escroquer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian scroccare, from Italian crocco, of Germanic origin. By surface analysis, escroc +‎ -er. Cognate with English crook.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.kʁɔ.ke/

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Verb

escroquer

1. to swindle

Conjugation

Conjugation of escroquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	escroquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	escroquant /ɛs.kʁɔ.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		escroqué /ɛs.kʁɔ.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	escroque /ɛs.kʁɔk/	escroques /ɛs.kʁɔk/	escroque /ɛs.kʁɔk/	escroquons /ɛs.kʁɔ.kɔ̃/	escroquez /ɛs.kʁɔ.ke/	escroquent /ɛs.kʁɔk/
	imperfect	escroquais /ɛs.kʁɔ.kɛ/	escroquais /ɛs.kʁɔ.kɛ/	escroquait /ɛs.kʁɔ.kɛ/	escroquions /ɛs.kʁɔ.kjɔ̃/	escroquiez /ɛs.kʁɔ.kje/	escroquaient /ɛs.kʁɔ.kɛ/
	past historic2	escroquai /ɛs.kʁɔ.ke/	escroquas /ɛs.kʁɔ.ka/	escroqua /ɛs.kʁɔ.ka/	escroquâmes /ɛs.kʁɔ.kam/	escroquâtes /ɛs.kʁɔ.kat/	escroquèrent /ɛs.kʁɔ.kɛʁ/
	future	escroquerai /ɛs.kʁɔ.kʁe/	escroqueras /ɛs.kʁɔ.kʁa/	escroquera /ɛs.kʁɔ.kʁa/	escroquerons /ɛs.kʁɔ.kʁɔ̃/	escroquerez /ɛs.kʁɔ.kʁe/	escroqueront /ɛs.kʁɔ.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	escroquerais /ɛs.kʁɔ.kʁɛ/	escroquerais /ɛs.kʁɔ.kʁɛ/	escroquerait /ɛs.kʁɔ.kʁɛ/	escroquerions /ɛs.kʁɔ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	escroqueriez /ɛs.kʁɔ.kə.ʁje/	escroqueraient /ɛs.kʁɔ.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	escroque /ɛs.kʁɔk/	escroques /ɛs.kʁɔk/	escroque /ɛs.kʁɔk/	escroquions /ɛs.kʁɔ.kjɔ̃/	escroquiez /ɛs.kʁɔ.kje/	escroquent /ɛs.kʁɔk/
	imperfect2	escroquasse /ɛs.kʁɔ.kas/	escroquasses /ɛs.kʁɔ.kas/	escroquât /ɛs.kʁɔ.ka/	escroquassions /ɛs.kʁɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/	escroquassiez /ɛs.kʁɔ.ka.sje/	escroquassent /ɛs.kʁɔ.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	escroque /ɛs.kʁɔk/	—	escroquons /ɛs.kʁɔ.kɔ̃/	escroquez /ɛs.kʁɔ.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

• escroc
• escroquerie

Further reading

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