lyncher

English

Etymology

lynch +‎ -er

Noun

lyncher (plural lynchers)

1. One who lynches.
   • 2021, Percival Everett, The Trees, Influx Press (2022), page 237:

     “Less than 1 percent of lynchers were ever convicted of a crime.”

Translations

one who lynches

• Russian: линчева́тель (ru) m (linčevátelʹ), линчева́тельница f (linčevátelʹnica)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɛ̃.ʃe/

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Verb

lyncher

1. to lynch

Conjugation

Conjugation of lyncher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	lyncher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	lynchant /lɛ̃.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		lynché /lɛ̃.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	lynche /lɛ̃ʃ/	lynches /lɛ̃ʃ/	lynche /lɛ̃ʃ/	lynchons /lɛ̃.ʃɔ̃/	lynchez /lɛ̃.ʃe/	lynchent /lɛ̃ʃ/
	imperfect	lynchais /lɛ̃.ʃɛ/	lynchais /lɛ̃.ʃɛ/	lynchait /lɛ̃.ʃɛ/	lynchions /lɛ̃.ʃjɔ̃/	lynchiez /lɛ̃.ʃje/	lynchaient /lɛ̃.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	lynchai /lɛ̃.ʃe/	lynchas /lɛ̃.ʃa/	lyncha /lɛ̃.ʃa/	lynchâmes /lɛ̃.ʃam/	lynchâtes /lɛ̃.ʃat/	lynchèrent /lɛ̃.ʃɛʁ/
	future	lyncherai /lɛ̃ʃ.ʁe/	lyncheras /lɛ̃ʃ.ʁa/	lynchera /lɛ̃ʃ.ʁa/	lyncherons /lɛ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/	lyncherez /lɛ̃ʃ.ʁe/	lyncheront /lɛ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	lyncherais /lɛ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	lyncherais /lɛ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	lyncherait /lɛ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	lyncherions /lɛ̃.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	lyncheriez /lɛ̃.ʃə.ʁje/	lyncheraient /lɛ̃ʃ.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	lynche /lɛ̃ʃ/	lynches /lɛ̃ʃ/	lynche /lɛ̃ʃ/	lynchions /lɛ̃.ʃjɔ̃/	lynchiez /lɛ̃.ʃje/	lynchent /lɛ̃ʃ/
	imperfect2	lynchasse /lɛ̃.ʃas/	lynchasses /lɛ̃.ʃas/	lynchât /lɛ̃.ʃa/	lynchassions /lɛ̃.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	lynchassiez /lɛ̃.ʃa.sje/	lynchassent /lɛ̃.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	lynche /lɛ̃ʃ/	—	lynchons /lɛ̃.ʃɔ̃/	lynchez /lɛ̃.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

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