casquer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kas.ke/

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Etymology 1

From Italian cascare (“to fall”). Sense 2 is a development of sense 1.

Verb

casquer

1. (intransitive) to fall into a trap, particularly by paying money in advance
2. (ambitransitive) to cough up, stump up, fork out, shell out (money)

Etymology 2

From casque, perhaps influenced by an analysis of casqué (which predates casquer) as a past participle.

Verb

casquer

1. (transitive) to cover with (something resembling) a helmet
2. (reflexive) to put on (something resembling) a helmet

Conjugation

Conjugation of casquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	casquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	casquant /kas.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		casqué /kas.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	casque /kask/	casques /kask/	casque /kask/	casquons /kas.kɔ̃/	casquez /kas.ke/	casquent /kask/
	imperfect	casquais /kas.kɛ/	casquais /kas.kɛ/	casquait /kas.kɛ/	casquions /kas.kjɔ̃/	casquiez /kas.kje/	casquaient /kas.kɛ/
	past historic2	casquai /kas.ke/	casquas /kas.ka/	casqua /kas.ka/	casquâmes /kas.kam/	casquâtes /kas.kat/	casquèrent /kas.kɛʁ/
	future	casquerai /kas.kə.ʁe/	casqueras /kas.kə.ʁa/	casquera /kas.kə.ʁa/	casquerons /kas.kə.ʁɔ̃/	casquerez /kas.kə.ʁe/	casqueront /kas.kə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	casquerais /kas.kə.ʁɛ/	casquerais /kas.kə.ʁɛ/	casquerait /kas.kə.ʁɛ/	casquerions /kas.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	casqueriez /kas.kə.ʁje/	casqueraient /kas.kə.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	casque /kask/	casques /kask/	casque /kask/	casquions /kas.kjɔ̃/	casquiez /kas.kje/	casquent /kask/
	imperfect2	casquasse /kas.kas/	casquasses /kas.kas/	casquât /kas.ka/	casquassions /kas.ka.sjɔ̃/	casquassiez /kas.ka.sje/	casquassent /kas.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	casque /kask/	—	casquons /kas.kɔ̃/	casquez /kas.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

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