requérir

See also: requerir

French

Etymology

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

Synonyms

• demander
• nécessiter
• exiger
• avoir besoin (de)

Related terms

• requête
• réquisition
• réquisitoire

Further reading

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