retoquer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.tɔ.ke/

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Verb

retoquer

1. to reject, to turn down (especially a proposal)
2. (dated) to refuse candidacy to, especially, an exam

Conjugation

Conjugation of retoquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	retoquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	retoquant /ʁə.tɔ.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		retoqué /ʁə.tɔ.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	retoque /ʁə.tɔk/	retoques /ʁə.tɔk/	retoque /ʁə.tɔk/	retoquons /ʁə.tɔ.kɔ̃/	retoquez /ʁə.tɔ.ke/	retoquent /ʁə.tɔk/
	imperfect	retoquais /ʁə.tɔ.kɛ/	retoquais /ʁə.tɔ.kɛ/	retoquait /ʁə.tɔ.kɛ/	retoquions /ʁə.tɔ.kjɔ̃/	retoquiez /ʁə.tɔ.kje/	retoquaient /ʁə.tɔ.kɛ/
	past historic2	retoquai /ʁə.tɔ.ke/	retoquas /ʁə.tɔ.ka/	retoqua /ʁə.tɔ.ka/	retoquâmes /ʁə.tɔ.kam/	retoquâtes /ʁə.tɔ.kat/	retoquèrent /ʁə.tɔ.kɛʁ/
	future	retoquerai /ʁə.tɔ.kʁe/	retoqueras /ʁə.tɔ.kʁa/	retoquera /ʁə.tɔ.kʁa/	retoquerons /ʁə.tɔ.kʁɔ̃/	retoquerez /ʁə.tɔ.kʁe/	retoqueront /ʁə.tɔ.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	retoquerais /ʁə.tɔ.kʁɛ/	retoquerais /ʁə.tɔ.kʁɛ/	retoquerait /ʁə.tɔ.kʁɛ/	retoquerions /ʁə.tɔ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	retoqueriez /ʁə.tɔ.kə.ʁje/	retoqueraient /ʁə.tɔ.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	retoque /ʁə.tɔk/	retoques /ʁə.tɔk/	retoque /ʁə.tɔk/	retoquions /ʁə.tɔ.kjɔ̃/	retoquiez /ʁə.tɔ.kje/	retoquent /ʁə.tɔk/
	imperfect2	retoquasse /ʁə.tɔ.kas/	retoquasses /ʁə.tɔ.kas/	retoquât /ʁə.tɔ.ka/	retoquassions /ʁə.tɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/	retoquassiez /ʁə.tɔ.ka.sje/	retoquassent /ʁə.tɔ.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	retoque /ʁə.tɔk/	—	retoquons /ʁə.tɔ.kɔ̃/	retoquez /ʁə.tɔ.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

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