gauchir

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French gauchir, from Old French gauchir, gauchier, from Frankish *wenkijan and *walkijan, *walkan. By surface analysis, gauche +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡo.ʃiʁ/

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Verb

gauchir

1. (intransitive) to dodge
2. (intransitive) to speak or act deceptively
3. (transitive, intransitive) to warp, buckle, distort, bend
4. (transitive) to flavour with left-oriented political views

Conjugation

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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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

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