roquer

Catalan

Etymology

From roca +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ruˈke]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [roˈke]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [roˈkeɾ]

Adjective

roquer (feminine roquera, masculine plural roquers, feminine plural roqueres)

1. (relational) rock

Noun

roquer m (plural roquers)

1. the rocky bottom of a body of water
2. crag martin

Derived terms

• roquerol

Further reading

• “roquer”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

French

Etymology

From Middle French roc (“tower”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔ.ke/

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Verb

roquer

1. (chess) to castle

Conjugation

Conjugation of roquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	roquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	roquant /ʁɔ.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		roqué /ʁɔ.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	roque /ʁɔk/	roques /ʁɔk/	roque /ʁɔk/	roquons /ʁɔ.kɔ̃/	roquez /ʁɔ.ke/	roquent /ʁɔk/
	imperfect	roquais /ʁɔ.kɛ/	roquais /ʁɔ.kɛ/	roquait /ʁɔ.kɛ/	roquions /ʁɔ.kjɔ̃/	roquiez /ʁɔ.kje/	roquaient /ʁɔ.kɛ/
	past historic2	roquai /ʁɔ.ke/	roquas /ʁɔ.ka/	roqua /ʁɔ.ka/	roquâmes /ʁɔ.kam/	roquâtes /ʁɔ.kat/	roquèrent /ʁɔ.kɛʁ/
	future	roquerai /ʁɔ.kʁe/	roqueras /ʁɔ.kʁa/	roquera /ʁɔ.kʁa/	roquerons /ʁɔ.kʁɔ̃/	roquerez /ʁɔ.kʁe/	roqueront /ʁɔ.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	roquerais /ʁɔ.kʁɛ/	roquerais /ʁɔ.kʁɛ/	roquerait /ʁɔ.kʁɛ/	roquerions /ʁɔ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	roqueriez /ʁɔ.kə.ʁje/	roqueraient /ʁɔ.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	roque /ʁɔk/	roques /ʁɔk/	roque /ʁɔk/	roquions /ʁɔ.kjɔ̃/	roquiez /ʁɔ.kje/	roquent /ʁɔk/
	imperfect2	roquasse /ʁɔ.kas/	roquasses /ʁɔ.kas/	roquât /ʁɔ.ka/	roquassions /ʁɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/	roquassiez /ʁɔ.ka.sje/	roquassent /ʁɔ.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	roque /ʁɔk/	—	roquons /ʁɔ.kɔ̃/	roquez /ʁɔ.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

• roque
• rocade

Further reading

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