enquêter

French

Etymology

From enquête +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.kɛ.te/, /ɑ̃.ke.te/

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Verb

enquêter

1. to investigate
2. to survey

Conjugation

Conjugation of enquêter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	enquêter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	enquêtant /ɑ̃.kɛ.tɑ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		enquêté /ɑ̃.kɛ.te/ or /ɑ̃.ke.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	enquête /ɑ̃.kɛt/	enquêtes /ɑ̃.kɛt/	enquête /ɑ̃.kɛt/	enquêtons /ɑ̃.kɛ.tɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tɔ̃/	enquêtez /ɑ̃.kɛ.te/ or /ɑ̃.ke.te/	enquêtent /ɑ̃.kɛt/
	imperfect	enquêtais /ɑ̃.kɛ.tɛ/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tɛ/	enquêtais /ɑ̃.kɛ.tɛ/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tɛ/	enquêtait /ɑ̃.kɛ.tɛ/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tɛ/	enquêtions /ɑ̃.kɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tjɔ̃/	enquêtiez /ɑ̃.kɛ.tje/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tje/	enquêtaient /ɑ̃.kɛ.tɛ/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tɛ/
	past historic2	enquêtai /ɑ̃.kɛ.te/ or /ɑ̃.ke.te/	enquêtas /ɑ̃.kɛ.ta/ or /ɑ̃.ke.ta/	enquêta /ɑ̃.kɛ.ta/ or /ɑ̃.ke.ta/	enquêtâmes /ɑ̃.kɛ.tam/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tam/	enquêtâtes /ɑ̃.kɛ.tat/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tat/	enquêtèrent /ɑ̃.kɛ.tɛʁ/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tɛʁ/
	future	enquêterai /ɑ̃.kɛ.tʁe/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tʁe/	enquêteras /ɑ̃.kɛ.tʁa/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tʁa/	enquêtera /ɑ̃.kɛ.tʁa/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tʁa/	enquêterons /ɑ̃.kɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tʁɔ̃/	enquêterez /ɑ̃.kɛ.tʁe/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tʁe/	enquêteront /ɑ̃.kɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	enquêterais /ɑ̃.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tʁɛ/	enquêterais /ɑ̃.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tʁɛ/	enquêterait /ɑ̃.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tʁɛ/	enquêterions /ɑ̃.kɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	enquêteriez /ɑ̃.kɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tə.ʁje/	enquêteraient /ɑ̃.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tʁɛ/
(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	enquête /ɑ̃.kɛt/	enquêtes /ɑ̃.kɛt/	enquête /ɑ̃.kɛt/	enquêtions /ɑ̃.kɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tjɔ̃/	enquêtiez /ɑ̃.kɛ.tje/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tje/	enquêtent /ɑ̃.kɛt/
	imperfect2	enquêtasse /ɑ̃.kɛ.tas/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tas/	enquêtasses /ɑ̃.kɛ.tas/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tas/	enquêtât /ɑ̃.kɛ.ta/ or /ɑ̃.ke.ta/	enquêtassions /ɑ̃.kɛ.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ke.ta.sjɔ̃/	enquêtassiez /ɑ̃.kɛ.ta.sje/ or /ɑ̃.ke.ta.sje/	enquêtassent /ɑ̃.kɛ.tas/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	enquête /ɑ̃.kɛt/	—	enquêtons /ɑ̃.kɛ.tɔ̃/ or /ɑ̃.ke.tɔ̃/	enquêtez /ɑ̃.kɛ.te/ or /ɑ̃.ke.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• enquête
• enquêteur

Further reading

• “enquêter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.