tourniquer

French

Etymology

Frequentative of tourner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuʁ.ni.ke/

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Verb

tourniquer

1. (intransitive) to wind (around)

Conjugation

Conjugation of tourniquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tourniquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tourniquant /tuʁ.ni.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tourniqué /tuʁ.ni.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tournique /tuʁ.nik/	tourniques /tuʁ.nik/	tournique /tuʁ.nik/	tourniquons /tuʁ.ni.kɔ̃/	tourniquez /tuʁ.ni.ke/	tourniquent /tuʁ.nik/
	imperfect	tourniquais /tuʁ.ni.kɛ/	tourniquais /tuʁ.ni.kɛ/	tourniquait /tuʁ.ni.kɛ/	tourniquions /tuʁ.ni.kjɔ̃/	tourniquiez /tuʁ.ni.kje/	tourniquaient /tuʁ.ni.kɛ/
	past historic2	tourniquai /tuʁ.ni.ke/	tourniquas /tuʁ.ni.ka/	tourniqua /tuʁ.ni.ka/	tourniquâmes /tuʁ.ni.kam/	tourniquâtes /tuʁ.ni.kat/	tourniquèrent /tuʁ.ni.kɛʁ/
	future	tourniquerai /tuʁ.ni.kʁe/	tourniqueras /tuʁ.ni.kʁa/	tourniquera /tuʁ.ni.kʁa/	tourniquerons /tuʁ.ni.kʁɔ̃/	tourniquerez /tuʁ.ni.kʁe/	tourniqueront /tuʁ.ni.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tourniquerais /tuʁ.ni.kʁɛ/	tourniquerais /tuʁ.ni.kʁɛ/	tourniquerait /tuʁ.ni.kʁɛ/	tourniquerions /tuʁ.ni.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	tourniqueriez /tuʁ.ni.kə.ʁje/	tourniqueraient /tuʁ.ni.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	tournique /tuʁ.nik/	tourniques /tuʁ.nik/	tournique /tuʁ.nik/	tourniquions /tuʁ.ni.kjɔ̃/	tourniquiez /tuʁ.ni.kje/	tourniquent /tuʁ.nik/
	imperfect2	tourniquasse /tuʁ.ni.kas/	tourniquasses /tuʁ.ni.kas/	tourniquât /tuʁ.ni.ka/	tourniquassions /tuʁ.ni.ka.sjɔ̃/	tourniquassiez /tuʁ.ni.ka.sje/	tourniquassent /tuʁ.ni.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tournique /tuʁ.nik/	—	tourniquons /tuʁ.ni.kɔ̃/	tourniquez /tuʁ.ni.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

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