From Middle French trac, from Old French trac (“a track, trace, a beaten path, course”), from Middle Dutch treck, treke (“a drawing, draft, delineation, feature, train, procession, line or flourish with a pen, sketch”), from Old Dutch *trecken, from Proto-Germanic *trakjaną (“to drag”). More at track, trek.
traquer
| infinitive | simple | traquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | traquant /tʁa.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | traqué /tʁa.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | traque /tʁak/ |
traques /tʁak/ |
traque /tʁak/ |
traquons /tʁa.kɔ̃/ |
traquez /tʁa.ke/ |
traquent /tʁak/ |
| imperfect | traquais /tʁa.kɛ/ |
traquais /tʁa.kɛ/ |
traquait /tʁa.kɛ/ |
traquions /tʁa.kjɔ̃/ |
traquiez /tʁa.kje/ |
traquaient /tʁa.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | traquai /tʁa.ke/ |
traquas /tʁa.ka/ |
traqua /tʁa.ka/ |
traquâmes /tʁa.kam/ |
traquâtes /tʁa.kat/ |
traquèrent /tʁa.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | traquerai /tʁa.kʁe/ |
traqueras /tʁa.kʁa/ |
traquera /tʁa.kʁa/ |
traquerons /tʁa.kʁɔ̃/ |
traquerez /tʁa.kʁe/ |
traqueront /tʁa.kʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | traquerais /tʁa.kʁɛ/ |
traquerais /tʁa.kʁɛ/ |
traquerait /tʁa.kʁɛ/ |
traquerions /tʁa.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
traqueriez /tʁa.kə.ʁje/ |
traqueraient /tʁa.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 | traque /tʁak/ |
traques /tʁak/ |
traque /tʁak/ |
traquions /tʁa.kjɔ̃/ |
traquiez /tʁa.kje/ |
traquent /tʁak/ |
| imperfect2 | traquasse /tʁa.kas/ |
traquasses /tʁa.kas/ |
traquât /tʁa.ka/ |
traquassions /tʁa.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
traquassiez /tʁa.ka.sje/ |
traquassent /tʁa.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | traque /tʁak/ |
— | traquons /tʁa.kɔ̃/ |
traquez /tʁa.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:
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||