invoquer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin invoco, invocare.
Pronunciation
Verb
invoquer
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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “invoquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.