esquisser

French

Etymology

From Italian schizzare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.ki.se/

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Verb

esquisser

1. to sketch
2. to draft, outline

Conjugation

Conjugation of esquisser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	esquisser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	esquissant /ɛs.ki.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		esquissé /ɛs.ki.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	esquisse /ɛs.kis/	esquisses /ɛs.kis/	esquisse /ɛs.kis/	esquissons /ɛs.ki.sɔ̃/	esquissez /ɛs.ki.se/	esquissent /ɛs.kis/
	imperfect	esquissais /ɛs.ki.sɛ/	esquissais /ɛs.ki.sɛ/	esquissait /ɛs.ki.sɛ/	esquissions /ɛs.ki.sjɔ̃/	esquissiez /ɛs.ki.sje/	esquissaient /ɛs.ki.sɛ/
	past historic2	esquissai /ɛs.ki.se/	esquissas /ɛs.ki.sa/	esquissa /ɛs.ki.sa/	esquissâmes /ɛs.ki.sam/	esquissâtes /ɛs.ki.sat/	esquissèrent /ɛs.ki.sɛʁ/
	future	esquisserai /ɛs.ki.sʁe/	esquisseras /ɛs.ki.sʁa/	esquissera /ɛs.ki.sʁa/	esquisserons /ɛs.ki.sʁɔ̃/	esquisserez /ɛs.ki.sʁe/	esquisseront /ɛs.ki.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	esquisserais /ɛs.ki.sʁɛ/	esquisserais /ɛs.ki.sʁɛ/	esquisserait /ɛs.ki.sʁɛ/	esquisserions /ɛs.ki.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	esquisseriez /ɛs.ki.sə.ʁje/	esquisseraient /ɛs.ki.sʁɛ/
(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	esquisse /ɛs.kis/	esquisses /ɛs.kis/	esquisse /ɛs.kis/	esquissions /ɛs.ki.sjɔ̃/	esquissiez /ɛs.ki.sje/	esquissent /ɛs.kis/
	imperfect2	esquissasse /ɛs.ki.sas/	esquissasses /ɛs.ki.sas/	esquissât /ɛs.ki.sa/	esquissassions /ɛs.ki.sa.sjɔ̃/	esquissassiez /ɛs.ki.sa.sje/	esquissassent /ɛs.ki.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	esquisse /ɛs.kis/	—	esquissons /ɛs.ki.sɔ̃/	esquissez /ɛs.ki.se/	—
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

• esquisse

Further reading

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

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