plancher
English
Etymology
French planche.
Noun
plancher (plural planchers)
- A floor made of wood.
- A plank.
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:
- Elm; [used] some for planchers
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- (architecture) The underside of a cornice; a soffit.
Verb
plancher (third-person singular simple present planchers, present participle planchering, simple past and past participle planchered)
- (obsolete, transitive) To form using planks.
- 1586, Conrad Heresbach, Foure Bookes of Husbandrie:
- your stable be well paved with rounde stone, wel planchered and kept clean
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References
- plancher in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plɑ̃.ʃe/
audio (le plancher) (file)
Etymology 1
From planche.
Noun
plancher m (plural planchers)
- floor
- lower limit
- (anatomy) floor
Derived terms
- débarrasser le plancher
- mettre le pied au plancher
- pied au plancher
- plancher des vaches
Etymology 2
From planche.
Verb
plancher
- (intransitive) to study something thoroughly, to work hard on something, to brainstorm
- J'ai planché sur le sujet.
- I have made extensive research on the topic.
Conjugation
Conjugation of plancher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | plancher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | planchant /plɑ̃.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | planché /plɑ̃.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | planche /plɑ̃ʃ/ | planches /plɑ̃ʃ/ | planche /plɑ̃ʃ/ | planchons /plɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/ | planchez /plɑ̃.ʃe/ | planchent /plɑ̃ʃ/ |
| imperfect | planchais /plɑ̃.ʃɛ/ | planchais /plɑ̃.ʃɛ/ | planchait /plɑ̃.ʃɛ/ | planchions /plɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/ | planchiez /plɑ̃.ʃje/ | planchaient /plɑ̃.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | planchai /plɑ̃.ʃe/ | planchas /plɑ̃.ʃa/ | plancha /plɑ̃.ʃa/ | planchâmes /plɑ̃.ʃam/ | planchâtes /plɑ̃.ʃat/ | planchèrent /plɑ̃.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | plancherai /plɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/ | plancheras /plɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/ | planchera /plɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/ | plancherons /plɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | plancherez /plɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/ | plancheront /plɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | plancherais /plɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/ | plancherais /plɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/ | plancherait /plɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/ | plancherions /plɑ̃.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ | plancheriez /plɑ̃.ʃə.ʁje/ | plancheraient /plɑ̃ʃ.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 | planche /plɑ̃ʃ/ | planches /plɑ̃ʃ/ | planche /plɑ̃ʃ/ | planchions /plɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/ | planchiez /plɑ̃.ʃje/ | planchent /plɑ̃ʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | planchasse /plɑ̃.ʃas/ | planchasses /plɑ̃.ʃas/ | planchât /plɑ̃.ʃa/ | planchassions /plɑ̃.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ | planchassiez /plɑ̃.ʃa.sje/ | planchassent /plɑ̃.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | planche /plɑ̃ʃ/ | — | planchons /plɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/ | planchez /plɑ̃.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
- “plancher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.