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Percher
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percher
percher
English
Noun
percher (plural perchers)
- One who fishes for perch.
Etymology 2
From perch (verb).
Noun
percher (plural perchers)
- One that perches.
Etymology 3
From perch (“a device over which cloth is suspended for inspection”).
Noun
percher (plural perchers)
- (textiles) An inspector of cloth before finishing.
French
Pronunciation
Verb
percher
- to perch
Conjugation
Conjugation of percher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | percher | avoir perché | |||||
| gerund | en perchant | en ayant perché | |||||
| present participle | perchant /pɛʁ.ʃɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | perché /pɛʁ.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 | perche /pɛʁʃ/ |
perches /pɛʁʃ/ |
perche /pɛʁʃ/ |
perchons /pɛʁ.ʃɔ̃/ |
perchez /pɛʁ.ʃe/ |
perchent /pɛʁʃ/ |
| imperfect | perchais /pɛʁ.ʃɛ/ |
perchais /pɛʁ.ʃɛ/ |
perchait /pɛʁ.ʃɛ/ |
perchions /pɛʁ.ʃjɔ̃/ |
perchiez /pɛʁ.ʃje/ |
perchaient /pɛʁ.ʃɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | perchai /pɛʁ.ʃe/ |
perchas /pɛʁ.ʃa/ |
percha /pɛʁ.ʃa/ |
perchâmes /pɛʁ.ʃam/ |
perchâtes /pɛʁ.ʃat/ |
perchèrent /pɛʁ.ʃɛʁ/ |
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| future | percherai /pɛʁ.ʃə.ʁe/ |
percheras /pɛʁ.ʃə.ʁa/ |
perchera /pɛʁ.ʃə.ʁa/ |
percherons /pɛʁ.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/ |
percherez /pɛʁ.ʃə.ʁe/ |
percheront /pɛʁ.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | percherais /pɛʁ.ʃə.ʁɛ/ |
percherais /pɛʁ.ʃə.ʁɛ/ |
percherait /pɛʁ.ʃə.ʁɛ/ |
percherions /pɛʁ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
percheriez /pɛʁ.ʃə.ʁje/ |
percheraient /pɛʁ.ʃə.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 | perche /pɛʁʃ/ |
perches /pɛʁʃ/ |
perche /pɛʁʃ/ |
perchions /pɛʁ.ʃjɔ̃/ |
perchiez /pɛʁ.ʃje/ |
perchent /pɛʁʃ/ |
| imperfect1 |
perchasse /pɛʁ.ʃas/ |
perchasses /pɛʁ.ʃas/ |
perchât /pɛʁ.ʃa/ |
perchassions /pɛʁ.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
perchassiez /pɛʁ.ʃa.sje/ |
perchassent /pɛʁ.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 | – | |
| — | perche /pɛʁʃ/ |
— | perchons /pɛʁ.ʃɔ̃/ |
perchez /pɛʁ.ʃe/ |
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