cornaquer
French
Etymology
From cornac (“elephant driver, guide”), borrowed from Portuguese cornaca, from Sinhalese කූරුව-නායක (kūruwa-nāyaka, “elephant trainer”), from කූරුව (kūruwa, “elephant department”) + Sanskrit नायक (nāyaka, “guide, leader”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔʁ.na.ke/
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Verb
cornaquer
- to guide, to serve as a guide
- 2021 April 15, “En Provence, voler demeure un rêve d'enfants”, in La Provence, →ISSN, page 1:
- Les aéronefs légers se succédaient à toute vitesse, cornaqués par radio par la tour de contrôle, ils partaient voler au-dessus de la Sainte Victoire, des calanques, mettaient le cap sur la Corse ou les Hautes-Alpes.
- Light aircraft followed each other at full speed, guided by radio from the control tower, they left to fly over Sainte Victoire, creeks, they set course for Corsica or the Hautes-Alpes.
Conjugation
Conjugation of cornaquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | cornaquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cornaquant /kɔʁ.na.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | cornaqué /kɔʁ.na.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cornaque /kɔʁ.nak/ |
cornaques /kɔʁ.nak/ |
cornaque /kɔʁ.nak/ |
cornaquons /kɔʁ.na.kɔ̃/ |
cornaquez /kɔʁ.na.ke/ |
cornaquent /kɔʁ.nak/ |
| imperfect | cornaquais /kɔʁ.na.kɛ/ |
cornaquais /kɔʁ.na.kɛ/ |
cornaquait /kɔʁ.na.kɛ/ |
cornaquions /kɔʁ.na.kjɔ̃/ |
cornaquiez /kɔʁ.na.kje/ |
cornaquaient /kɔʁ.na.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cornaquai /kɔʁ.na.ke/ |
cornaquas /kɔʁ.na.ka/ |
cornaqua /kɔʁ.na.ka/ |
cornaquâmes /kɔʁ.na.kam/ |
cornaquâtes /kɔʁ.na.kat/ |
cornaquèrent /kɔʁ.na.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | cornaquerai /kɔʁ.na.kʁe/ |
cornaqueras /kɔʁ.na.kʁa/ |
cornaquera /kɔʁ.na.kʁa/ |
cornaquerons /kɔʁ.na.kʁɔ̃/ |
cornaquerez /kɔʁ.na.kʁe/ |
cornaqueront /kɔʁ.na.kʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | cornaquerais /kɔʁ.na.kʁɛ/ |
cornaquerais /kɔʁ.na.kʁɛ/ |
cornaquerait /kɔʁ.na.kʁɛ/ |
cornaquerions /kɔʁ.na.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cornaqueriez /kɔʁ.na.kə.ʁje/ |
cornaqueraient /kɔʁ.na.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 | cornaque /kɔʁ.nak/ |
cornaques /kɔʁ.nak/ |
cornaque /kɔʁ.nak/ |
cornaquions /kɔʁ.na.kjɔ̃/ |
cornaquiez /kɔʁ.na.kje/ |
cornaquent /kɔʁ.nak/ |
| imperfect2 | cornaquasse /kɔʁ.na.kas/ |
cornaquasses /kɔʁ.na.kas/ |
cornaquât /kɔʁ.na.ka/ |
cornaquassions /kɔʁ.na.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
cornaquassiez /kɔʁ.na.ka.sje/ |
cornaquassent /kɔʁ.na.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | cornaque /kɔʁ.nak/ |
— | cornaquons /kɔʁ.na.kɔ̃/ |
cornaquez /kɔʁ.na.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “cornac”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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