Inherited from Middle French cliqueter, from Old French cliketer, equivalent to cliquer (“to click, clink”) + -eter (frequentative suffix).
cliqueter
With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.
| infinitive | simple | cliqueter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cliquetant /klik.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | cliqueté /klik.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cliquette or cliquète /kli.kɛt/ |
cliquettes or cliquètes /kli.kɛt/ |
cliquette or cliquète /kli.kɛt/ |
cliquetons /klik.tɔ̃/ |
cliquetez /klik.te/ |
cliquettent or cliquètent /kli.kɛt/ |
| imperfect | cliquetais /klik.tɛ/ |
cliquetais /klik.tɛ/ |
cliquetait /klik.tɛ/ |
cliquetions /kli.kə.tjɔ̃/ |
cliquetiez /kli.kə.tje/ |
cliquetaient /klik.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cliquetai /klik.te/ |
cliquetas /klik.ta/ |
cliqueta /klik.ta/ |
cliquetâmes /klik.tam/ |
cliquetâtes /klik.tat/ |
cliquetèrent /klik.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | cliquetterai or cliquèterai /kli.kɛ.tʁe/ or /kli.ke.tʁe/ |
cliquetteras or cliquèteras /kli.kɛ.tʁa/ or /kli.ke.tʁa/ |
cliquettera or cliquètera /kli.kɛ.tʁa/ or /kli.ke.tʁa/ |
cliquetterons or cliquèterons /kli.kɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /kli.ke.tʁɔ̃/ |
cliquetterez or cliquèterez /kli.kɛ.tʁe/ or /kli.ke.tʁe/ |
cliquetteront or cliquèteront /kli.kɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /kli.ke.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | cliquetterais or cliquèterais /kli.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kli.ke.tʁɛ/ |
cliquetterais or cliquèterais /kli.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kli.ke.tʁɛ/ |
cliquetterait or cliquèterait /kli.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kli.ke.tʁɛ/ |
cliquetterions or cliquèterions /kli.kɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /kli.ke.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cliquetteriez or cliquèteriez /kli.kɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /kli.ke.tə.ʁje/ |
cliquetteraient or cliquèteraient /kli.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kli.ke.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | cliquette or cliquète /kli.kɛt/ |
cliquettes or cliquètes /kli.kɛt/ |
cliquette or cliquète /kli.kɛt/ |
cliquetions /kli.kə.tjɔ̃/ |
cliquetiez /kli.kə.tje/ |
cliquettent or cliquètent /kli.kɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | cliquetasse /klik.tas/ |
cliquetasses /klik.tas/ |
cliquetât /klik.ta/ |
cliquetassions /klik.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
cliquetassiez /klik.ta.sje/ |
cliquetassent /klik.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | cliquette or cliquète /kli.kɛt/ |
— | cliquetons /klik.tɔ̃/ |
cliquetez /klik.te/ |
— | |
| 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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||