argüer

See also: arguer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ɡɥe/

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Verb

argüer

1. post-1990 spelling of arguer

Conjugation

Conjugation of argüer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	argüer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	argüant /aʁ.ɡɥɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		argüé /aʁ.ɡɥe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	argüe /aʁ.ɡy/	argües /aʁ.ɡy/	argüe /aʁ.ɡy/	argüons /aʁ.ɡɥɔ̃/	argüez /aʁ.ɡɥe/	argüent /aʁ.ɡy/
	imperfect	argüais /aʁ.ɡɥɛ/	argüais /aʁ.ɡɥɛ/	argüait /aʁ.ɡɥɛ/	argüions /aʁ.ɡy.jɔ̃/	argüiez /aʁ.ɡy.je/	argüaient /aʁ.ɡɥɛ/
	past historic2	argüai /aʁ.ɡɥe/	argüas /aʁ.ɡɥa/	argüa /aʁ.ɡɥa/	argüâmes /aʁ.ɡɥam/	argüâtes /aʁ.ɡɥat/	argüèrent /aʁ.ɡɥɛʁ/
	future	argüerai /aʁ.ɡy.ʁe/	argüeras /aʁ.ɡy.ʁa/	argüera /aʁ.ɡy.ʁa/	argüerons /aʁ.ɡy.ʁɔ̃/	argüerez /aʁ.ɡy.ʁe/	argüeront /aʁ.ɡy.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	argüerais /aʁ.ɡy.ʁɛ/	argüerais /aʁ.ɡy.ʁɛ/	argüerait /aʁ.ɡy.ʁɛ/	argüerions /aʁ.ɡy.ʁjɔ̃/	argüeriez /aʁ.ɡy.ʁje/	argüeraient /aʁ.ɡy.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	argüe /aʁ.ɡy/	argües /aʁ.ɡy/	argüe /aʁ.ɡy/	argüions /aʁ.ɡy.jɔ̃/	argüiez /aʁ.ɡy.je/	argüent /aʁ.ɡy/
	imperfect2	argüasse /aʁ.ɡɥas/	argüasses /aʁ.ɡɥas/	argüât /aʁ.ɡɥa/	argüassions /aʁ.ɡɥa.sjɔ̃/	argüassiez /aʁ.ɡɥa.sje/	argüassent /aʁ.ɡɥas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	argüe /aʁ.ɡy/	—	argüons /aʁ.ɡɥɔ̃/	argüez /aʁ.ɡɥe/	—
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

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