risquer

French

Etymology

From risque +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁis.ke/

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Verb

risquer

1. (transitive) to risk, to put at risk

   J’ai risqué ma vie pour toi.

   I risked my life for you.

2. (transitive) to face, to incur

   Synonym: encourir

   Ils risquent une peine de prison.

   They are risking a prison sentence.

3. (followed by the preposition de) to run the risk of; to be likely to

   Si tu fais ça, tu risques de le regretter plus tard.

   If you do that, you risk regretting it later.

Conjugation

Conjugation of risquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	risquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	risquant /ʁis.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		risqué /ʁis.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	risque /ʁisk/	risques /ʁisk/	risque /ʁisk/	risquons /ʁis.kɔ̃/	risquez /ʁis.ke/	risquent /ʁisk/
	imperfect	risquais /ʁis.kɛ/	risquais /ʁis.kɛ/	risquait /ʁis.kɛ/	risquions /ʁis.kjɔ̃/	risquiez /ʁis.kje/	risquaient /ʁis.kɛ/
	past historic2	risquai /ʁis.ke/	risquas /ʁis.ka/	risqua /ʁis.ka/	risquâmes /ʁis.kam/	risquâtes /ʁis.kat/	risquèrent /ʁis.kɛʁ/
	future	risquerai /ʁis.kə.ʁe/	risqueras /ʁis.kə.ʁa/	risquera /ʁis.kə.ʁa/	risquerons /ʁis.kə.ʁɔ̃/	risquerez /ʁis.kə.ʁe/	risqueront /ʁis.kə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	risquerais /ʁis.kə.ʁɛ/	risquerais /ʁis.kə.ʁɛ/	risquerait /ʁis.kə.ʁɛ/	risquerions /ʁis.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	risqueriez /ʁis.kə.ʁje/	risqueraient /ʁis.kə.ʁɛ/
(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	risque /ʁisk/	risques /ʁisk/	risque /ʁisk/	risquions /ʁis.kjɔ̃/	risquiez /ʁis.kje/	risquent /ʁisk/
	imperfect2	risquasse /ʁis.kas/	risquasses /ʁis.kas/	risquât /ʁis.ka/	risquassions /ʁis.ka.sjɔ̃/	risquassiez /ʁis.ka.sje/	risquassent /ʁis.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	risque /ʁisk/	—	risquons /ʁis.kɔ̃/	risquez /ʁis.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

• qui ne risque rien n’a rien
• risque
• risquer sa peau

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• squirre