escarmoucher

French

Etymology

From escarmouche.

Pronunciation

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Verb

escarmoucher

1. to skirmish

Conjugation

Conjugation of escarmoucher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	escarmoucher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	escarmouchant /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		escarmouché /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	escarmouche /ɛs.kaʁ.muʃ/	escarmouches /ɛs.kaʁ.muʃ/	escarmouche /ɛs.kaʁ.muʃ/	escarmouchons /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃɔ̃/	escarmouchez /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃe/	escarmouchent /ɛs.kaʁ.muʃ/
	imperfect	escarmouchais /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃɛ/	escarmouchais /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃɛ/	escarmouchait /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃɛ/	escarmouchions /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃjɔ̃/	escarmouchiez /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃje/	escarmouchaient /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	escarmouchai /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃe/	escarmouchas /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃa/	escarmoucha /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃa/	escarmouchâmes /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃam/	escarmouchâtes /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃat/	escarmouchèrent /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃɛʁ/
	future	escarmoucherai /ɛs.kaʁ.muʃ.ʁe/	escarmoucheras /ɛs.kaʁ.muʃ.ʁa/	escarmouchera /ɛs.kaʁ.muʃ.ʁa/	escarmoucherons /ɛs.kaʁ.muʃ.ʁɔ̃/	escarmoucherez /ɛs.kaʁ.muʃ.ʁe/	escarmoucheront /ɛs.kaʁ.muʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	escarmoucherais /ɛs.kaʁ.muʃ.ʁɛ/	escarmoucherais /ɛs.kaʁ.muʃ.ʁɛ/	escarmoucherait /ɛs.kaʁ.muʃ.ʁɛ/	escarmoucherions /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	escarmoucheriez /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃə.ʁje/	escarmoucheraient /ɛs.kaʁ.muʃ.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	escarmouche /ɛs.kaʁ.muʃ/	escarmouches /ɛs.kaʁ.muʃ/	escarmouche /ɛs.kaʁ.muʃ/	escarmouchions /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃjɔ̃/	escarmouchiez /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃje/	escarmouchent /ɛs.kaʁ.muʃ/
	imperfect2	escarmouchasse /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃas/	escarmouchasses /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃas/	escarmouchât /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃa/	escarmouchassions /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	escarmouchassiez /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃa.sje/	escarmouchassent /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	escarmouche /ɛs.kaʁ.muʃ/	—	escarmouchons /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.ʃɔ̃/	escarmouchez /ɛs.kaʁ.mu.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: 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

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