risquer
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁis.ke/
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Verb
risquer
- (transitive) to risk, to put at risk
- J'ai risqué ma vie pour toi.
- I risked my life for you.
- (transitive) to face, to incur
- Ils risquent une peine de prison.
- They are risking a prison sentence.
- Synonym: encourir
- (followed by the preposition de) to run the risk of; to be likely to
- Si tu fais ça, tu risques de le regretter plus tard.
- If you do that, you risk regretting it later.
Conjugation
Conjugation of risquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | risquer | avoir risqué | |||||
| gerund | en risquant | en ayant risqué | |||||
| present participle | risquant /ʁis.kɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | risqué /ʁis.ke/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | risque /ʁisk/ |
risques /ʁisk/ |
risque /ʁisk/ |
risquons /ʁis.kɔ̃/ |
risquez /ʁis.ke/ |
risquent /ʁisk/ |
| imperfect | risquais /ʁis.kɛ/ |
risquais /ʁis.kɛ/ |
risquait /ʁis.kɛ/ |
risquions /ʁis.kjɔ̃/ |
risquiez /ʁis.kje/ |
risquaient /ʁis.kɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | risquai /ʁis.ke/ |
risquas /ʁis.ka/ |
risqua /ʁis.ka/ |
risquâmes /ʁis.kam/ |
risquâtes /ʁis.kat/ |
risquèrent /ʁis.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | risquerai /ʁis.kə.ʁe/ |
risqueras /ʁis.kə.ʁa/ |
risquera /ʁis.kə.ʁa/ |
risquerons /ʁis.kə.ʁɔ̃/ |
risquerez /ʁis.kə.ʁe/ |
risqueront /ʁis.kə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | risquerais /ʁis.kə.ʁɛ/ |
risquerais /ʁis.kə.ʁɛ/ |
risquerait /ʁis.kə.ʁɛ/ |
risquerions /ʁis.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
risqueriez /ʁis.kə.ʁje/ |
risqueraient /ʁis.kə.ʁɛ/ | |
| 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 | risque /ʁisk/ |
risques /ʁisk/ |
risque /ʁisk/ |
risquions /ʁis.kjɔ̃/ |
risquiez /ʁis.kje/ |
risquent /ʁisk/ |
| imperfect1 | risquasse /ʁis.kas/ |
risquasses /ʁis.kas/ |
risquât /ʁis.ka/ |
risquassions /ʁis.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
risquassiez /ʁis.ka.sje/ |
risquassent /ʁis.kas/ | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | risque /ʁisk/ |
— | risquons /ʁis.kɔ̃/ |
risquez /ʁis.ke/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “risquer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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