impliquer

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin implicāre. Doublet of employer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.pli.ke/

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Verb

impliquer

1. to implicate, to accuse
2. to imply
3. to involve
   • 1903, Maurice Pillard Verneuil, Étude de la plante‎^[1], page 2:

     Elle implique, pour faire œuvre valable, la connaissance des lois principales de l'art ornemental, et surtout de la technique complète du métier qui exécutera cette œuvre.

     To produce work of merit, it involves knowledge of the fundamental principles of ornamental art and, above all, a complete mastery of the technique of the craft that will execute the work.

4. (reflexive, s'impliquer, ~ dans) to get involved in, to participate in

Conjugation

Conjugation of impliquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	impliquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	impliquant /ɛ̃.pli.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		impliqué /ɛ̃.pli.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	implique /ɛ̃.plik/	impliques /ɛ̃.plik/	implique /ɛ̃.plik/	impliquons /ɛ̃.pli.kɔ̃/	impliquez /ɛ̃.pli.ke/	impliquent /ɛ̃.plik/
	imperfect	impliquais /ɛ̃.pli.kɛ/	impliquais /ɛ̃.pli.kɛ/	impliquait /ɛ̃.pli.kɛ/	impliquions /ɛ̃.pli.kjɔ̃/	impliquiez /ɛ̃.pli.kje/	impliquaient /ɛ̃.pli.kɛ/
	past historic2	impliquai /ɛ̃.pli.ke/	impliquas /ɛ̃.pli.ka/	impliqua /ɛ̃.pli.ka/	impliquâmes /ɛ̃.pli.kam/	impliquâtes /ɛ̃.pli.kat/	impliquèrent /ɛ̃.pli.kɛʁ/
	future	impliquerai /ɛ̃.pli.kʁe/	impliqueras /ɛ̃.pli.kʁa/	impliquera /ɛ̃.pli.kʁa/	impliquerons /ɛ̃.pli.kʁɔ̃/	impliquerez /ɛ̃.pli.kʁe/	impliqueront /ɛ̃.pli.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	impliquerais /ɛ̃.pli.kʁɛ/	impliquerais /ɛ̃.pli.kʁɛ/	impliquerait /ɛ̃.pli.kʁɛ/	impliquerions /ɛ̃.pli.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	impliqueriez /ɛ̃.pli.kə.ʁje/	impliqueraient /ɛ̃.pli.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	implique /ɛ̃.plik/	impliques /ɛ̃.plik/	implique /ɛ̃.plik/	impliquions /ɛ̃.pli.kjɔ̃/	impliquiez /ɛ̃.pli.kje/	impliquent /ɛ̃.plik/
	imperfect2	impliquasse /ɛ̃.pli.kas/	impliquasses /ɛ̃.pli.kas/	impliquât /ɛ̃.pli.ka/	impliquassions /ɛ̃.pli.ka.sjɔ̃/	impliquassiez /ɛ̃.pli.ka.sje/	impliquassent /ɛ̃.pli.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	implique /ɛ̃.plik/	—	impliquons /ɛ̃.pli.kɔ̃/	impliquez /ɛ̃.pli.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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• implication

Further reading

• “impliquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012