biqueter
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Verb
biqueter
- to kid (give birth to baby goats)
Conjugation
With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.
Conjugation of biqueter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | biqueter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | biquetant /bik.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | biqueté /bik.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | biquette or biquète /bi.kɛt/ |
biquettes or biquètes /bi.kɛt/ |
biquette or biquète /bi.kɛt/ |
biquetons /bik.tɔ̃/ |
biquetez /bik.te/ |
biquettent or biquètent /bi.kɛt/ |
| imperfect | biquetais /bik.tɛ/ |
biquetais /bik.tɛ/ |
biquetait /bik.tɛ/ |
biquetions /bi.kə.tjɔ̃/ |
biquetiez /bi.kə.tje/ |
biquetaient /bik.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | biquetai /bik.te/ |
biquetas /bik.ta/ |
biqueta /bik.ta/ |
biquetâmes /bik.tam/ |
biquetâtes /bik.tat/ |
biquetèrent /bik.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | biquetterai or biquèterai /bi.kɛ.tʁe/ or /bi.ke.tʁe/ |
biquetteras or biquèteras /bi.kɛ.tʁa/ or /bi.ke.tʁa/ |
biquettera or biquètera /bi.kɛ.tʁa/ or /bi.ke.tʁa/ |
biquetterons or biquèterons /bi.kɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /bi.ke.tʁɔ̃/ |
biquetterez or biquèterez /bi.kɛ.tʁe/ or /bi.ke.tʁe/ |
biquetteront or biquèteront /bi.kɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /bi.ke.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | biquetterais or biquèterais /bi.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /bi.ke.tʁɛ/ |
biquetterais or biquèterais /bi.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /bi.ke.tʁɛ/ |
biquetterait or biquèterait /bi.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /bi.ke.tʁɛ/ |
biquetterions or biquèterions /bi.kɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /bi.ke.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
biquetteriez or biquèteriez /bi.kɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /bi.ke.tə.ʁje/ |
biquetteraient or biquèteraient /bi.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /bi.ke.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | biquette or biquète /bi.kɛt/ |
biquettes or biquètes /bi.kɛt/ |
biquette or biquète /bi.kɛt/ |
biquetions /bi.kə.tjɔ̃/ |
biquetiez /bi.kə.tje/ |
biquettent or biquètent /bi.kɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | biquetasse /bik.tas/ |
biquetasses /bik.tas/ |
biquetât /bik.ta/ |
biquetassions /bik.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
biquetassiez /bik.ta.sje/ |
biquetassent /bik.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | biquette or biquète /bi.kɛt/ |
— | biquetons /bik.tɔ̃/ |
biquetez /bik.te/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||