hoqueter

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French hoqueter, *icqueter, probably of Germanic origin, ultimately onomatopoeic. Compare Old Norse hixta (“to hiccup”), Middle High German heschezen, heschitzen (“to gulp, burp, sob”), Middle Dutch hicken (“to hiccup”), obsolete English hicket, hyckock (“hiccup”). More at hiccup.

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɔk.te/

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Verb

hoqueter

1. to hiccup

Conjugation

With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.

Conjugation of hoqueter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	hoqueter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	hoquetant /ɔk.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		hoqueté /ɔk.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	hoquette or hoquète /ɔ.kɛt/	hoquettes or hoquètes /ɔ.kɛt/	hoquette or hoquète /ɔ.kɛt/	hoquetons /ɔk.tɔ̃/	hoquetez /ɔk.te/	hoquettent or hoquètent /ɔ.kɛt/
	imperfect	hoquetais /ɔk.tɛ/	hoquetais /ɔk.tɛ/	hoquetait /ɔk.tɛ/	hoquetions /ɔ.kə.tjɔ̃/	hoquetiez /ɔ.kə.tje/	hoquetaient /ɔk.tɛ/
	past historic2	hoquetai /ɔk.te/	hoquetas /ɔk.ta/	hoqueta /ɔk.ta/	hoquetâmes /ɔk.tam/	hoquetâtes /ɔk.tat/	hoquetèrent /ɔk.tɛʁ/
	future	hoquetterai or hoquèterai /ɔ.kɛ.tʁe/ or /ɔ.ke.tʁe/	hoquetteras or hoquèteras /ɔ.kɛ.tʁa/ or /ɔ.ke.tʁa/	hoquettera or hoquètera /ɔ.kɛ.tʁa/ or /ɔ.ke.tʁa/	hoquetterons or hoquèterons /ɔ.kɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ɔ.ke.tʁɔ̃/	hoquetterez or hoquèterez /ɔ.kɛ.tʁe/ or /ɔ.ke.tʁe/	hoquetteront or hoquèteront /ɔ.kɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ɔ.ke.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	hoquetterais or hoquèterais /ɔ.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ɔ.ke.tʁɛ/	hoquetterais or hoquèterais /ɔ.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ɔ.ke.tʁɛ/	hoquetterait or hoquèterait /ɔ.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ɔ.ke.tʁɛ/	hoquetterions or hoquèterions /ɔ.kɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɔ.ke.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	hoquetteriez or hoquèteriez /ɔ.kɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /ɔ.ke.tə.ʁje/	hoquetteraient or hoquèteraient /ɔ.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ɔ.ke.tʁɛ/
(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	hoquette or hoquète /ɔ.kɛt/	hoquettes or hoquètes /ɔ.kɛt/	hoquette or hoquète /ɔ.kɛt/	hoquetions /ɔ.kə.tjɔ̃/	hoquetiez /ɔ.kə.tje/	hoquettent or hoquètent /ɔ.kɛt/
	imperfect2	hoquetasse /ɔk.tas/	hoquetasses /ɔk.tas/	hoquetât /ɔk.ta/	hoquetassions /ɔk.ta.sjɔ̃/	hoquetassiez /ɔk.ta.sje/	hoquetassent /ɔk.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	hoquette or hoquète /ɔ.kɛt/	—	hoquetons /ɔk.tɔ̃/	hoquetez /ɔk.te/	—
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

• hoquet

Further reading

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