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retrancher
retrancher
French
Verb
retrancher
- (transitive) to deduct, take away, cut out (delete)
- (intransitive) to cut down
- retrancher sur l'alcool - cut down [one's] alcohol
- (transitive) to cut off (exclude, from e.g. society)
- (archaic, transitive) to kill, to snuff out, to bump off
- (reflexive) to take shelter
- (reflexive, military) to entrench oneself
Conjugation
Conjugation of retrancher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | retrancher | avoir retranché | |||||
| gerund | en retranchant | en ayant retranché | |||||
| present participle | retranchant /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | retranché /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.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 | retranche /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/ |
retranches /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/ |
retranche /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/ |
retranchons /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/ |
retranchez /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃe/ |
retranchent /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/ |
| imperfect | retranchais /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃɛ/ |
retranchais /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃɛ/ |
retranchait /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃɛ/ |
retranchions /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/ |
retranchiez /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃje/ |
retranchaient /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | retranchai /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃe/ |
retranchas /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃa/ |
retrancha /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃa/ |
retranchâmes /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃam/ |
retranchâtes /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃat/ |
retranchèrent /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃɛʁ/ |
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| future | retrancherai /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/ |
retrancheras /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/ |
retranchera /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/ |
retrancherons /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
retrancherez /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/ |
retrancheront /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | retrancherais /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/ |
retrancherais /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/ |
retrancherait /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/ |
retrancherions /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
retrancheriez /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃə.ʁje/ |
retrancheraient /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.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 | retranche /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/ |
retranches /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/ |
retranche /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/ |
retranchions /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/ |
retranchiez /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃje/ |
retranchent /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/ |
| imperfect1 |
retranchasse /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃas/ |
retranchasses /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃas/ |
retranchât /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃa/ |
retranchassions /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
retranchassiez /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃa.sje/ |
retranchassent /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.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 | – | |
| — | retranche /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/ |
— | retranchons /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/ |
retranchez /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃe/ |
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