cloquer
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Late Latin *cloccārius, from clocca (“bell”).
Pronunciation
Noun
cloquer m (plural cloquers)
- bell tower
- Synonym: campanar
Further reading
- “cloquer”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “cloquer”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klɔ.ke/
Audio (France (Vosges)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) Audio (France (Somain)): (file) - Homophones: cloqué, cloquée, cloquées, cloqués
Verb
cloquer
- (intransitive) to blister (get blisters)
- (transitive) to blister (raise blisters)
- Les gouttes d'huile bouillante lui avaient cloqué les mains et les bras. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- (transitive) to emboss (a textile)
- Synonym: gaufrer
Conjugation
Conjugation of cloquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | cloquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cloquant /klɔ.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | cloqué /klɔ.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cloque /klɔk/ |
cloques /klɔk/ |
cloque /klɔk/ |
cloquons /klɔ.kɔ̃/ |
cloquez /klɔ.ke/ |
cloquent /klɔk/ |
| imperfect | cloquais /klɔ.kɛ/ |
cloquais /klɔ.kɛ/ |
cloquait /klɔ.kɛ/ |
cloquions /klɔ.kjɔ̃/ |
cloquiez /klɔ.kje/ |
cloquaient /klɔ.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cloquai /klɔ.ke/ |
cloquas /klɔ.ka/ |
cloqua /klɔ.ka/ |
cloquâmes /klɔ.kam/ |
cloquâtes /klɔ.kat/ |
cloquèrent /klɔ.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | cloquerai /klɔ.kʁe/ |
cloqueras /klɔ.kʁa/ |
cloquera /klɔ.kʁa/ |
cloquerons /klɔ.kʁɔ̃/ |
cloquerez /klɔ.kʁe/ |
cloqueront /klɔ.kʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | cloquerais /klɔ.kʁɛ/ |
cloquerais /klɔ.kʁɛ/ |
cloquerait /klɔ.kʁɛ/ |
cloquerions /klɔ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cloqueriez /klɔ.kə.ʁje/ |
cloqueraient /klɔ.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 | cloque /klɔk/ |
cloques /klɔk/ |
cloque /klɔk/ |
cloquions /klɔ.kjɔ̃/ |
cloquiez /klɔ.kje/ |
cloquent /klɔk/ |
| imperfect2 | cloquasse /klɔ.kas/ |
cloquasses /klɔ.kas/ |
cloquât /klɔ.ka/ |
cloquassions /klɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
cloquassiez /klɔ.ka.sje/ |
cloquassent /klɔ.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | cloque /klɔk/ |
— | cloquons /klɔ.kɔ̃/ |
cloquez /klɔ.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
- cloquage
Further reading
- “cloquer” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 9th Edition (1992-).
- “cloquer”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse
- “cloquer” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
- “cloquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012