poquer
French
Etymology
Of Germanic origin, perhaps from Middle Dutch poken or Middle Low German poken (both from Proto-Germanic *puk-), which is probably imitative.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɔ.ke/
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Verb
poquer
- (obsolete, intransitive, pétanque) to throw the boule up high so that it stops dead when it hits the ground
- Synonym: plomber
- (slang, intransitive) to stink
- Synonym: puer
- 2023 April, Siné mensuel, number 128, →ISSN, page 11:
- Tu vois, Tof, c’est pas compliqué de parler écologie aux jeunes. Par contre, ton gel, qu’est-ce que ça poque.
- You see, Tof, it isn't hard to talk to young people about the environment. Your hair gel, though – it doesn't half stink.
Conjugation
Conjugation of poquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | poquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | poquant /pɔ.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | poqué /pɔ.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | poque /pɔk/ |
poques /pɔk/ |
poque /pɔk/ |
poquons /pɔ.kɔ̃/ |
poquez /pɔ.ke/ |
poquent /pɔk/ |
| imperfect | poquais /pɔ.kɛ/ |
poquais /pɔ.kɛ/ |
poquait /pɔ.kɛ/ |
poquions /pɔ.kjɔ̃/ |
poquiez /pɔ.kje/ |
poquaient /pɔ.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | poquai /pɔ.ke/ |
poquas /pɔ.ka/ |
poqua /pɔ.ka/ |
poquâmes /pɔ.kam/ |
poquâtes /pɔ.kat/ |
poquèrent /pɔ.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | poquerai /pɔ.kʁe/ |
poqueras /pɔ.kʁa/ |
poquera /pɔ.kʁa/ |
poquerons /pɔ.kʁɔ̃/ |
poquerez /pɔ.kʁe/ |
poqueront /pɔ.kʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | poquerais /pɔ.kʁɛ/ |
poquerais /pɔ.kʁɛ/ |
poquerait /pɔ.kʁɛ/ |
poquerions /pɔ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
poqueriez /pɔ.kə.ʁje/ |
poqueraient /pɔ.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 | poque /pɔk/ |
poques /pɔk/ |
poque /pɔk/ |
poquions /pɔ.kjɔ̃/ |
poquiez /pɔ.kje/ |
poquent /pɔk/ |
| imperfect2 | poquasse /pɔ.kas/ |
poquasses /pɔ.kas/ |
poquât /pɔ.ka/ |
poquassions /pɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
poquassiez /pɔ.ka.sje/ |
poquassent /pɔ.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | poque /pɔk/ |
— | poquons /pɔ.kɔ̃/ |
poquez /pɔ.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “poquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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