bloquer
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /blɔke/
Verb
bloquer
- to block (physically), to barricade, to obstruct
- Un arbre bloque le passage.
- A tree is blocking [off] the passage.
- to jam, to wedge, to fix in place
- to freeze (e.g. prices)
- Les agriculteurs souhaitent bloquer le prix de leur blé.
- The farmers are wishing to block the price of their wheat.
- to defeat
- Ils doivent bloquer ses adversaires.
- They must defeat their opponents.
- to block, to impede, to hinder
- L’adrénaline peut ralentir ou bloquer le travail.
- Adrenaline can slow down or impede work.
- (reflexive, of a computer program) To freeze, to lock up
- (reflexive) To become jammed
- (reflexive) To retreat
Conjugation
Conjugation of bloquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | bloquant /blɔ.kɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | bloqué /blɔ.ke/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | bloquer | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | bloquant /blɔ.kɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | bloque /blɔk/ |
bloques /blɔk/ |
bloque /blɔk/ |
bloquons /blɔ.kɔ̃/ |
bloquez /blɔ.ke/ |
bloquent /blɔk/ |
| imperfect | bloquais /blɔ.kɛ/ |
bloquais /blɔ.kɛ/ |
bloquait /blɔ.kɛ/ |
bloquions /blɔ.kjɔ̃/ |
bloquiez /blɔ.kje/ |
bloquaient /blɔ.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | bloquai /blɔ.ke/ |
bloquas /blɔ.ka/ |
bloqua /blɔ.ka/ |
bloquâmes /blɔ.kam/ |
bloquâtes /blɔ.kat/ |
bloquèrent /blɔ.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | bloquerai /blɔ.kʁe/ |
bloqueras /blɔ.kʁa/ |
bloquera /blɔ.kʁa/ |
bloquerons /blɔ.kʁɔ̃/ |
bloquerez /blɔ.kʁe/ |
bloqueront /blɔ.kʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | bloquerais /blɔ.kʁɛ/ |
bloquerais /blɔ.kʁɛ/ |
bloquerait /blɔ.kʁɛ/ |
bloquerions /blɔ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
bloqueriez /blɔ.kə.ʁje/ |
bloqueraient /blɔ.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 | bloque /blɔk/ |
bloques /blɔk/ |
bloque /blɔk/ |
bloquions /blɔ.kjɔ̃/ |
bloquiez /blɔ.kje/ |
bloquent /blɔk/ |
| imperfect2 | bloquasse /blɔ.kas/ |
bloquasses /blɔ.kas/ |
bloquât /blɔ.ka/ |
bloquassions /blɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
bloquassiez /blɔ.ka.sje/ |
bloquassent /blɔ.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | bloque /blɔk/ |
— | bloquons /blɔ.kɔ̃/ |
bloquez /blɔ.ke/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Descendants
- → German: blockieren
- → Galician: bloquear
- → Portuguese: bloquear
- → Spanish: bloquear
Further reading
- “bloquer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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