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vaquer
vaquer
French
Verb
vaquer
- (archaic) to vacate
- (archaic) to discontinue
- to busy oneself with, to be occupied with
- to scurry about looking for food
- to get down to business
Conjugation
Conjugation of vaquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | vaquer | avoir vaqué | |||||
| gerund | en vaquant | en ayant vaqué | |||||
| present participle | vaquant /va.kɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | vaqué /va.ke/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | vaque /vak/ |
vaques /vak/ |
vaque /vak/ |
vaquons /va.kɔ̃/ |
vaquez /va.ke/ |
vaquent /vak/ |
| imperfect | vaquais /va.kɛ/ |
vaquais /va.kɛ/ |
vaquait /va.kɛ/ |
vaquions /va.kjɔ̃/ |
vaquiez /va.kje/ |
vaquaient /va.kɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | vaquai /va.ke/ |
vaquas /va.ka/ |
vaqua /va.ka/ |
vaquâmes /va.kam/ |
vaquâtes /va.kat/ |
vaquèrent /va.kɛʁ/ |
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| future | vaquerai /va.kʁe/ |
vaqueras /va.kʁa/ |
vaquera /va.kʁa/ |
vaquerons /va.kʁɔ̃/ |
vaquerez /va.kʁe/ |
vaqueront /va.kʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | vaquerais /va.kʁɛ/ |
vaquerais /va.kʁɛ/ |
vaquerait /va.kʁɛ/ |
vaquerions /va.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
vaqueriez /va.kə.ʁje/ |
vaqueraient /va.kʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | vaque /vak/ |
vaques /vak/ |
vaque /vak/ |
vaquions /va.kjɔ̃/ |
vaquiez /va.kje/ |
vaquent /vak/ |
| imperfect1 |
vaquasse /va.kas/ |
vaquasses /va.kas/ |
vaquât /va.ka/ |
vaquassions /va.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
vaquassiez /va.ka.sje/ |
vaquassent /va.kas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | vaque /vak/ |
— | vaquons /va.kɔ̃/ |
vaquez /va.ke/ |
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