cliquer

French

Etymology

Of imitative origin. Compare Germanic cognates such as German klecken, klicken (“to click”), Danish klikke (“to click”), Swedish klicka (“to click”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kli.ke/

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Verb

cliquer

1. (computing, intransitive) to click

   Tu dois cliquer sur le bouton rouge. ― You must click [on] the red button.

Conjugation

Conjugation of cliquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cliquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cliquant /kli.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cliqué /kli.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	clique /klik/	cliques /klik/	clique /klik/	cliquons /kli.kɔ̃/	cliquez /kli.ke/	cliquent /klik/
	imperfect	cliquais /kli.kɛ/	cliquais /kli.kɛ/	cliquait /kli.kɛ/	cliquions /kli.kjɔ̃/	cliquiez /kli.kje/	cliquaient /kli.kɛ/
	past historic2	cliquai /kli.ke/	cliquas /kli.ka/	cliqua /kli.ka/	cliquâmes /kli.kam/	cliquâtes /kli.kat/	cliquèrent /kli.kɛʁ/
	future	cliquerai /kli.kʁe/	cliqueras /kli.kʁa/	cliquera /kli.kʁa/	cliquerons /kli.kʁɔ̃/	cliquerez /kli.kʁe/	cliqueront /kli.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cliquerais /kli.kʁɛ/	cliquerais /kli.kʁɛ/	cliquerait /kli.kʁɛ/	cliquerions /kli.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	cliqueriez /kli.kə.ʁje/	cliqueraient /kli.kʁɛ/
(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	clique /klik/	cliques /klik/	clique /klik/	cliquions /kli.kjɔ̃/	cliquiez /kli.kje/	cliquent /klik/
	imperfect2	cliquasse /kli.kas/	cliquasses /kli.kas/	cliquât /kli.ka/	cliquassions /kli.ka.sjɔ̃/	cliquassiez /kli.ka.sje/	cliquassent /kli.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	clique /klik/	—	cliquons /kli.kɔ̃/	cliquez /kli.ke/	—
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

• clic

Further reading

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