dénicher
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
dénicher
- to scare up
- to hunt out, to track down
- (informal) to dig out, to unearth
- Synonyms: dégoter, mettre la main sur
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of dénicher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | dénicher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | dénichant /de.ni.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | déniché /de.ni.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | déniche /de.niʃ/ |
déniches /de.niʃ/ |
déniche /de.niʃ/ |
dénichons /de.ni.ʃɔ̃/ |
dénichez /de.ni.ʃe/ |
dénichent /de.niʃ/ |
| imperfect | dénichais /de.ni.ʃɛ/ |
dénichais /de.ni.ʃɛ/ |
dénichait /de.ni.ʃɛ/ |
dénichions /de.ni.ʃjɔ̃/ |
dénichiez /de.ni.ʃje/ |
dénichaient /de.ni.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | dénichai /de.ni.ʃe/ |
dénichas /de.ni.ʃa/ |
dénicha /de.ni.ʃa/ |
dénichâmes /de.ni.ʃam/ |
dénichâtes /de.ni.ʃat/ |
dénichèrent /de.ni.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | dénicherai /de.niʃ.ʁe/ |
dénicheras /de.niʃ.ʁa/ |
dénichera /de.niʃ.ʁa/ |
dénicherons /de.niʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
dénicherez /de.niʃ.ʁe/ |
dénicheront /de.niʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | dénicherais /de.niʃ.ʁɛ/ |
dénicherais /de.niʃ.ʁɛ/ |
dénicherait /de.niʃ.ʁɛ/ |
dénicherions /de.ni.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
dénicheriez /de.ni.ʃə.ʁje/ |
dénicheraient /de.niʃ.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 | déniche /de.niʃ/ |
déniches /de.niʃ/ |
déniche /de.niʃ/ |
dénichions /de.ni.ʃjɔ̃/ |
dénichiez /de.ni.ʃje/ |
dénichent /de.niʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | dénichasse /de.ni.ʃas/ |
dénichasses /de.ni.ʃas/ |
dénichât /de.ni.ʃa/ |
dénichassions /de.ni.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
dénichassiez /de.ni.ʃa.sje/ |
dénichassent /de.ni.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | déniche /de.niʃ/ |
— | dénichons /de.ni.ʃɔ̃/ |
dénichez /de.ni.ʃe/ |
— | |
| 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 edit
- “dénicher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.