requérir

See also: requerir

French

Etymology

From Middle French requerir, from Old French requerre (with a conjugation change as with quérir), from Latin requirō, requirere.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʁə.ke.ʁiʁ/
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Verb

requérir

  1. to call for, to require
  2. to request, to summon
  3. to demand
  4. to need

Conjugation
Conjugation of requérir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple requérir
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple requérant
/ʁə.ke.ʁɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle requis
/ʁə.ki/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present requiers
/ʁə.kjɛʁ/		 requiers
/ʁə.kjɛʁ/		 requiert
/ʁə.kjɛʁ/		 requérons
/ʁə.ke.ʁɔ̃/		 requérez
/ʁə.ke.ʁe/		 requièrent
/ʁə.kjɛʁ/
imperfect requérais
/ʁə.ke.ʁɛ/		 requérais
/ʁə.ke.ʁɛ/		 requérait
/ʁə.ke.ʁɛ/		 requérions
/ʁə.ke.ʁjɔ̃/		 requériez
/ʁə.ke.ʁje/		 requéraient
/ʁə.ke.ʁɛ/
past historic2 requis
/ʁə.ki/		 requis
/ʁə.ki/		 requit
/ʁə.ki/		 requîmes
/ʁə.kim/		 requîtes
/ʁə.kit/		 requirent
/ʁə.kiʁ/
future requerrai
/ʁə.kɛ.ʁe/ or /ʁə.ke.ʁe/		 requerras
/ʁə.kɛ.ʁa/ or /ʁə.ke.ʁa/		 requerra
/ʁə.kɛ.ʁa/ or /ʁə.ke.ʁa/		 requerrons
/ʁə.kɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.ke.ʁɔ̃/		 requerrez
/ʁə.kɛ.ʁe/ or /ʁə.ke.ʁe/		 requerront
/ʁə.kɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.ke.ʁɔ̃/
conditional requerrais
/ʁə.kɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.ke.ʁɛ/		 requerrais
/ʁə.kɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.ke.ʁɛ/		 requerrait
/ʁə.kɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.ke.ʁɛ/		 requerrions
/ʁə.kɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.ke.ʁjɔ̃/		 requerriez
/ʁə.kɛ.ʁje/ or /ʁə.ke.ʁje/		 requerraient
/ʁə.kɛ.ʁɛ/ or /ʁə.ke.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 requière
/ʁə.kjɛʁ/		 requières
/ʁə.kjɛʁ/		 requière
/ʁə.kjɛʁ/		 requérions
/ʁə.ke.ʁjɔ̃/		 requériez
/ʁə.ke.ʁje/		 requièrent
/ʁə.kjɛʁ/
imperfect2 requisse
/ʁə.kis/		 requisses
/ʁə.kis/		 requît
/ʁə.ki/		 requissions
/ʁə.ki.sjɔ̃/		 requissiez
/ʁə.ki.sje/		 requissent
/ʁə.kis/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — requiers
/ʁə.kjɛʁ/		 — requérons
/ʁə.ke.ʁɔ̃/		 requérez
/ʁə.ke.ʁe/		 —
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).

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