pratiquer

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin prāctica (“practical affairs”, “business”), from Ancient Greek πρακτική (praktikḗ, “practice, experience”), from πρακτικός (praktikós, “practical”), from πράσσω (prássō, “to do”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁa.ti.ke/

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Verb

pratiquer

1. (transitive) to do; to practise

Conjugation

Conjugation of pratiquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pratiquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pratiquant /pʁa.ti.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pratiqué /pʁa.ti.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pratique /pʁa.tik/	pratiques /pʁa.tik/	pratique /pʁa.tik/	pratiquons /pʁa.ti.kɔ̃/	pratiquez /pʁa.ti.ke/	pratiquent /pʁa.tik/
	imperfect	pratiquais /pʁa.ti.kɛ/	pratiquais /pʁa.ti.kɛ/	pratiquait /pʁa.ti.kɛ/	pratiquions /pʁa.ti.kjɔ̃/	pratiquiez /pʁa.ti.kje/	pratiquaient /pʁa.ti.kɛ/
	past historic2	pratiquai /pʁa.ti.ke/	pratiquas /pʁa.ti.ka/	pratiqua /pʁa.ti.ka/	pratiquâmes /pʁa.ti.kam/	pratiquâtes /pʁa.ti.kat/	pratiquèrent /pʁa.ti.kɛʁ/
	future	pratiquerai /pʁa.ti.kʁe/	pratiqueras /pʁa.ti.kʁa/	pratiquera /pʁa.ti.kʁa/	pratiquerons /pʁa.ti.kʁɔ̃/	pratiquerez /pʁa.ti.kʁe/	pratiqueront /pʁa.ti.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pratiquerais /pʁa.ti.kʁɛ/	pratiquerais /pʁa.ti.kʁɛ/	pratiquerait /pʁa.ti.kʁɛ/	pratiquerions /pʁa.ti.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	pratiqueriez /pʁa.ti.kə.ʁje/	pratiqueraient /pʁa.ti.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	pratique /pʁa.tik/	pratiques /pʁa.tik/	pratique /pʁa.tik/	pratiquions /pʁa.ti.kjɔ̃/	pratiquiez /pʁa.ti.kje/	pratiquent /pʁa.tik/
	imperfect2	pratiquasse /pʁa.ti.kas/	pratiquasses /pʁa.ti.kas/	pratiquât /pʁa.ti.ka/	pratiquassions /pʁa.ti.ka.sjɔ̃/	pratiquassiez /pʁa.ti.ka.sje/	pratiquassent /pʁa.ti.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pratique /pʁa.tik/	—	pratiquons /pʁa.ti.kɔ̃/	pratiquez /pʁa.ti.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).

Further reading

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