plaquer
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
plaquer
- to plate (to cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material)
- (rugby) To tackle
- (martial arts) To grapple
- (colloquial) To leave someone, to break up with someone; to ditch, to dump, to jilt someone
- Elle a plaqué son copain.
- She left her boyfriend.
Conjugation
Conjugation of plaquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | plaquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | plaquant /pla.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | plaqué /pla.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | plaque /plak/ |
plaques /plak/ |
plaque /plak/ |
plaquons /pla.kɔ̃/ |
plaquez /pla.ke/ |
plaquent /plak/ |
| imperfect | plaquais /pla.kɛ/ |
plaquais /pla.kɛ/ |
plaquait /pla.kɛ/ |
plaquions /pla.kjɔ̃/ |
plaquiez /pla.kje/ |
plaquaient /pla.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | plaquai /pla.ke/ |
plaquas /pla.ka/ |
plaqua /pla.ka/ |
plaquâmes /pla.kam/ |
plaquâtes /pla.kat/ |
plaquèrent /pla.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | plaquerai /pla.kʁe/ |
plaqueras /pla.kʁa/ |
plaquera /pla.kʁa/ |
plaquerons /pla.kʁɔ̃/ |
plaquerez /pla.kʁe/ |
plaqueront /pla.kʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | plaquerais /pla.kʁɛ/ |
plaquerais /pla.kʁɛ/ |
plaquerait /pla.kʁɛ/ |
plaquerions /pla.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
plaqueriez /pla.kə.ʁje/ |
plaqueraient /pla.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 | plaque /plak/ |
plaques /plak/ |
plaque /plak/ |
plaquions /pla.kjɔ̃/ |
plaquiez /pla.kje/ |
plaquent /plak/ |
| imperfect2 | plaquasse /pla.kas/ |
plaquasses /pla.kas/ |
plaquât /pla.ka/ |
plaquassions /pla.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
plaquassiez /pla.ka.sje/ |
plaquassent /pla.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | plaque /plak/ |
— | plaquons /pla.kɔ̃/ |
plaquez /pla.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “plaquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.