tictaquer

French

Etymology

tic-tac +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tik.ta.ke/

Verb

tictaquer

1. (intransitive) to tick (away)

Conjugation

Conjugation of tictaquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tictaquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tictaquant /tik.ta.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tictaqué /tik.ta.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tictaque /tik.tak/	tictaques /tik.tak/	tictaque /tik.tak/	tictaquons /tik.ta.kɔ̃/	tictaquez /tik.ta.ke/	tictaquent /tik.tak/
	imperfect	tictaquais /tik.ta.kɛ/	tictaquais /tik.ta.kɛ/	tictaquait /tik.ta.kɛ/	tictaquions /tik.ta.kjɔ̃/	tictaquiez /tik.ta.kje/	tictaquaient /tik.ta.kɛ/
	past historic2	tictaquai /tik.ta.ke/	tictaquas /tik.ta.ka/	tictaqua /tik.ta.ka/	tictaquâmes /tik.ta.kam/	tictaquâtes /tik.ta.kat/	tictaquèrent /tik.ta.kɛʁ/
	future	tictaquerai /tik.ta.kʁe/	tictaqueras /tik.ta.kʁa/	tictaquera /tik.ta.kʁa/	tictaquerons /tik.ta.kʁɔ̃/	tictaquerez /tik.ta.kʁe/	tictaqueront /tik.ta.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tictaquerais /tik.ta.kʁɛ/	tictaquerais /tik.ta.kʁɛ/	tictaquerait /tik.ta.kʁɛ/	tictaquerions /tik.ta.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	tictaqueriez /tik.ta.kə.ʁje/	tictaqueraient /tik.ta.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	tictaque /tik.tak/	tictaques /tik.tak/	tictaque /tik.tak/	tictaquions /tik.ta.kjɔ̃/	tictaquiez /tik.ta.kje/	tictaquent /tik.tak/
	imperfect2	tictaquasse /tik.ta.kas/	tictaquasses /tik.ta.kas/	tictaquât /tik.ta.ka/	tictaquassions /tik.ta.ka.sjɔ̃/	tictaquassiez /tik.ta.ka.sje/	tictaquassent /tik.ta.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tictaque /tik.tak/	—	tictaquons /tik.ta.kɔ̃/	tictaquez /tik.ta.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

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