flancher

French

Etymology

Uncertain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flɑ̃.ʃe/

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Verb

flancher

1. to drop out; pussy out; wuss out; chicken out; back down

Conjugation

Conjugation of flancher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	flancher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	flanchant /flɑ̃.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		flanché /flɑ̃.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	flanche /flɑ̃ʃ/	flanches /flɑ̃ʃ/	flanche /flɑ̃ʃ/	flanchons /flɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/	flanchez /flɑ̃.ʃe/	flanchent /flɑ̃ʃ/
	imperfect	flanchais /flɑ̃.ʃɛ/	flanchais /flɑ̃.ʃɛ/	flanchait /flɑ̃.ʃɛ/	flanchions /flɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/	flanchiez /flɑ̃.ʃje/	flanchaient /flɑ̃.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	flanchai /flɑ̃.ʃe/	flanchas /flɑ̃.ʃa/	flancha /flɑ̃.ʃa/	flanchâmes /flɑ̃.ʃam/	flanchâtes /flɑ̃.ʃat/	flanchèrent /flɑ̃.ʃɛʁ/
	future	flancherai /flɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/	flancheras /flɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/	flanchera /flɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/	flancherons /flɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/	flancherez /flɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/	flancheront /flɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	flancherais /flɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	flancherais /flɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	flancherait /flɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	flancherions /flɑ̃.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	flancheriez /flɑ̃.ʃə.ʁje/	flancheraient /flɑ̃ʃ.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	flanche /flɑ̃ʃ/	flanches /flɑ̃ʃ/	flanche /flɑ̃ʃ/	flanchions /flɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/	flanchiez /flɑ̃.ʃje/	flanchent /flɑ̃ʃ/
	imperfect2	flanchasse /flɑ̃.ʃas/	flanchasses /flɑ̃.ʃas/	flanchât /flɑ̃.ʃa/	flanchassions /flɑ̃.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	flanchassiez /flɑ̃.ʃa.sje/	flanchassent /flɑ̃.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	flanche /flɑ̃ʃ/	—	flanchons /flɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/	flanchez /flɑ̃.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

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