raquer
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French ragier, whence English racket.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁa.ke/
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Verb
raquer
- (slang) to pay up
- 2006, Virginie Despentes, “Coucher avec l'ennemi”, in King Kong Théorie [King Kong Theory], Éditions Grasset, →ISBN, page 76:
- […] au moins la pute, le client satisfait, peut aller faire un tour tranquille —, que pour ces mecs dont la sexualité n'est admise que s'ils ont les moyens de raquer.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 2, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:
- —Allez faire votre fric ailleurs, suceurs ! Elle, elle est là pour nous ! Vous, vous êtes là pour qu’on raque !
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of raquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | raquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | raquant /ʁa.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | raqué /ʁa.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | raque /ʁak/ |
raques /ʁak/ |
raque /ʁak/ |
raquons /ʁa.kɔ̃/ |
raquez /ʁa.ke/ |
raquent /ʁak/ |
| imperfect | raquais /ʁa.kɛ/ |
raquais /ʁa.kɛ/ |
raquait /ʁa.kɛ/ |
raquions /ʁa.kjɔ̃/ |
raquiez /ʁa.kje/ |
raquaient /ʁa.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | raquai /ʁa.ke/ |
raquas /ʁa.ka/ |
raqua /ʁa.ka/ |
raquâmes /ʁa.kam/ |
raquâtes /ʁa.kat/ |
raquèrent /ʁa.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | raquerai /ʁa.kʁe/ |
raqueras /ʁa.kʁa/ |
raquera /ʁa.kʁa/ |
raquerons /ʁa.kʁɔ̃/ |
raquerez /ʁa.kʁe/ |
raqueront /ʁa.kʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | raquerais /ʁa.kʁɛ/ |
raquerais /ʁa.kʁɛ/ |
raquerait /ʁa.kʁɛ/ |
raquerions /ʁa.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
raqueriez /ʁa.kə.ʁje/ |
raqueraient /ʁa.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 | raque /ʁak/ |
raques /ʁak/ |
raque /ʁak/ |
raquions /ʁa.kjɔ̃/ |
raquiez /ʁa.kje/ |
raquent /ʁak/ |
| imperfect2 | raquasse /ʁa.kas/ |
raquasses /ʁa.kas/ |
raquât /ʁa.ka/ |
raquassions /ʁa.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
raquassiez /ʁa.ka.sje/ |
raquassent /ʁa.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | raque /ʁak/ |
— | raquons /ʁa.kɔ̃/ |
raquez /ʁa.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
- “raquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.