paniquer

French

Verb

paniquer

1. (transitive, intransitive) To panic

Conjugation

Conjugation of paniquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	paniquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	paniquant /pa.ni.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		paniqué /pa.ni.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	panique /pa.nik/	paniques /pa.nik/	panique /pa.nik/	paniquons /pa.ni.kɔ̃/	paniquez /pa.ni.ke/	paniquent /pa.nik/
	imperfect	paniquais /pa.ni.kɛ/	paniquais /pa.ni.kɛ/	paniquait /pa.ni.kɛ/	paniquions /pa.ni.kjɔ̃/	paniquiez /pa.ni.kje/	paniquaient /pa.ni.kɛ/
	past historic2	paniquai /pa.ni.ke/	paniquas /pa.ni.ka/	paniqua /pa.ni.ka/	paniquâmes /pa.ni.kam/	paniquâtes /pa.ni.kat/	paniquèrent /pa.ni.kɛʁ/
	future	paniquerai /pa.ni.kʁe/	paniqueras /pa.ni.kʁa/	paniquera /pa.ni.kʁa/	paniquerons /pa.ni.kʁɔ̃/	paniquerez /pa.ni.kʁe/	paniqueront /pa.ni.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	paniquerais /pa.ni.kʁɛ/	paniquerais /pa.ni.kʁɛ/	paniquerait /pa.ni.kʁɛ/	paniquerions /pa.ni.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	paniqueriez /pa.ni.kə.ʁje/	paniqueraient /pa.ni.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	panique /pa.nik/	paniques /pa.nik/	panique /pa.nik/	paniquions /pa.ni.kjɔ̃/	paniquiez /pa.ni.kje/	paniquent /pa.nik/
	imperfect2	paniquasse /pa.ni.kas/	paniquasses /pa.ni.kas/	paniquât /pa.ni.ka/	paniquassions /pa.ni.ka.sjɔ̃/	paniquassiez /pa.ni.ka.sje/	paniquassent /pa.ni.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	panique /pa.nik/	—	paniquons /pa.ni.kɔ̃/	paniquez /pa.ni.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).

Further reading

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