luncher

English

Etymology

lunch +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌntʃə(ɹ)

Noun

luncher (plural lunchers)

1. Someone who lunches; someone who eats lunch.
   • 2014, John Howard Reid, Merryll Manning: A Brush with Death, page 80:

     Late lunchers had the pick of the menu.

2. One who treats another person to lunch.

   Coordinate term: lunchee

   • 2008, Stephen Bayley, Roger Mavity, Life's a Pitch: How to Sell Yourself and Your Brilliant Ideas, page 213:

     If the luncher, choose venue carefully, reconnoitre loos. If lunchee, be prompt, but not early.

Alternative forms

• lunchor

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

luncher

1. to lunch

Conjugation

Conjugation of luncher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	luncher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	lunchant /lœ̃.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		lunché /lœ̃.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	lunche /lœ̃ʃ/	lunches /lœ̃ʃ/	lunche /lœ̃ʃ/	lunchons /lœ̃.ʃɔ̃/	lunchez /lœ̃.ʃe/	lunchent /lœ̃ʃ/
	imperfect	lunchais /lœ̃.ʃɛ/	lunchais /lœ̃.ʃɛ/	lunchait /lœ̃.ʃɛ/	lunchions /lœ̃.ʃjɔ̃/	lunchiez /lœ̃.ʃje/	lunchaient /lœ̃.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	lunchai /lœ̃.ʃe/	lunchas /lœ̃.ʃa/	luncha /lœ̃.ʃa/	lunchâmes /lœ̃.ʃam/	lunchâtes /lœ̃.ʃat/	lunchèrent /lœ̃.ʃɛʁ/
	future	luncherai /lœ̃ʃ.ʁe/	luncheras /lœ̃ʃ.ʁa/	lunchera /lœ̃ʃ.ʁa/	luncherons /lœ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/	luncherez /lœ̃ʃ.ʁe/	luncheront /lœ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	luncherais /lœ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	luncherais /lœ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	luncherait /lœ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	luncherions /lœ̃.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	luncheriez /lœ̃.ʃə.ʁje/	luncheraient /lœ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/
(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	lunche /lœ̃ʃ/	lunches /lœ̃ʃ/	lunche /lœ̃ʃ/	lunchions /lœ̃.ʃjɔ̃/	lunchiez /lœ̃.ʃje/	lunchent /lœ̃ʃ/
	imperfect2	lunchasse /lœ̃.ʃas/	lunchasses /lœ̃.ʃas/	lunchât /lœ̃.ʃa/	lunchassions /lœ̃.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	lunchassiez /lœ̃.ʃa.sje/	lunchassent /lœ̃.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	lunche /lœ̃ʃ/	—	lunchons /lœ̃.ʃɔ̃/	lunchez /lœ̃.ʃe/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “luncher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Swedish

Noun

luncher

1. indefinite plural of lunch