hypothéquer

French

Etymology

From hypothèque +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /i.pɔ.te.ke/

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Verb

hypothéquer

1. (transitive) to hypothecate
2. (transitive) to mortgage
3. (transitive, figurative) to weaken or compromise, especially in view of immediate gain

   Son train de vie a beaucoup hypothéqué sa santé.

   His lifestyle has badly compromised his health.

   En favorisant les industries extractives, nous hypothéquons le bien-être de la planète pour des gains à court terme.

   By promoting extractive industries, we put the planet's well-being in jeopardy for short-term profits.

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written 'é') and /ɛ/ (written 'è'), with the latter being used before mute 'e'. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written hypothéquer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written hypothèquer-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.

Conjugation of hypothéquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	hypothéquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	hypothéquant /i.pɔ.te.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		hypothéqué /i.pɔ.te.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	hypothèque /i.pɔ.tɛk/	hypothèques /i.pɔ.tɛk/	hypothèque /i.pɔ.tɛk/	hypothéquons /i.pɔ.te.kɔ̃/	hypothéquez /i.pɔ.te.ke/	hypothèquent /i.pɔ.tɛk/
	imperfect	hypothéquais /i.pɔ.te.kɛ/	hypothéquais /i.pɔ.te.kɛ/	hypothéquait /i.pɔ.te.kɛ/	hypothéquions /i.pɔ.te.kjɔ̃/	hypothéquiez /i.pɔ.te.kje/	hypothéquaient /i.pɔ.te.kɛ/
	past historic2	hypothéquai /i.pɔ.te.ke/	hypothéquas /i.pɔ.te.ka/	hypothéqua /i.pɔ.te.ka/	hypothéquâmes /i.pɔ.te.kam/	hypothéquâtes /i.pɔ.te.kat/	hypothéquèrent /i.pɔ.te.kɛʁ/
	future	hypothèquerai or hypothéquerai /i.pɔ.tɛ.kʁe/ or /i.pɔ.te.kʁe/	hypothèqueras or hypothéqueras /i.pɔ.tɛ.kʁa/ or /i.pɔ.te.kʁa/	hypothèquera or hypothéquera /i.pɔ.tɛ.kʁa/ or /i.pɔ.te.kʁa/	hypothèquerons or hypothéquerons /i.pɔ.tɛ.kʁɔ̃/ or /i.pɔ.te.kʁɔ̃/	hypothèquerez or hypothéquerez /i.pɔ.tɛ.kʁe/ or /i.pɔ.te.kʁe/	hypothèqueront or hypothéqueront /i.pɔ.tɛ.kʁɔ̃/ or /i.pɔ.te.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	hypothèquerais or hypothéquerais /i.pɔ.tɛ.kʁɛ/ or /i.pɔ.te.kʁɛ/	hypothèquerais or hypothéquerais /i.pɔ.tɛ.kʁɛ/ or /i.pɔ.te.kʁɛ/	hypothèquerait or hypothéquerait /i.pɔ.tɛ.kʁɛ/ or /i.pɔ.te.kʁɛ/	hypothèquerions or hypothéquerions /i.pɔ.tɛ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /i.pɔ.te.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	hypothèqueriez or hypothéqueriez /i.pɔ.tɛ.kə.ʁje/ or /i.pɔ.te.kə.ʁje/	hypothèqueraient or hypothéqueraient /i.pɔ.tɛ.kʁɛ/ or /i.pɔ.te.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	hypothèque /i.pɔ.tɛk/	hypothèques /i.pɔ.tɛk/	hypothèque /i.pɔ.tɛk/	hypothéquions /i.pɔ.te.kjɔ̃/	hypothéquiez /i.pɔ.te.kje/	hypothèquent /i.pɔ.tɛk/
	imperfect2	hypothéquasse /i.pɔ.te.kas/	hypothéquasses /i.pɔ.te.kas/	hypothéquât /i.pɔ.te.ka/	hypothéquassions /i.pɔ.te.ka.sjɔ̃/	hypothéquassiez /i.pɔ.te.ka.sje/	hypothéquassent /i.pɔ.te.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	hypothèque /i.pɔ.tɛk/	—	hypothéquons /i.pɔ.te.kɔ̃/	hypothéquez /i.pɔ.te.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

• hypothécaire

Further reading

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