plaquer

French

Etymology

From plaque +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla.ke/

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Verb

plaquer

1. to plate (to cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material)
2. (rugby) to tackle
3. (martial arts) to grapple
4. (colloquial) to leave someone, to break up with someone; to ditch, to dump, to jilt someone

   Elle a plaqué son copain.

   She left her boyfriend.

Conjugation

Conjugation of plaquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	plaquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	plaquant /pla.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		plaqué /pla.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	plaque /plak/	plaques /plak/	plaque /plak/	plaquons /pla.kɔ̃/	plaquez /pla.ke/	plaquent /plak/
	imperfect	plaquais /pla.kɛ/	plaquais /pla.kɛ/	plaquait /pla.kɛ/	plaquions /pla.kjɔ̃/	plaquiez /pla.kje/	plaquaient /pla.kɛ/
	past historic2	plaquai /pla.ke/	plaquas /pla.ka/	plaqua /pla.ka/	plaquâmes /pla.kam/	plaquâtes /pla.kat/	plaquèrent /pla.kɛʁ/
	future	plaquerai /pla.kʁe/	plaqueras /pla.kʁa/	plaquera /pla.kʁa/	plaquerons /pla.kʁɔ̃/	plaquerez /pla.kʁe/	plaqueront /pla.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	plaquerais /pla.kʁɛ/	plaquerais /pla.kʁɛ/	plaquerait /pla.kʁɛ/	plaquerions /pla.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	plaqueriez /pla.kə.ʁje/	plaqueraient /pla.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	plaque /plak/	plaques /plak/	plaque /plak/	plaquions /pla.kjɔ̃/	plaquiez /pla.kje/	plaquent /plak/
	imperfect2	plaquasse /pla.kas/	plaquasses /pla.kas/	plaquât /pla.ka/	plaquassions /pla.ka.sjɔ̃/	plaquassiez /pla.ka.sje/	plaquassent /pla.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	plaque /plak/	—	plaquons /pla.kɔ̃/	plaquez /pla.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).

Derived terms

• plaquage
• plaqueur

Further reading

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