃.kɛt/ |
enquêtes /ɑ̃.kɛt/ |
enquête /ɑ̃.kɛt/ |
enquêtons /ɑ̃.kɛ.tɔ̃/ |
enquêtez /ɑ̃.kɛ.te/ |
enquêtent /ɑ̃.kɛt/ |
| imperfect | enquêtais /ɑ̃.kɛ.tɛ/ |
enquêtais /ɑ̃.kɛ.tɛ/ |
enquêtait /ɑ̃.kɛ.tɛ/ |
enquêtions /ɑ̃.kɛ.tjɔ̃/ |
enquêtiez /ɑ̃.kɛ.tje/ |
enquêtaient /ɑ̃.kɛ.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | enquêtai /ɑ̃.kɛ.te/ |
enquêtas /ɑ̃.kɛ.ta/ |
enquêta /ɑ̃.kɛ.ta/ |
enquêtâmes /ɑ̃.kɛ.tam/ |
enquêtâtes /ɑ̃.kɛ.tat/ |
enquêtèrent /ɑ̃.kɛ.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | enquêterai /ɑ̃.kɛ.tʁe/ |
enquêteras /ɑ̃.kɛ.tʁa/ |
enquêtera /ɑ̃.kɛ.tʁa/ |
enquêterons /ɑ̃.kɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
enquêterez /ɑ̃.kɛ.tʁe/ |
enquêteront /ɑ̃.kɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | enquêterais /ɑ̃.kɛ.tʁɛ/ |
enquêterais /ɑ̃.kɛ.tʁɛ/ |
enquêterait /ɑ̃.kɛ.tʁɛ/ |
enquêterions /ɑ̃.kɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
enquêteriez /ɑ̃.kɛ.tə.ʁje/ |
enquêteraient /ɑ̃.kɛ.tʁɛ/ |
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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 | enquête /ɑ̃.kɛt/ |
enquêtes /ɑ̃.kɛt/ |
enquête /ɑ̃.kɛt/ |
enquêtions /ɑ̃.kɛ.tjɔ̃/ |
enquêtiez /ɑ̃.kɛ.tje/ |
enquêtent /ɑ̃.kɛt/ |
| imperfect1 |
enquêtasse /ɑ̃.kɛ.tas/ |
enquêtasses /ɑ̃.kɛ.tas/ |
enquêtât /ɑ̃.kɛ.ta/ |
enquêtassions /ɑ̃.kɛ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
enquêtassiez /ɑ̃.kɛ.ta.sje/ |
enquêtassent /ɑ̃.kɛ.tas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | enquête /ɑ̃.kɛt/ |
— | enquêtons /ɑ̃.kɛ.tɔ̃/ |
enquêtez /ɑ̃.kɛ.te/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||