impliquer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin implicāre. Doublet of employer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.pli.ke/

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Verb

impliquer

1. to implicate, to accuse
2. to imply
3. to involve
4. (reflexive, s'impliquer, ~ dans) to get involved in, to participate in

Conjugation

Conjugation of impliquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	impliquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	impliquant /ɛ̃.pli.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		impliqué /ɛ̃.pli.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	implique /ɛ̃.plik/	impliques /ɛ̃.plik/	implique /ɛ̃.plik/	impliquons /ɛ̃.pli.kɔ̃/	impliquez /ɛ̃.pli.ke/	impliquent /ɛ̃.plik/
	imperfect	impliquais /ɛ̃.pli.kɛ/	impliquais /ɛ̃.pli.kɛ/	impliquait /ɛ̃.pli.kɛ/	impliquions /ɛ̃.pli.kjɔ̃/	impliquiez /ɛ̃.pli.kje/	impliquaient /ɛ̃.pli.kɛ/
	past historic2	impliquai /ɛ̃.pli.ke/	impliquas /ɛ̃.pli.ka/	impliqua /ɛ̃.pli.ka/	impliquâmes /ɛ̃.pli.kam/	impliquâtes /ɛ̃.pli.kat/	impliquèrent /ɛ̃.pli.kɛʁ/
	future	impliquerai /ɛ̃.pli.kʁe/	impliqueras /ɛ̃.pli.kʁa/	impliquera /ɛ̃.pli.kʁa/	impliquerons /ɛ̃.pli.kʁɔ̃/	impliquerez /ɛ̃.pli.kʁe/	impliqueront /ɛ̃.pli.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	impliquerais /ɛ̃.pli.kʁɛ/	impliquerais /ɛ̃.pli.kʁɛ/	impliquerait /ɛ̃.pli.kʁɛ/	impliquerions /ɛ̃.pli.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	impliqueriez /ɛ̃.pli.kə.ʁje/	impliqueraient /ɛ̃.pli.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	implique /ɛ̃.plik/	impliques /ɛ̃.plik/	implique /ɛ̃.plik/	impliquions /ɛ̃.pli.kjɔ̃/	impliquiez /ɛ̃.pli.kje/	impliquent /ɛ̃.plik/
	imperfect2	impliquasse /ɛ̃.pli.kas/	impliquasses /ɛ̃.pli.kas/	impliquât /ɛ̃.pli.ka/	impliquassions /ɛ̃.pli.ka.sjɔ̃/	impliquassiez /ɛ̃.pli.ka.sje/	impliquassent /ɛ̃.pli.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	implique /ɛ̃.plik/	—	impliquons /ɛ̃.pli.kɔ̃/	impliquez /ɛ̃.pli.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).

Related terms

• implication

Further reading

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