quérir
See also: querir
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French querir, from Old French querre (with conjugation change), from Latin quaerere (“to seek”). Compare also Walloon cweri. Cognate with Spanish querer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ke.ʁiʁ/
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Verb
quérir
Conjugation
- Many dictionaries give quérir as a defective verb, only appearing as an infinitive. However historically, it has a conjugation.
This verb is impersonal and is conjugated only in the third-person singular.
Conjugation of quérir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | quérir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | quérant /ke.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | quis /ki/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | — | — | quiert /kjɛʁ/ |
— | — | — |
| imperfect | — | — | quérait /ke.ʁɛ/ |
— | — | — | |
| past historic2 | — | — | quit /ki/ |
— | — | — | |
| future | — | — | querra /kɛ.ʁa/ or /ke.ʁa/ |
— | — | — | |
| conditional | — | — | querrait /kɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ke.ʁɛ/ |
— | — | — | |
| (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 | — | — | quière /kjɛʁ/ |
— | — | — |
| imperfect2 | — | — | quît /ki/ |
— | — | — | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Conjugation of quérir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | quérir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | quérant /ke.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | quis /ki/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | quiers /kjɛʁ/ |
quiers /kjɛʁ/ |
quiert /kjɛʁ/ |
quérons /ke.ʁɔ̃/ |
quérez /ke.ʁe/ |
quièrent /kjɛʁ/ |
| imperfect | quérais /ke.ʁɛ/ |
quérais /ke.ʁɛ/ |
quérait /ke.ʁɛ/ |
quérions /ke.ʁjɔ̃/ |
quériez /ke.ʁje/ |
quéraient /ke.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | quis /ki/ |
quis /ki/ |
quit /ki/ |
quîmes /kim/ |
quîtes /kit/ |
quirent /kiʁ/ | |
| future | querrai /kɛ.ʁe/ or /ke.ʁe/ |
querras /kɛ.ʁa/ or /ke.ʁa/ |
querra /kɛ.ʁa/ or /ke.ʁa/ |
querrons /kɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ke.ʁɔ̃/ |
querrez /kɛ.ʁe/ or /ke.ʁe/ |
querront /kɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ke.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | querrais /kɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ke.ʁɛ/ |
querrais /kɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ke.ʁɛ/ |
querrait /kɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ke.ʁɛ/ |
querrions /kɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ke.ʁjɔ̃/ |
querriez /kɛ.ʁje/ or /ke.ʁje/ |
querraient /kɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ke.ʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | quière /kjɛʁ/ |
quières /kjɛʁ/ |
quière /kjɛʁ/ |
quérions /ke.ʁjɔ̃/ |
quériez /ke.ʁje/ |
quièrent /kjɛʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | quisse /kis/ |
quisses /kis/ |
quît /ki/ |
quissions /ki.sjɔ̃/ |
quissiez /ki.sje/ |
quissent /kis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | quiers /kjɛʁ/ |
— | quérons /ke.ʁɔ̃/ |
quérez /ke.ʁe/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Descendants
- Sabir: quérir
Further reading
- “quérir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Sabir
References
- Feissat et Demonchy, Dictionnaire de la Langue Franque, ou Petit Mauresque
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