remorquer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian rimorchiare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.mɔʁ.ke/

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Verb

remorquer

1. to tow (e.g. a trailer, vessel)

   Synonym: (a marine vessel) touer

Conjugation

Conjugation of remorquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	remorquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	remorquant /ʁə.mɔʁ.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		remorqué /ʁə.mɔʁ.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	remorque /ʁə.mɔʁk/	remorques /ʁə.mɔʁk/	remorque /ʁə.mɔʁk/	remorquons /ʁə.mɔʁ.kɔ̃/	remorquez /ʁə.mɔʁ.ke/	remorquent /ʁə.mɔʁk/
	imperfect	remorquais /ʁə.mɔʁ.kɛ/	remorquais /ʁə.mɔʁ.kɛ/	remorquait /ʁə.mɔʁ.kɛ/	remorquions /ʁə.mɔʁ.kjɔ̃/	remorquiez /ʁə.mɔʁ.kje/	remorquaient /ʁə.mɔʁ.kɛ/
	past historic2	remorquai /ʁə.mɔʁ.ke/	remorquas /ʁə.mɔʁ.ka/	remorqua /ʁə.mɔʁ.ka/	remorquâmes /ʁə.mɔʁ.kam/	remorquâtes /ʁə.mɔʁ.kat/	remorquèrent /ʁə.mɔʁ.kɛʁ/
	future	remorquerai /ʁə.mɔʁ.kə.ʁe/	remorqueras /ʁə.mɔʁ.kə.ʁa/	remorquera /ʁə.mɔʁ.kə.ʁa/	remorquerons /ʁə.mɔʁ.kə.ʁɔ̃/	remorquerez /ʁə.mɔʁ.kə.ʁe/	remorqueront /ʁə.mɔʁ.kə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	remorquerais /ʁə.mɔʁ.kə.ʁɛ/	remorquerais /ʁə.mɔʁ.kə.ʁɛ/	remorquerait /ʁə.mɔʁ.kə.ʁɛ/	remorquerions /ʁə.mɔʁ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	remorqueriez /ʁə.mɔʁ.kə.ʁje/	remorqueraient /ʁə.mɔʁ.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	remorque /ʁə.mɔʁk/	remorques /ʁə.mɔʁk/	remorque /ʁə.mɔʁk/	remorquions /ʁə.mɔʁ.kjɔ̃/	remorquiez /ʁə.mɔʁ.kje/	remorquent /ʁə.mɔʁk/
	imperfect2	remorquasse /ʁə.mɔʁ.kas/	remorquasses /ʁə.mɔʁ.kas/	remorquât /ʁə.mɔʁ.ka/	remorquassions /ʁə.mɔʁ.ka.sjɔ̃/	remorquassiez /ʁə.mɔʁ.ka.sje/	remorquassent /ʁə.mɔʁ.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	remorque /ʁə.mɔʁk/	—	remorquons /ʁə.mɔʁ.kɔ̃/	remorquez /ʁə.mɔʁ.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

• remorque
• remorqueur
• remorqueuse

Descendants

• → Romanian: remorca
• Turkish: römork

Further reading

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