impliquez

Impliquez is a French verb form derived from impliquer. Grammatically, it corresponds to the second-person plural present indicative form (vous impliquez) and also serves as the imperative form used to address multiple people or a formal singular addressee. In everyday use, impliquer can mean to involve or to implicate, with the meaning clarified by the context and the accompanying particles or objects.

Etymology and meaning: The verb impliquer comes from the Latin implicare, formed from in- plus plicare, literally meaning to entangle or to fold in. In Modern French, the core sense evolved to cover both “to involve, to engage” (as in involving people or resources in a project) and the sense of “to implicate” someone in a matter, including a crime or a controversy. The noun implication shares these strands of meaning, denoting either involvement or, in a legal or accusatory sense, the suggestion that someone is connected to an event.

Usage notes: Impliquer requires a direct object for the person or thing being involved and a complement (often dans) specifying the domain or activity. The phrase vous impliquez in the present indicative allows statements like vous impliquez les nouvelles parties prenantes dans le projet. In the imperative, Impliquez! can be used to command a group to involve others. Reflexive forms such as s’impliquer describe a person actively engaging themselves in a task or cause.

Examples: Vous impliquez les collèges dans cette initiative. Impliquez les bénéficiaires dans le processus de décision. Il s’est impliqué dans l’enquête dès le départ.