invoquer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin invocāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.vɔ.ke/

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Verb

invoquer

1. to invoke
2. to call upon (God)

Conjugation

Conjugation of invoquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	invoquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	invoquant /ɛ̃.vɔ.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		invoqué /ɛ̃.vɔ.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	invoque /ɛ̃.vɔk/	invoques /ɛ̃.vɔk/	invoque /ɛ̃.vɔk/	invoquons /ɛ̃.vɔ.kɔ̃/	invoquez /ɛ̃.vɔ.ke/	invoquent /ɛ̃.vɔk/
	imperfect	invoquais /ɛ̃.vɔ.kɛ/	invoquais /ɛ̃.vɔ.kɛ/	invoquait /ɛ̃.vɔ.kɛ/	invoquions /ɛ̃.vɔ.kjɔ̃/	invoquiez /ɛ̃.vɔ.kje/	invoquaient /ɛ̃.vɔ.kɛ/
	past historic2	invoquai /ɛ̃.vɔ.ke/	invoquas /ɛ̃.vɔ.ka/	invoqua /ɛ̃.vɔ.ka/	invoquâmes /ɛ̃.vɔ.kam/	invoquâtes /ɛ̃.vɔ.kat/	invoquèrent /ɛ̃.vɔ.kɛʁ/
	future	invoquerai /ɛ̃.vɔ.kʁe/	invoqueras /ɛ̃.vɔ.kʁa/	invoquera /ɛ̃.vɔ.kʁa/	invoquerons /ɛ̃.vɔ.kʁɔ̃/	invoquerez /ɛ̃.vɔ.kʁe/	invoqueront /ɛ̃.vɔ.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	invoquerais /ɛ̃.vɔ.kʁɛ/	invoquerais /ɛ̃.vɔ.kʁɛ/	invoquerait /ɛ̃.vɔ.kʁɛ/	invoquerions /ɛ̃.vɔ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	invoqueriez /ɛ̃.vɔ.kə.ʁje/	invoqueraient /ɛ̃.vɔ.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	invoque /ɛ̃.vɔk/	invoques /ɛ̃.vɔk/	invoque /ɛ̃.vɔk/	invoquions /ɛ̃.vɔ.kjɔ̃/	invoquiez /ɛ̃.vɔ.kje/	invoquent /ɛ̃.vɔk/
	imperfect2	invoquasse /ɛ̃.vɔ.kas/	invoquasses /ɛ̃.vɔ.kas/	invoquât /ɛ̃.vɔ.ka/	invoquassions /ɛ̃.vɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/	invoquassiez /ɛ̃.vɔ.ka.sje/	invoquassent /ɛ̃.vɔ.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	invoque /ɛ̃.vɔk/	—	invoquons /ɛ̃.vɔ.kɔ̃/	invoquez /ɛ̃.vɔ.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).

Derived terms

• invocable
  • ininvocabilité
  • ininvocable
  • invocabilité
• invocateur, invocatrice
• invocation
• invoqué
• réinvoquer

Related terms

• convoquer
• évoquer
• provoquer
• révoquer

Further reading

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