reluquer

French

Etymology

c. 1730, from re- +‎ luquier, second part from Middle French luquier, from Old French luquier, borrowed from Middle Dutch loeken, from Old Dutch *lōkon, from Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn (“to look”), akin to English look.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.ly.ke/

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Verb

reluquer

1. to ogle, leer

Conjugation

Conjugation of reluquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	reluquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	reluquant /ʁə.ly.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		reluqué /ʁə.ly.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	reluque /ʁə.lyk/	reluques /ʁə.lyk/	reluque /ʁə.lyk/	reluquons /ʁə.ly.kɔ̃/	reluquez /ʁə.ly.ke/	reluquent /ʁə.lyk/
	imperfect	reluquais /ʁə.ly.kɛ/	reluquais /ʁə.ly.kɛ/	reluquait /ʁə.ly.kɛ/	reluquions /ʁə.ly.kjɔ̃/	reluquiez /ʁə.ly.kje/	reluquaient /ʁə.ly.kɛ/
	past historic2	reluquai /ʁə.ly.ke/	reluquas /ʁə.ly.ka/	reluqua /ʁə.ly.ka/	reluquâmes /ʁə.ly.kam/	reluquâtes /ʁə.ly.kat/	reluquèrent /ʁə.ly.kɛʁ/
	future	reluquerai /ʁə.ly.kʁe/	reluqueras /ʁə.ly.kʁa/	reluquera /ʁə.ly.kʁa/	reluquerons /ʁə.ly.kʁɔ̃/	reluquerez /ʁə.ly.kʁe/	reluqueront /ʁə.ly.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	reluquerais /ʁə.ly.kʁɛ/	reluquerais /ʁə.ly.kʁɛ/	reluquerait /ʁə.ly.kʁɛ/	reluquerions /ʁə.ly.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	reluqueriez /ʁə.ly.kə.ʁje/	reluqueraient /ʁə.ly.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	reluque /ʁə.lyk/	reluques /ʁə.lyk/	reluque /ʁə.lyk/	reluquions /ʁə.ly.kjɔ̃/	reluquiez /ʁə.ly.kje/	reluquent /ʁə.lyk/
	imperfect2	reluquasse /ʁə.ly.kas/	reluquasses /ʁə.ly.kas/	reluquât /ʁə.ly.ka/	reluquassions /ʁə.ly.ka.sjɔ̃/	reluquassiez /ʁə.ly.ka.sje/	reluquassent /ʁə.ly.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	reluque /ʁə.lyk/	—	reluquons /ʁə.ly.kɔ̃/	reluquez /ʁə.ly.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

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