larguer
French
Pronunciation
Etymology
Verb
larguer
- (nautical, transitive) to unfurl
- (nautical, transitive) to ease (a line)
- (transitive) to drop (a bomb, parachute)
- (transitive, colloquial) to ditch, dump (break up with)
Conjugation
Conjugation of larguer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | larguer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | larguant /laʁ.ɡɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | largué /laʁ.ɡe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | largue /laʁɡ/ |
largues /laʁɡ/ |
largue /laʁɡ/ |
larguons /laʁ.ɡɔ̃/ |
larguez /laʁ.ɡe/ |
larguent /laʁɡ/ |
| imperfect | larguais /laʁ.ɡɛ/ |
larguais /laʁ.ɡɛ/ |
larguait /laʁ.ɡɛ/ |
larguions /laʁ.ɡjɔ̃/ |
larguiez /laʁ.ɡje/ |
larguaient /laʁ.ɡɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | larguai /laʁ.ɡe/ |
larguas /laʁ.ɡa/ |
largua /laʁ.ɡa/ |
larguâmes /laʁ.ɡam/ |
larguâtes /laʁ.ɡat/ |
larguèrent /laʁ.ɡɛʁ/ | |
| future | larguerai /laʁ.ɡə.ʁe/ |
largueras /laʁ.ɡə.ʁa/ |
larguera /laʁ.ɡə.ʁa/ |
larguerons /laʁ.ɡə.ʁɔ̃/ |
larguerez /laʁ.ɡə.ʁe/ |
largueront /laʁ.ɡə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | larguerais /laʁ.ɡə.ʁɛ/ |
larguerais /laʁ.ɡə.ʁɛ/ |
larguerait /laʁ.ɡə.ʁɛ/ |
larguerions /laʁ.ɡə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
largueriez /laʁ.ɡə.ʁje/ |
largueraient /laʁ.ɡə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | largue /laʁɡ/ |
largues /laʁɡ/ |
largue /laʁɡ/ |
larguions /laʁ.ɡjɔ̃/ |
larguiez /laʁ.ɡje/ |
larguent /laʁɡ/ |
| imperfect2 | larguasse /laʁ.ɡas/ |
larguasses /laʁ.ɡas/ |
larguât /laʁ.ɡa/ |
larguassions /laʁ.ɡa.sjɔ̃/ |
larguassiez /laʁ.ɡa.sje/ |
larguassent /laʁ.ɡas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | largue /laʁɡ/ |
— | larguons /laʁ.ɡɔ̃/ |
larguez /laʁ.ɡe/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “larguer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.