pasticher

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

pasticher

1. to imitate, pastiche

Conjugation

Conjugation of pasticher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pasticher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pastichant /pas.ti.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pastiché /pas.ti.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pastiche /pas.tiʃ/	pastiches /pas.tiʃ/	pastiche /pas.tiʃ/	pastichons /pas.ti.ʃɔ̃/	pastichez /pas.ti.ʃe/	pastichent /pas.tiʃ/
	imperfect	pastichais /pas.ti.ʃɛ/	pastichais /pas.ti.ʃɛ/	pastichait /pas.ti.ʃɛ/	pastichions /pas.ti.ʃjɔ̃/	pastichiez /pas.ti.ʃje/	pastichaient /pas.ti.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	pastichai /pas.ti.ʃe/	pastichas /pas.ti.ʃa/	pasticha /pas.ti.ʃa/	pastichâmes /pas.ti.ʃam/	pastichâtes /pas.ti.ʃat/	pastichèrent /pas.ti.ʃɛʁ/
	future	pasticherai /pas.tiʃ.ʁe/	pasticheras /pas.tiʃ.ʁa/	pastichera /pas.tiʃ.ʁa/	pasticherons /pas.tiʃ.ʁɔ̃/	pasticherez /pas.tiʃ.ʁe/	pasticheront /pas.tiʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pasticherais /pas.tiʃ.ʁɛ/	pasticherais /pas.tiʃ.ʁɛ/	pasticherait /pas.tiʃ.ʁɛ/	pasticherions /pas.ti.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	pasticheriez /pas.ti.ʃə.ʁje/	pasticheraient /pas.tiʃ.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	pastiche /pas.tiʃ/	pastiches /pas.tiʃ/	pastiche /pas.tiʃ/	pastichions /pas.ti.ʃjɔ̃/	pastichiez /pas.ti.ʃje/	pastichent /pas.tiʃ/
	imperfect2	pastichasse /pas.ti.ʃas/	pastichasses /pas.ti.ʃas/	pastichât /pas.ti.ʃa/	pastichassions /pas.ti.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	pastichassiez /pas.ti.ʃa.sje/	pastichassent /pas.ti.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pastiche /pas.tiʃ/	—	pastichons /pas.ti.ʃɔ̃/	pastichez /pas.ti.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

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