gnoquer

French

Etymology

From the French translation of grok used in Stranger in a Strange Land.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɲɔ.ke/

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Verb

gnoquer

1. (transitive) to grok
   • 1970, Frank Straschitz, En Terre étrangère, 1999 ed., →ISBN, p. 70 (translated from English: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein)

     Smith s’était arrêté au bord du tapis de gazon et regardait ce qui l’entourait. C’était trop nouveau pour pouvoir être gnoqué immédiatement, mais cela lui plut.

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Conjugation

Conjugation of gnoquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	gnoquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	gnoquant /ɲɔ.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		gnoqué /ɲɔ.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	gnoque /ɲɔk/	gnoques /ɲɔk/	gnoque /ɲɔk/	gnoquons /ɲɔ.kɔ̃/	gnoquez /ɲɔ.ke/	gnoquent /ɲɔk/
	imperfect	gnoquais /ɲɔ.kɛ/	gnoquais /ɲɔ.kɛ/	gnoquait /ɲɔ.kɛ/	gnoquions /ɲɔ.kjɔ̃/	gnoquiez /ɲɔ.kje/	gnoquaient /ɲɔ.kɛ/
	past historic2	gnoquai /ɲɔ.ke/	gnoquas /ɲɔ.ka/	gnoqua /ɲɔ.ka/	gnoquâmes /ɲɔ.kam/	gnoquâtes /ɲɔ.kat/	gnoquèrent /ɲɔ.kɛʁ/
	future	gnoquerai /ɲɔ.kʁe/	gnoqueras /ɲɔ.kʁa/	gnoquera /ɲɔ.kʁa/	gnoquerons /ɲɔ.kʁɔ̃/	gnoquerez /ɲɔ.kʁe/	gnoqueront /ɲɔ.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	gnoquerais /ɲɔ.kʁɛ/	gnoquerais /ɲɔ.kʁɛ/	gnoquerait /ɲɔ.kʁɛ/	gnoquerions /ɲɔ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	gnoqueriez /ɲɔ.kə.ʁje/	gnoqueraient /ɲɔ.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	gnoque /ɲɔk/	gnoques /ɲɔk/	gnoque /ɲɔk/	gnoquions /ɲɔ.kjɔ̃/	gnoquiez /ɲɔ.kje/	gnoquent /ɲɔk/
	imperfect2	gnoquasse /ɲɔ.kas/	gnoquasses /ɲɔ.kas/	gnoquât /ɲɔ.ka/	gnoquassions /ɲɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/	gnoquassiez /ɲɔ.ka.sje/	gnoquassent /ɲɔ.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	gnoque /ɲɔk/	—	gnoquons /ɲɔ.kɔ̃/	gnoquez /ɲɔ.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).