gauchir
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French gauchir, from Old French gauchir, gauchier, from Frankish *wenkijan and *walkijan, *walkan. By surface analysis, gauche + -ir.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
gauchir
- (intransitive) to dodge
- (intransitive) to speak or act deceptively
- (transitive, intransitive) to warp, buckle, distort, bend
- (transitive) to flavour with left-oriented political views
Conjugation edit
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of gauchir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | gauchir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | gauchissant /ɡo.ʃi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | gauchi /ɡo.ʃi/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | gauchis /ɡo.ʃi/ |
gauchis /ɡo.ʃi/ |
gauchit /ɡo.ʃi/ |
gauchissons /ɡo.ʃi.sɔ̃/ |
gauchissez /ɡo.ʃi.se/ |
gauchissent /ɡo.ʃis/ |
| imperfect | gauchissais /ɡo.ʃi.sɛ/ |
gauchissais /ɡo.ʃi.sɛ/ |
gauchissait /ɡo.ʃi.sɛ/ |
gauchissions /ɡo.ʃi.sjɔ̃/ |
gauchissiez /ɡo.ʃi.sje/ |
gauchissaient /ɡo.ʃi.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | gauchis /ɡo.ʃi/ |
gauchis /ɡo.ʃi/ |
gauchit /ɡo.ʃi/ |
gauchîmes /ɡo.ʃim/ |
gauchîtes /ɡo.ʃit/ |
gauchirent /ɡo.ʃiʁ/ | |
| future | gauchirai /ɡo.ʃi.ʁe/ |
gauchiras /ɡo.ʃi.ʁa/ |
gauchira /ɡo.ʃi.ʁa/ |
gauchirons /ɡo.ʃi.ʁɔ̃/ |
gauchirez /ɡo.ʃi.ʁe/ |
gauchiront /ɡo.ʃi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | gauchirais /ɡo.ʃi.ʁɛ/ |
gauchirais /ɡo.ʃi.ʁɛ/ |
gauchirait /ɡo.ʃi.ʁɛ/ |
gauchirions /ɡo.ʃi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
gauchiriez /ɡo.ʃi.ʁje/ |
gauchiraient /ɡo.ʃi.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 | gauchisse /ɡo.ʃis/ |
gauchisses /ɡo.ʃis/ |
gauchisse /ɡo.ʃis/ |
gauchissions /ɡo.ʃi.sjɔ̃/ |
gauchissiez /ɡo.ʃi.sje/ |
gauchissent /ɡo.ʃis/ |
| imperfect2 | gauchisse /ɡo.ʃis/ |
gauchisses /ɡo.ʃis/ |
gauchît /ɡo.ʃi/ |
gauchissions /ɡo.ʃi.sjɔ̃/ |
gauchissiez /ɡo.ʃi.sje/ |
gauchissent /ɡo.ʃis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | gauchis /ɡo.ʃi/ |
— | gauchissons /ɡo.ʃi.sɔ̃/ |
gauchissez /ɡo.ʃi.se/ |
— | |
| 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
- “gauchir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.