revendiquer

French

Etymology

Back-formation from revendication.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ke/

• Audio (Vosges, France)

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Verb

revendiquer

1. (law) to demand
2. to claim, to lay claim to (ownership), to stake a claim to

   revendiquer la paternité d’un ouvrage ― to lay claim to authorship of a work

   • 1851, Henri Murger, Scènes de la vie de bohème [Scenes of Bohemian Life]:

     La Bohème […] a existé de tout temps et partout, et peut revendiquer d’illustres origines.

     The Bohemian life […] has existed always and everywhere, and can claim illustrious origins.

3. to take on, assume (responsibility)

   J’en revendique l’entière responsabilité. ― I take on full responsibility for it.

Conjugation

Conjugation of revendiquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	revendiquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	revendiquant /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		revendiqué /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	revendique /ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/	revendiques /ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/	revendique /ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/	revendiquons /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kɔ̃/	revendiquez /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ke/	revendiquent /ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/
	imperfect	revendiquais /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kɛ/	revendiquais /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kɛ/	revendiquait /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kɛ/	revendiquions /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kjɔ̃/	revendiquiez /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kje/	revendiquaient /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kɛ/
	past historic2	revendiquai /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ke/	revendiquas /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ka/	revendiqua /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ka/	revendiquâmes /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kam/	revendiquâtes /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kat/	revendiquèrent /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kɛʁ/
	future	revendiquerai /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁe/	revendiqueras /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁa/	revendiquera /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁa/	revendiquerons /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁɔ̃/	revendiquerez /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁe/	revendiqueront /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	revendiquerais /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁɛ/	revendiquerais /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁɛ/	revendiquerait /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁɛ/	revendiquerions /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	revendiqueriez /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kə.ʁje/	revendiqueraient /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.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	revendique /ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/	revendiques /ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/	revendique /ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/	revendiquions /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kjɔ̃/	revendiquiez /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kje/	revendiquent /ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/
	imperfect2	revendiquasse /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kas/	revendiquasses /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kas/	revendiquât /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ka/	revendiquassions /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ka.sjɔ̃/	revendiquassiez /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ka.sje/	revendiquassent /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	revendique /ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/	—	revendiquons /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kɔ̃/	revendiquez /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.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).

Derived terms

• revendicant
• revendicatoire

 

Further reading

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