effaroucher
French
Etymology
From é- + farouche + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.fa.ʁu.ʃe/
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Verb
effaroucher
- (transitive) to scare off, frighten away (an animal)
- (transitive, figuratively) to frighten, alarm (someone)
- (transitive) to shock
Conjugation
Conjugation of effaroucher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | effaroucher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | effarouchant /e.fa.ʁu.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | effarouché /e.fa.ʁu.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | effarouche /e.fa.ʁuʃ/ | effarouches /e.fa.ʁuʃ/ | effarouche /e.fa.ʁuʃ/ | effarouchons /e.fa.ʁu.ʃɔ̃/ | effarouchez /e.fa.ʁu.ʃe/ | effarouchent /e.fa.ʁuʃ/ |
| imperfect | effarouchais /e.fa.ʁu.ʃɛ/ | effarouchais /e.fa.ʁu.ʃɛ/ | effarouchait /e.fa.ʁu.ʃɛ/ | effarouchions /e.fa.ʁu.ʃjɔ̃/ | effarouchiez /e.fa.ʁu.ʃje/ | effarouchaient /e.fa.ʁu.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | effarouchai /e.fa.ʁu.ʃe/ | effarouchas /e.fa.ʁu.ʃa/ | effaroucha /e.fa.ʁu.ʃa/ | effarouchâmes /e.fa.ʁu.ʃam/ | effarouchâtes /e.fa.ʁu.ʃat/ | effarouchèrent /e.fa.ʁu.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | effaroucherai /e.fa.ʁuʃ.ʁe/ | effaroucheras /e.fa.ʁuʃ.ʁa/ | effarouchera /e.fa.ʁuʃ.ʁa/ | effaroucherons /e.fa.ʁuʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | effaroucherez /e.fa.ʁuʃ.ʁe/ | effaroucheront /e.fa.ʁuʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | effaroucherais /e.fa.ʁuʃ.ʁɛ/ | effaroucherais /e.fa.ʁuʃ.ʁɛ/ | effaroucherait /e.fa.ʁuʃ.ʁɛ/ | effaroucherions /e.fa.ʁu.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ | effaroucheriez /e.fa.ʁu.ʃə.ʁje/ | effaroucheraient /e.fa.ʁuʃ.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 | effarouche /e.fa.ʁuʃ/ | effarouches /e.fa.ʁuʃ/ | effarouche /e.fa.ʁuʃ/ | effarouchions /e.fa.ʁu.ʃjɔ̃/ | effarouchiez /e.fa.ʁu.ʃje/ | effarouchent /e.fa.ʁuʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | effarouchasse /e.fa.ʁu.ʃas/ | effarouchasses /e.fa.ʁu.ʃas/ | effarouchât /e.fa.ʁu.ʃa/ | effarouchassions /e.fa.ʁu.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ | effarouchassiez /e.fa.ʁu.ʃa.sje/ | effarouchassent /e.fa.ʁu.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | effarouche /e.fa.ʁuʃ/ | — | effarouchons /e.fa.ʁu.ʃɔ̃/ | effarouchez /e.fa.ʁu.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “effaroucher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.