colloquer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.lɔ.ke/

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Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin collocāre (“set in place”). Doublet of coucher, which was inherited.

Verb

colloquer

1. (transitive, archaic, rare) to lodge someone, to set up someone in a place, to establish, to install

Conjugation

Conjugation of colloquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	colloquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	colloquant /kɔ.lɔ.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		colloqué /kɔ.lɔ.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	colloque /kɔ.lɔk/	colloques /kɔ.lɔk/	colloque /kɔ.lɔk/	colloquons /kɔ.lɔ.kɔ̃/	colloquez /kɔ.lɔ.ke/	colloquent /kɔ.lɔk/
	imperfect	colloquais /kɔ.lɔ.kɛ/	colloquais /kɔ.lɔ.kɛ/	colloquait /kɔ.lɔ.kɛ/	colloquions /kɔ.lɔ.kjɔ̃/	colloquiez /kɔ.lɔ.kje/	colloquaient /kɔ.lɔ.kɛ/
	past historic2	colloquai /kɔ.lɔ.ke/	colloquas /kɔ.lɔ.ka/	colloqua /kɔ.lɔ.ka/	colloquâmes /kɔ.lɔ.kam/	colloquâtes /kɔ.lɔ.kat/	colloquèrent /kɔ.lɔ.kɛʁ/
	future	colloquerai /kɔ.lɔ.kʁe/	colloqueras /kɔ.lɔ.kʁa/	colloquera /kɔ.lɔ.kʁa/	colloquerons /kɔ.lɔ.kʁɔ̃/	colloquerez /kɔ.lɔ.kʁe/	colloqueront /kɔ.lɔ.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	colloquerais /kɔ.lɔ.kʁɛ/	colloquerais /kɔ.lɔ.kʁɛ/	colloquerait /kɔ.lɔ.kʁɛ/	colloquerions /kɔ.lɔ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	colloqueriez /kɔ.lɔ.kə.ʁje/	colloqueraient /kɔ.lɔ.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	colloque /kɔ.lɔk/	colloques /kɔ.lɔk/	colloque /kɔ.lɔk/	colloquions /kɔ.lɔ.kjɔ̃/	colloquiez /kɔ.lɔ.kje/	colloquent /kɔ.lɔk/
	imperfect2	colloquasse /kɔ.lɔ.kas/	colloquasses /kɔ.lɔ.kas/	colloquât /kɔ.lɔ.ka/	colloquassions /kɔ.lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/	colloquassiez /kɔ.lɔ.ka.sje/	colloquassent /kɔ.lɔ.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	colloque /kɔ.lɔk/	—	colloquons /kɔ.lɔ.kɔ̃/	colloquez /kɔ.lɔ.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).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin colloquor (“to speak with”).

Verb

colloquer

1. (rare) to converse [with avec ‘with someone’]

Related terms

• colloque

Further reading

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