revendiquer

French

Etymology

Back-formation from revendication.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ke/
  • Audio (Vosges, France)(file)

Verb

revendiquer

  1. (law) to demand
  2. to claim, to lay claim to (ownership), to stake a claim to
    revendiquer la paternité d’un ouvrage ― to lay claim to authorship of a work
    • 1851, Henri Murger, Scènes de la vie de bohème [Scenes of Bohemian Life]:
      La Bohème […] a existé de tout temps et partout, et peut revendiquer d’illustres origines.
      The Bohemian life […] has existed always and everywhere, and can claim illustrious origins.
  3. to take on, assume (responsibility)
    J’en revendique l’entière responsabilité. ― I take on full responsibility for it.

Conjugation
Conjugation of revendiquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple revendiquer
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple revendiquant
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle revendiqué
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ke/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present revendique
/ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/		 revendiques
/ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/		 revendique
/ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/		 revendiquons
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kɔ̃/		 revendiquez
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ke/		 revendiquent
/ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/
imperfect revendiquais
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kɛ/		 revendiquais
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kɛ/		 revendiquait
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kɛ/		 revendiquions
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kjɔ̃/		 revendiquiez
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kje/		 revendiquaient
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kɛ/
past historic2 revendiquai
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ke/		 revendiquas
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ka/		 revendiqua
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ka/		 revendiquâmes
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kam/		 revendiquâtes
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kat/		 revendiquèrent
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kɛʁ/
future revendiquerai
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁe/		 revendiqueras
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁa/		 revendiquera
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁa/		 revendiquerons
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁɔ̃/		 revendiquerez
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁe/		 revendiqueront
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁɔ̃/
conditional revendiquerais
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁɛ/		 revendiquerais
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁɛ/		 revendiquerait
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kʁɛ/		 revendiquerions
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kə.ʁjɔ̃/		 revendiqueriez
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kə.ʁje/		 revendiqueraient
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.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 revendique
/ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/		 revendiques
/ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/		 revendique
/ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/		 revendiquions
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kjɔ̃/		 revendiquiez
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kje/		 revendiquent
/ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/
imperfect2 revendiquasse
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kas/		 revendiquasses
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kas/		 revendiquât
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ka/		 revendiquassions
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ka.sjɔ̃/		 revendiquassiez
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.ka.sje/		 revendiquassent
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — revendique
/ʁə.vɑ̃.dik/		 — revendiquons
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.kɔ̃/		 revendiquez
/ʁə.vɑ̃.di.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).

Derived terms
  • revendicant
  • revendicatoire

Further reading
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