retrancher
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃe/
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Verb
retrancher
- (transitive) to deduct, take away, cut out (delete)
- (intransitive) to cut down
- retrancher sur l'alcool - cut down [one's] alcohol
- (transitive) to cut off (exclude, from e.g. society)
- (archaic, transitive) to kill, to snuff out, to bump off
- (reflexive) to take shelter
- (reflexive, military) to entrench oneself
Conjugation
Conjugation of retrancher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | retranchant /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | retranché /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃe/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | retrancher | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | retranchant /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.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 | retranche /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/ |
retranches /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/ |
retranche /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/ |
retranchons /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/ |
retranchez /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃe/ |
retranchent /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/ |
| imperfect | retranchais /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃɛ/ |
retranchais /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃɛ/ |
retranchait /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃɛ/ |
retranchions /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/ |
retranchiez /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃje/ |
retranchaient /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | retranchai /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃe/ |
retranchas /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃa/ |
retrancha /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃa/ |
retranchâmes /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃam/ |
retranchâtes /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃat/ |
retranchèrent /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | retrancherai /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/ |
retrancheras /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/ |
retranchera /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/ |
retrancherons /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
retrancherez /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/ |
retrancheront /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | retrancherais /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/ |
retrancherais /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/ |
retrancherait /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/ |
retrancherions /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
retrancheriez /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃə.ʁje/ |
retrancheraient /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.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 | retranche /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/ |
retranches /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/ |
retranche /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/ |
retranchions /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/ |
retranchiez /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃje/ |
retranchent /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | retranchasse /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃas/ |
retranchasses /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃas/ |
retranchât /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃa/ |
retranchassions /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
retranchassiez /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃa.sje/ |
retranchassent /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | retranche /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/ |
— | retranchons /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/ |
retranchez /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.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
Further reading
- “retrancher” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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