risquer
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
risquer
- (transitive) to risk, to put at risk
- J’ai risqué ma vie pour toi.
- I risked my life for you.
- (transitive) to face, to incur
- Ils risquent une peine de prison.
- They are risking a prison sentence.
- Synonym: encourir
- (followed by the preposition de) to run the risk of; to be likely to
- Si tu fais ça, tu risques de le regretter plus tard.
- If you do that, you risk regretting it later.
Conjugation
Conjugation of risquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | risquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | risquant /ʁis.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | risqué /ʁis.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | risque /ʁisk/ |
risques /ʁisk/ |
risque /ʁisk/ |
risquons /ʁis.kɔ̃/ |
risquez /ʁis.ke/ |
risquent /ʁisk/ |
| imperfect | risquais /ʁis.kɛ/ |
risquais /ʁis.kɛ/ |
risquait /ʁis.kɛ/ |
risquions /ʁis.kjɔ̃/ |
risquiez /ʁis.kje/ |
risquaient /ʁis.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | risquai /ʁis.ke/ |
risquas /ʁis.ka/ |
risqua /ʁis.ka/ |
risquâmes /ʁis.kam/ |
risquâtes /ʁis.kat/ |
risquèrent /ʁis.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | risquerai /ʁis.kə.ʁe/ |
risqueras /ʁis.kə.ʁa/ |
risquera /ʁis.kə.ʁa/ |
risquerons /ʁis.kə.ʁɔ̃/ |
risquerez /ʁis.kə.ʁe/ |
risqueront /ʁis.kə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | risquerais /ʁis.kə.ʁɛ/ |
risquerais /ʁis.kə.ʁɛ/ |
risquerait /ʁis.kə.ʁɛ/ |
risquerions /ʁis.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
risqueriez /ʁis.kə.ʁje/ |
risqueraient /ʁis.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 | risque /ʁisk/ |
risques /ʁisk/ |
risque /ʁisk/ |
risquions /ʁis.kjɔ̃/ |
risquiez /ʁis.kje/ |
risquent /ʁisk/ |
| imperfect2 | risquasse /ʁis.kas/ |
risquasses /ʁis.kas/ |
risquât /ʁis.ka/ |
risquassions /ʁis.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
risquassiez /ʁis.ka.sje/ |
risquassent /ʁis.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | risque /ʁisk/ |
— | risquons /ʁis.kɔ̃/ |
risquez /ʁis.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “risquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.