caricaturer

French

Etymology

From caricature +‎ -er, originally from Italian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁe/

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Verb

caricaturer

1. to caricature

Conjugation

Conjugation of caricaturer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	caricaturer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	caricaturant /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		caricaturé /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	caricature /ka.ʁi.ka.tyʁ/	caricatures /ka.ʁi.ka.tyʁ/	caricature /ka.ʁi.ka.tyʁ/	caricaturons /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁɔ̃/	caricaturez /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁe/	caricaturent /ka.ʁi.ka.tyʁ/
	imperfect	caricaturais /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁɛ/	caricaturais /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁɛ/	caricaturait /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁɛ/	caricaturions /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	caricaturiez /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁje/	caricaturaient /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	caricaturai /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁe/	caricaturas /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁa/	caricatura /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁa/	caricaturâmes /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁam/	caricaturâtes /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁat/	caricaturèrent /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁɛʁ/
	future	caricaturerai /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁə.ʁe/	caricatureras /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁə.ʁa/	caricaturera /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁə.ʁa/	caricaturerons /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	caricaturerez /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁə.ʁe/	caricatureront /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	caricaturerais /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	caricaturerais /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	caricaturerait /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	caricaturerions /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	caricatureriez /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁə.ʁje/	caricatureraient /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/
(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	caricature /ka.ʁi.ka.tyʁ/	caricatures /ka.ʁi.ka.tyʁ/	caricature /ka.ʁi.ka.tyʁ/	caricaturions /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	caricaturiez /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁje/	caricaturent /ka.ʁi.ka.tyʁ/
	imperfect2	caricaturasse /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁas/	caricaturasses /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁas/	caricaturât /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁa/	caricaturassions /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	caricaturassiez /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁa.sje/	caricaturassent /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	caricature /ka.ʁi.ka.tyʁ/	—	caricaturons /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁɔ̃/	caricaturez /ka.ʁi.ka.ty.ʁe/	—
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).

Further reading

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