abdiquer

French

Etymology

From Latin abdicō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ab.di.ke/
• Homophones: abdiquai, abdiqué, abdiquée, abdiquées, abdiqués, abdiquez

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Verb

abdiquer

1. (transitive, intransitive) To abdicate (one's powers).

   Beatrix des Pays-Bas a abdiqué en 2013. ― Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicated in 2013.

2. (intransitive, formal) To give up; to abandon.

Conjugation

Conjugation of abdiquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	abdiquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	abdiquant /ab.di.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		abdiqué /ab.di.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	abdique /ab.dik/	abdiques /ab.dik/	abdique /ab.dik/	abdiquons /ab.di.kɔ̃/	abdiquez /ab.di.ke/	abdiquent /ab.dik/
	imperfect	abdiquais /ab.di.kɛ/	abdiquais /ab.di.kɛ/	abdiquait /ab.di.kɛ/	abdiquions /ab.di.kjɔ̃/	abdiquiez /ab.di.kje/	abdiquaient /ab.di.kɛ/
	past historic2	abdiquai /ab.di.ke/	abdiquas /ab.di.ka/	abdiqua /ab.di.ka/	abdiquâmes /ab.di.kam/	abdiquâtes /ab.di.kat/	abdiquèrent /ab.di.kɛʁ/
	future	abdiquerai /ab.di.kʁe/	abdiqueras /ab.di.kʁa/	abdiquera /ab.di.kʁa/	abdiquerons /ab.di.kʁɔ̃/	abdiquerez /ab.di.kʁe/	abdiqueront /ab.di.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	abdiquerais /ab.di.kʁɛ/	abdiquerais /ab.di.kʁɛ/	abdiquerait /ab.di.kʁɛ/	abdiquerions /ab.di.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	abdiqueriez /ab.di.kə.ʁje/	abdiqueraient /ab.di.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	abdique /ab.dik/	abdiques /ab.dik/	abdique /ab.dik/	abdiquions /ab.di.kjɔ̃/	abdiquiez /ab.di.kje/	abdiquent /ab.dik/
	imperfect2	abdiquasse /ab.di.kas/	abdiquasses /ab.di.kas/	abdiquât /ab.di.ka/	abdiquassions /ab.di.ka.sjɔ̃/	abdiquassiez /ab.di.ka.sje/	abdiquassent /ab.di.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	abdique /ab.dik/	—	abdiquons /ab.di.kɔ̃/	abdiquez /ab.di.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

• abdicataire
• abdication

 

Descendants

• → Romanian: abdica

Further reading

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