charcuter
French
Etymology
Back formation from charcutier (“butcher”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʃaʁ.ky.te/
Audio (file)
Verb
charcuter
- to chop or cut badly
Conjugation
Conjugation of charcuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | charcuter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | charcutant /ʃaʁ.ky.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | charcuté /ʃaʁ.ky.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | charcute /ʃaʁ.kyt/ | charcutes /ʃaʁ.kyt/ | charcute /ʃaʁ.kyt/ | charcutons /ʃaʁ.ky.tɔ̃/ | charcutez /ʃaʁ.ky.te/ | charcutent /ʃaʁ.kyt/ |
| imperfect | charcutais /ʃaʁ.ky.tɛ/ | charcutais /ʃaʁ.ky.tɛ/ | charcutait /ʃaʁ.ky.tɛ/ | charcutions /ʃaʁ.ky.tjɔ̃/ | charcutiez /ʃaʁ.ky.tje/ | charcutaient /ʃaʁ.ky.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | charcutai /ʃaʁ.ky.te/ | charcutas /ʃaʁ.ky.ta/ | charcuta /ʃaʁ.ky.ta/ | charcutâmes /ʃaʁ.ky.tam/ | charcutâtes /ʃaʁ.ky.tat/ | charcutèrent /ʃaʁ.ky.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | charcuterai /ʃaʁ.ky.tʁe/ | charcuteras /ʃaʁ.ky.tʁa/ | charcutera /ʃaʁ.ky.tʁa/ | charcuterons /ʃaʁ.ky.tʁɔ̃/ | charcuterez /ʃaʁ.ky.tʁe/ | charcuteront /ʃaʁ.ky.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | charcuterais /ʃaʁ.ky.tʁɛ/ | charcuterais /ʃaʁ.ky.tʁɛ/ | charcuterait /ʃaʁ.ky.tʁɛ/ | charcuterions /ʃaʁ.ky.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | charcuteriez /ʃaʁ.ky.tə.ʁje/ | charcuteraient /ʃaʁ.ky.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | charcute /ʃaʁ.kyt/ | charcutes /ʃaʁ.kyt/ | charcute /ʃaʁ.kyt/ | charcutions /ʃaʁ.ky.tjɔ̃/ | charcutiez /ʃaʁ.ky.tje/ | charcutent /ʃaʁ.kyt/ |
| imperfect2 | charcutasse /ʃaʁ.ky.tas/ | charcutasses /ʃaʁ.ky.tas/ | charcutât /ʃaʁ.ky.ta/ | charcutassions /ʃaʁ.ky.ta.sjɔ̃/ | charcutassiez /ʃaʁ.ky.ta.sje/ | charcutassent /ʃaʁ.ky.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | charcute /ʃaʁ.kyt/ | — | charcutons /ʃaʁ.ky.tɔ̃/ | charcutez /ʃaʁ.ky.te/ | — | |
| 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
- “charcuter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.