risquer
French
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)
| present participle | risquant /ʁis.kɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | risqué /ʁis.ke/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | risquer | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | risquant /ʁis.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 | 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 historic2 | 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 | 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 | risque /ʁisk/ |
risques /ʁisk/ |
risque /ʁisk/ |
risquions /ʁis.kjɔ̃/ |
risquiez /ʁis.kje/ |
risquent /ʁisk/ |
| imperfect2 | risquasse /ʁis.kas/ |
risquasses /ʁis.kas/ |
risquât /ʁis.ka/ |
risquassions /ʁis.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
risquassiez /ʁis.ka.sje/ |
risquassent /ʁis.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | risque /ʁisk/ |
— | risquons /ʁis.kɔ̃/ |
risquez /ʁis.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “risquer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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