liquider

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.ki.de/

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Verb

liquider

1. to liquidate, pay off, settle (a debt)
2. to sell off (goods)
3. to liquidate, bump off (kill)

Conjugation

Conjugation of liquider (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	liquider
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	liquidant /li.ki.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		liquidé /li.ki.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	liquide /li.kid/	liquides /li.kid/	liquide /li.kid/	liquidons /li.ki.dɔ̃/	liquidez /li.ki.de/	liquident /li.kid/
	imperfect	liquidais /li.ki.dɛ/	liquidais /li.ki.dɛ/	liquidait /li.ki.dɛ/	liquidions /li.ki.djɔ̃/	liquidiez /li.ki.dje/	liquidaient /li.ki.dɛ/
	past historic2	liquidai /li.ki.de/	liquidas /li.ki.da/	liquida /li.ki.da/	liquidâmes /li.ki.dam/	liquidâtes /li.ki.dat/	liquidèrent /li.ki.dɛʁ/
	future	liquiderai /li.ki.dʁe/	liquideras /li.ki.dʁa/	liquidera /li.ki.dʁa/	liquiderons /li.ki.dʁɔ̃/	liquiderez /li.ki.dʁe/	liquideront /li.ki.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	liquiderais /li.ki.dʁɛ/	liquiderais /li.ki.dʁɛ/	liquiderait /li.ki.dʁɛ/	liquiderions /li.ki.də.ʁjɔ̃/	liquideriez /li.ki.də.ʁje/	liquideraient /li.ki.dʁɛ/
(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	liquide /li.kid/	liquides /li.kid/	liquide /li.kid/	liquidions /li.ki.djɔ̃/	liquidiez /li.ki.dje/	liquident /li.kid/
	imperfect2	liquidasse /li.ki.das/	liquidasses /li.ki.das/	liquidât /li.ki.da/	liquidassions /li.ki.da.sjɔ̃/	liquidassiez /li.ki.da.sje/	liquidassent /li.ki.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	liquide /li.kid/	—	liquidons /li.ki.dɔ̃/	liquidez /li.ki.de/	—
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).

Further reading

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