revendiquer

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French

Etymology

Back-formation from revendication.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ke/
  • Audio (Vosges):(file)

Verb

revendiquer

  1. (law) to demand
  2. to claim, to lay claim to (ownership), to stake a claim to
    revendiquer la paternité d’un ouvrage ― to lay claim to authorship of a work
    • 1851, Henri Murger, Scènes de la vie de bohème [Scenes of Bohemian Life]:
      La Bohème […] a existé de tout temps et partout, et peut revendiquer d’illustres origines.
      The Bohemian life has existed always and everywhere, and can claim illustrious origins.
  3. to take on, assume (responsibility)
    J’en revendique l’entière responsabilité. ― I take on full responsibility for it.

Conjugation

Conjugation of revendiquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple revendiquer
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple revendiquant
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle revendiqué
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ke/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present revendique
/ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/ 		revendiques
/ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/ 		revendique
/ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/ 		revendiquons
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kɔ̃/ 		revendiquez
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ke/ 		revendiquent
/ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/
imperfect revendiquais
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kɛ/ 		revendiquais
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kɛ/ 		revendiquait
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kɛ/ 		revendiquions
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kjɔ̃/ 		revendiquiez
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kje/ 		revendiquaient
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kɛ/
past historic2 revendiquai
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ke/ 		revendiquas
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ka/ 		revendiqua
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ka/ 		revendiquâmes
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kam/ 		revendiquâtes
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kat/ 		revendiquèrent
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kɛʁ/
future revendiquerai
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁe/ 		revendiqueras
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁa/ 		revendiquera
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁa/ 		revendiquerons
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁɔ̃/ 		revendiquerez
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁe/ 		revendiqueront
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁɔ̃/
conditional revendiquerais
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁɛ/ 		revendiquerais
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁɛ/ 		revendiquerait
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁɛ/ 		revendiquerions
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		revendiqueriez
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kə.ʁje/ 		revendiqueraient
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.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 revendique
/ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/ 		revendiques
/ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/ 		revendique
/ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/ 		revendiquions
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kjɔ̃/ 		revendiquiez
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kje/ 		revendiquent
/ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/
imperfect2 revendiquasse
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kas/ 		revendiquasses
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kas/ 		revendiquât
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ka/ 		revendiquassions
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ka.sjɔ̃/ 		revendiquassiez
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ka.sje/ 		revendiquassent
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — revendique
/ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/ 		— revendiquons
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kɔ̃/ 		revendiquez
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ke/ 		—
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:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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