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entacher
entacher
French
Verb
entacher
- to taint
- (figuratively) To blemish; to besmirch; to mar
- Un scrutin entaché d'irrégularités
- A poll marred by irregularities
- Un scrutin entaché d'irrégularités
- (figuratively) To stain/harm someone's reputation
- Il est temps qu'il cesse d'entacher la réputation du Canada.
- It is time he stopped flushing Canada's reputation down the toilet.
- Il est temps qu'il cesse d'entacher la réputation du Canada.
Conjugation
Conjugation of entacher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | entacher | avoir entaché | |||||
| gerund | en entachant | en ayant entaché | |||||
| present participle | entachant /ɑ̃.ta.ʃɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | entaché /ɑ̃.ta.ʃe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | entache /ɑ̃.taʃ/ |
entaches /ɑ̃.taʃ/ |
entache /ɑ̃.taʃ/ |
entachons /ɑ̃.ta.ʃɔ̃/ |
entachez /ɑ̃.ta.ʃe/ |
entachent /ɑ̃.taʃ/ |
| imperfect | entachais /ɑ̃.ta.ʃɛ/ |
entachais /ɑ̃.ta.ʃɛ/ |
entachait /ɑ̃.ta.ʃɛ/ |
entachions /ɑ̃.ta.ʃjɔ̃/ |
entachiez /ɑ̃.ta.ʃje/ |
entachaient /ɑ̃.ta.ʃɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | entachai /ɑ̃.ta.ʃe/ |
entachas /ɑ̃.ta.ʃa/ |
entacha /ɑ̃.ta.ʃa/ |
entachâmes /ɑ̃.ta.ʃam/ |
entachâtes /ɑ̃.ta.ʃat/ |
entachèrent /ɑ̃.ta.ʃɛʁ/ |
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| future | entacherai /ɑ̃.taʃ.ʁe/ |
entacheras /ɑ̃.taʃ.ʁa/ |
entachera /ɑ̃.taʃ.ʁa/ |
entacherons /ɑ̃.taʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
entacherez /ɑ̃.taʃ.ʁe/ |
entacheront /ɑ̃.taʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | entacherais /ɑ̃.taʃ.ʁɛ/ |
entacherais /ɑ̃.taʃ.ʁɛ/ |
entacherait /ɑ̃.taʃ.ʁɛ/ |
entacherions /ɑ̃.ta.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
entacheriez /ɑ̃.ta.ʃə.ʁje/ |
entacheraient /ɑ̃.taʃ.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | entache /ɑ̃.taʃ/ |
entaches /ɑ̃.taʃ/ |
entache /ɑ̃.taʃ/ |
entachions /ɑ̃.ta.ʃjɔ̃/ |
entachiez /ɑ̃.ta.ʃje/ |
entachent /ɑ̃.taʃ/ |
| imperfect1 |
entachasse /ɑ̃.ta.ʃas/ |
entachasses /ɑ̃.ta.ʃas/ |
entachât /ɑ̃.ta.ʃa/ |
entachassions /ɑ̃.ta.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
entachassiez /ɑ̃.ta.ʃa.sje/ |
entachassent /ɑ̃.ta.ʃas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | entache /ɑ̃.taʃ/ |
— | entachons /ɑ̃.ta.ʃɔ̃/ |
entachez /ɑ̃.ta.ʃe/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||