trinquer

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French trinquer (ca. 1400), from Middle High German trinken, from Old High German trinkan, from Proto-West Germanic *drinkan, from Proto-Germanic *drinkaną. Cognate with English drink.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɛ̃.ke/

• Audio (Paris)

  (file)

Verb

trinquer

1. to clink glasses, toast
2. to booze, drink alcohol

Conjugation

Conjugation of trinquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	trinquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	trinquant /tʁɛ̃.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		trinqué /tʁɛ̃.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	trinque /tʁɛ̃k/	trinques /tʁɛ̃k/	trinque /tʁɛ̃k/	trinquons /tʁɛ̃.kɔ̃/	trinquez /tʁɛ̃.ke/	trinquent /tʁɛ̃k/
	imperfect	trinquais /tʁɛ̃.kɛ/	trinquais /tʁɛ̃.kɛ/	trinquait /tʁɛ̃.kɛ/	trinquions /tʁɛ̃.kjɔ̃/	trinquiez /tʁɛ̃.kje/	trinquaient /tʁɛ̃.kɛ/
	past historic2	trinquai /tʁɛ̃.ke/	trinquas /tʁɛ̃.ka/	trinqua /tʁɛ̃.ka/	trinquâmes /tʁɛ̃.kam/	trinquâtes /tʁɛ̃.kat/	trinquèrent /tʁɛ̃.kɛʁ/
	future	trinquerai /tʁɛ̃.kʁe/	trinqueras /tʁɛ̃.kʁa/	trinquera /tʁɛ̃.kʁa/	trinquerons /tʁɛ̃.kʁɔ̃/	trinquerez /tʁɛ̃.kʁe/	trinqueront /tʁɛ̃.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	trinquerais /tʁɛ̃.kʁɛ/	trinquerais /tʁɛ̃.kʁɛ/	trinquerait /tʁɛ̃.kʁɛ/	trinquerions /tʁɛ̃.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	trinqueriez /tʁɛ̃.kə.ʁje/	trinqueraient /tʁɛ̃.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	trinque /tʁɛ̃k/	trinques /tʁɛ̃k/	trinque /tʁɛ̃k/	trinquions /tʁɛ̃.kjɔ̃/	trinquiez /tʁɛ̃.kje/	trinquent /tʁɛ̃k/
	imperfect2	trinquasse /tʁɛ̃.kas/	trinquasses /tʁɛ̃.kas/	trinquât /tʁɛ̃.ka/	trinquassions /tʁɛ̃.ka.sjɔ̃/	trinquassiez /tʁɛ̃.ka.sje/	trinquassent /tʁɛ̃.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	trinque /tʁɛ̃k/	—	trinquons /tʁɛ̃.kɔ̃/	trinquez /tʁɛ̃.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).

Further reading

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