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mâcher
mâcher
French
Verb
mâcher
- to chew
- (informal) to begin or prepare some work
- Je t'ai mâché le travail, tu n'as plus qu'à le terminer.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of mâcher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | mâcher | avoir mâché | |||||
| gerund | en mâchant | en ayant mâché | |||||
| present participle | mâchant /mɑ.ʃɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | mâché /mɑ.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 | mâche /mɑʃ/ |
mâches /mɑʃ/ |
mâche /mɑʃ/ |
mâchons /mɑ.ʃɔ̃/ |
mâchez /mɑ.ʃe/ |
mâchent /mɑʃ/ |
| imperfect | mâchais /mɑ.ʃɛ/ |
mâchais /mɑ.ʃɛ/ |
mâchait /mɑ.ʃɛ/ |
mâchions /mɑ.ʃjɔ̃/ |
mâchiez /mɑ.ʃje/ |
mâchaient /mɑ.ʃɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | mâchai /mɑ.ʃe/ |
mâchas /mɑ.ʃa/ |
mâcha /mɑ.ʃa/ |
mâchâmes /mɑ.ʃam/ |
mâchâtes /mɑ.ʃat/ |
mâchèrent /mɑ.ʃɛʁ/ |
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| future | mâcherai /mɑʃ.ʁe/ |
mâcheras /mɑʃ.ʁa/ |
mâchera /mɑʃ.ʁa/ |
mâcherons /mɑʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
mâcherez /mɑʃ.ʁe/ |
mâcheront /mɑʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | mâcherais /mɑʃ.ʁɛ/ |
mâcherais /mɑʃ.ʁɛ/ |
mâcherait /mɑʃ.ʁɛ/ |
mâcherions /mɑ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
mâcheriez /mɑ.ʃə.ʁje/ |
mâcheraient /mɑʃ.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 | mâche /mɑʃ/ |
mâches /mɑʃ/ |
mâche /mɑʃ/ |
mâchions /mɑ.ʃjɔ̃/ |
mâchiez /mɑ.ʃje/ |
mâchent /mɑʃ/ |
| imperfect1 |
mâchasse /mɑ.ʃas/ |
mâchasses /mɑ.ʃas/ |
mâchât /mɑ.ʃa/ |
mâchassions /mɑ.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
mâchassiez /mɑ.ʃa.sje/ |
mâchassent /mɑ.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 | – | |
| — | mâche /mɑʃ/ |
— | mâchons /mɑ.ʃɔ̃/ |
mâchez /mɑ.ʃe/ |
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