confisquer

French

Etymology

From Latin cōnfiscāre (“declare property of the fisc”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fis.ke/

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Verb

confisquer

1. to confiscate

Conjugation

Conjugation of confisquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	confisquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	confisquant /kɔ̃.fis.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		confisqué /kɔ̃.fis.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	confisque /kɔ̃.fisk/	confisques /kɔ̃.fisk/	confisque /kɔ̃.fisk/	confisquons /kɔ̃.fis.kɔ̃/	confisquez /kɔ̃.fis.ke/	confisquent /kɔ̃.fisk/
	imperfect	confisquais /kɔ̃.fis.kɛ/	confisquais /kɔ̃.fis.kɛ/	confisquait /kɔ̃.fis.kɛ/	confisquions /kɔ̃.fis.kjɔ̃/	confisquiez /kɔ̃.fis.kje/	confisquaient /kɔ̃.fis.kɛ/
	past historic2	confisquai /kɔ̃.fis.ke/	confisquas /kɔ̃.fis.ka/	confisqua /kɔ̃.fis.ka/	confisquâmes /kɔ̃.fis.kam/	confisquâtes /kɔ̃.fis.kat/	confisquèrent /kɔ̃.fis.kɛʁ/
	future	confisquerai /kɔ̃.fis.kə.ʁe/	confisqueras /kɔ̃.fis.kə.ʁa/	confisquera /kɔ̃.fis.kə.ʁa/	confisquerons /kɔ̃.fis.kə.ʁɔ̃/	confisquerez /kɔ̃.fis.kə.ʁe/	confisqueront /kɔ̃.fis.kə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	confisquerais /kɔ̃.fis.kə.ʁɛ/	confisquerais /kɔ̃.fis.kə.ʁɛ/	confisquerait /kɔ̃.fis.kə.ʁɛ/	confisquerions /kɔ̃.fis.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	confisqueriez /kɔ̃.fis.kə.ʁje/	confisqueraient /kɔ̃.fis.kə.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	confisque /kɔ̃.fisk/	confisques /kɔ̃.fisk/	confisque /kɔ̃.fisk/	confisquions /kɔ̃.fis.kjɔ̃/	confisquiez /kɔ̃.fis.kje/	confisquent /kɔ̃.fisk/
	imperfect2	confisquasse /kɔ̃.fis.kas/	confisquasses /kɔ̃.fis.kas/	confisquât /kɔ̃.fis.ka/	confisquassions /kɔ̃.fis.ka.sjɔ̃/	confisquassiez /kɔ̃.fis.ka.sje/	confisquassent /kɔ̃.fis.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	confisque /kɔ̃.fisk/	—	confisquons /kɔ̃.fis.kɔ̃/	confisquez /kɔ̃.fis.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

• confiscation

Further reading

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