allécher

French

Etymology

From Old French alechier, probably from a Vulgar Latin root *allecticāre, from Latin allectāre, present active infinitive of allectō.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /a.le.ʃe/
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Verb

allécher

to attract, appeal, allure, tempt; entice, draw in

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’), with the latter being used before mute ‘e’. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written allécher-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written allècher-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.

Conjugation of allécher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive
present participle		alléchant /a.le.ʃɑ̃/
past participle		alléché /a.le.ʃe/
simple		allécher
compound		avoir + past participle
gerund¹
simple		alléchant /a.le.ʃɑ̃/
compound		ayant + past participle
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	allèche /a.lɛʃ/	allèches /a.lɛʃ/	allèche /a.lɛʃ/	alléchons /a.le.ʃɔ̃/	alléchez /a.le.ʃe/	allèchent /a.lɛʃ/
	imperfect	alléchais /a.le.ʃɛ/	alléchais /a.le.ʃɛ/	alléchait /a.le.ʃɛ/	alléchions /a.le.ʃjɔ̃/	alléchiez /a.le.ʃje/	alléchaient /a.le.ʃɛ/
	past historic²	alléchai /a.le.ʃe/	alléchas /a.le.ʃa/	allécha /a.le.ʃa/	alléchâmes /a.le.ʃam/	alléchâtes /a.le.ʃat/	alléchèrent /a.le.ʃɛʁ/
	future	allècherai or allécherai /a.lɛʃ.ʁe/	allècheras or allécheras /a.lɛʃ.ʁa/	allèchera or alléchera /a.lɛʃ.ʁa/	allècherons or allécherons /a.lɛʃ.ʁɔ̃/	allècherez or allécherez /a.lɛʃ.ʁe/	allècheront or allécheront /a.lɛʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	allècherais or allécherais /a.lɛʃ.ʁɛ/	allècherais or allécherais /a.lɛʃ.ʁɛ/	allècherait or allécherait /a.lɛʃ.ʁɛ/	allècherions or allécherions /a.lɛ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	allècheriez or allécheriez /a.lɛ.ʃə.ʁje/	allècheraient or allécheraient /a.lɛʃ.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	allèche /a.lɛʃ/	allèches /a.lɛʃ/	allèche /a.lɛʃ/	alléchions /a.le.ʃjɔ̃/	alléchiez /a.le.ʃje/	allèchent /a.lɛʃ/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	alléchasse /a.le.ʃas/	alléchasses /a.le.ʃas/	alléchât /a.le.ʃa/	alléchassions /a.le.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	alléchassiez /a.le.ʃa.sje/	alléchassent /a.le.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	allèche /a.lɛʃ/	—	alléchons /a.le.ʃɔ̃/	alléchez /a.le.ʃe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
¹ Only usable with preposition en.
² In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

allèchement