traquer

French

Etymology

From Middle French trac, from Old French trac (“a track, trace, a beaten path, course”), from Middle Dutch treck, treke (“a drawing, draft, delineation, feature, train, procession, line or flourish with a pen, sketch”), from Old Dutch *trecken, from Proto-Germanic *trakjaną (“to drag”). More at track, trek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁa.ke/

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Verb

traquer

1. to track, follow
2. to track down, hunt down; to hound

Conjugation

Conjugation of traquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	traquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	traquant /tʁa.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		traqué /tʁa.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	traque /tʁak/	traques /tʁak/	traque /tʁak/	traquons /tʁa.kɔ̃/	traquez /tʁa.ke/	traquent /tʁak/
	imperfect	traquais /tʁa.kɛ/	traquais /tʁa.kɛ/	traquait /tʁa.kɛ/	traquions /tʁa.kjɔ̃/	traquiez /tʁa.kje/	traquaient /tʁa.kɛ/
	past historic2	traquai /tʁa.ke/	traquas /tʁa.ka/	traqua /tʁa.ka/	traquâmes /tʁa.kam/	traquâtes /tʁa.kat/	traquèrent /tʁa.kɛʁ/
	future	traquerai /tʁa.kʁe/	traqueras /tʁa.kʁa/	traquera /tʁa.kʁa/	traquerons /tʁa.kʁɔ̃/	traquerez /tʁa.kʁe/	traqueront /tʁa.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	traquerais /tʁa.kʁɛ/	traquerais /tʁa.kʁɛ/	traquerait /tʁa.kʁɛ/	traquerions /tʁa.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	traqueriez /tʁa.kə.ʁje/	traqueraient /tʁa.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	traque /tʁak/	traques /tʁak/	traque /tʁak/	traquions /tʁa.kjɔ̃/	traquiez /tʁa.kje/	traquent /tʁak/
	imperfect2	traquasse /tʁa.kas/	traquasses /tʁa.kas/	traquât /tʁa.ka/	traquassions /tʁa.ka.sjɔ̃/	traquassiez /tʁa.ka.sje/	traquassent /tʁa.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	traque /tʁak/	—	traquons /tʁa.kɔ̃/	traquez /tʁa.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

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

Anagrams

• quarter