laquer

French

Etymology

From laque +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /la.ke/

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Verb

laquer

1. (transitive) to lacquer

Conjugation

Conjugation of laquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	laquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	laquant /la.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		laqué /la.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	laque /lak/	laques /lak/	laque /lak/	laquons /la.kɔ̃/	laquez /la.ke/	laquent /lak/
	imperfect	laquais /la.kɛ/	laquais /la.kɛ/	laquait /la.kɛ/	laquions /la.kjɔ̃/	laquiez /la.kje/	laquaient /la.kɛ/
	past historic2	laquai /la.ke/	laquas /la.ka/	laqua /la.ka/	laquâmes /la.kam/	laquâtes /la.kat/	laquèrent /la.kɛʁ/
	future	laquerai /la.kʁe/	laqueras /la.kʁa/	laquera /la.kʁa/	laquerons /la.kʁɔ̃/	laquerez /la.kʁe/	laqueront /la.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	laquerais /la.kʁɛ/	laquerais /la.kʁɛ/	laquerait /la.kʁɛ/	laquerions /la.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	laqueriez /la.kə.ʁje/	laqueraient /la.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	laque /lak/	laques /lak/	laque /lak/	laquions /la.kjɔ̃/	laquiez /la.kje/	laquent /lak/
	imperfect2	laquasse /la.kas/	laquasses /la.kas/	laquât /la.ka/	laquassions /la.ka.sjɔ̃/	laquassiez /la.ka.sje/	laquassent /la.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	laque /lak/	—	laquons /la.kɔ̃/	laquez /la.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

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