pratiquer
French
Etymology
From Medieval Latin prāctica (“practical affairs”, “business”), from Ancient Greek πρακτική (praktikḗ, “practice, experience”), from πρακτικός (praktikós, “practical”), from πράσσω (prássō, “to do”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʁa.ti.ke/
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Conjugation
Conjugation of pratiquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | pratiquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | pratiquant /pʁa.ti.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pratiqué /pʁa.ti.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | pratique /pʁa.tik/ |
pratiques /pʁa.tik/ |
pratique /pʁa.tik/ |
pratiquons /pʁa.ti.kɔ̃/ |
pratiquez /pʁa.ti.ke/ |
pratiquent /pʁa.tik/ |
| imperfect | pratiquais /pʁa.ti.kɛ/ |
pratiquais /pʁa.ti.kɛ/ |
pratiquait /pʁa.ti.kɛ/ |
pratiquions /pʁa.ti.kjɔ̃/ |
pratiquiez /pʁa.ti.kje/ |
pratiquaient /pʁa.ti.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | pratiquai /pʁa.ti.ke/ |
pratiquas /pʁa.ti.ka/ |
pratiqua /pʁa.ti.ka/ |
pratiquâmes /pʁa.ti.kam/ |
pratiquâtes /pʁa.ti.kat/ |
pratiquèrent /pʁa.ti.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | pratiquerai /pʁa.ti.kʁe/ |
pratiqueras /pʁa.ti.kʁa/ |
pratiquera /pʁa.ti.kʁa/ |
pratiquerons /pʁa.ti.kʁɔ̃/ |
pratiquerez /pʁa.ti.kʁe/ |
pratiqueront /pʁa.ti.kʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pratiquerais /pʁa.ti.kʁɛ/ |
pratiquerais /pʁa.ti.kʁɛ/ |
pratiquerait /pʁa.ti.kʁɛ/ |
pratiquerions /pʁa.ti.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pratiqueriez /pʁa.ti.kə.ʁje/ |
pratiqueraient /pʁa.ti.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 | pratique /pʁa.tik/ |
pratiques /pʁa.tik/ |
pratique /pʁa.tik/ |
pratiquions /pʁa.ti.kjɔ̃/ |
pratiquiez /pʁa.ti.kje/ |
pratiquent /pʁa.tik/ |
| imperfect2 | pratiquasse /pʁa.ti.kas/ |
pratiquasses /pʁa.ti.kas/ |
pratiquât /pʁa.ti.ka/ |
pratiquassions /pʁa.ti.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
pratiquassiez /pʁa.ti.ka.sje/ |
pratiquassent /pʁa.ti.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pratique /pʁa.tik/ |
— | pratiquons /pʁa.ti.kɔ̃/ |
pratiquez /pʁa.ti.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
- “pratiquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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