tronquer

French

Etymology

Southern dialect form of troncher, from Latin truncō (“I truncate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɔ̃.ke/

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Verb

tronquer

1. to truncate (shorten something as if by cutting off part of it)
2. to shorten, cut

Conjugation

Conjugation of tronquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tronquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tronquant /tʁɔ̃.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tronqué /tʁɔ̃.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tronque /tʁɔ̃k/	tronques /tʁɔ̃k/	tronque /tʁɔ̃k/	tronquons /tʁɔ̃.kɔ̃/	tronquez /tʁɔ̃.ke/	tronquent /tʁɔ̃k/
	imperfect	tronquais /tʁɔ̃.kɛ/	tronquais /tʁɔ̃.kɛ/	tronquait /tʁɔ̃.kɛ/	tronquions /tʁɔ̃.kjɔ̃/	tronquiez /tʁɔ̃.kje/	tronquaient /tʁɔ̃.kɛ/
	past historic2	tronquai /tʁɔ̃.ke/	tronquas /tʁɔ̃.ka/	tronqua /tʁɔ̃.ka/	tronquâmes /tʁɔ̃.kam/	tronquâtes /tʁɔ̃.kat/	tronquèrent /tʁɔ̃.kɛʁ/
	future	tronquerai /tʁɔ̃.kʁe/	tronqueras /tʁɔ̃.kʁa/	tronquera /tʁɔ̃.kʁa/	tronquerons /tʁɔ̃.kʁɔ̃/	tronquerez /tʁɔ̃.kʁe/	tronqueront /tʁɔ̃.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tronquerais /tʁɔ̃.kʁɛ/	tronquerais /tʁɔ̃.kʁɛ/	tronquerait /tʁɔ̃.kʁɛ/	tronquerions /tʁɔ̃.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	tronqueriez /tʁɔ̃.kə.ʁje/	tronqueraient /tʁɔ̃.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	tronque /tʁɔ̃k/	tronques /tʁɔ̃k/	tronque /tʁɔ̃k/	tronquions /tʁɔ̃.kjɔ̃/	tronquiez /tʁɔ̃.kje/	tronquent /tʁɔ̃k/
	imperfect2	tronquasse /tʁɔ̃.kas/	tronquasses /tʁɔ̃.kas/	tronquât /tʁɔ̃.ka/	tronquassions /tʁɔ̃.ka.sjɔ̃/	tronquassiez /tʁɔ̃.ka.sje/	tronquassent /tʁɔ̃.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tronque /tʁɔ̃k/	—	tronquons /tʁɔ̃.kɔ̃/	tronquez /tʁɔ̃.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

• tronc

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• querront