faucher

See also: Faucher

French

Etymology

From Old French from Vulgar Latin *falcāre or *falciāre (compare Italian falciare), from Latin falcem (“sickle, scythe”) (compare faucille), from Proto-Indo-European *dhalk-, *dhalg- (“a cutting tool”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fo.ʃe/

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Verb

faucher

1. to mow, to reap
2. to run over, to knock down

Conjugation

Conjugation of faucher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	faucher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	fauchant /fo.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		fauché /fo.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	fauche /foʃ/	fauches /foʃ/	fauche /foʃ/	fauchons /fo.ʃɔ̃/	fauchez /fo.ʃe/	fauchent /foʃ/
	imperfect	fauchais /fo.ʃɛ/	fauchais /fo.ʃɛ/	fauchait /fo.ʃɛ/	fauchions /fo.ʃjɔ̃/	fauchiez /fo.ʃje/	fauchaient /fo.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	fauchai /fo.ʃe/	fauchas /fo.ʃa/	faucha /fo.ʃa/	fauchâmes /fo.ʃam/	fauchâtes /fo.ʃat/	fauchèrent /fo.ʃɛʁ/
	future	faucherai /foʃ.ʁe/	faucheras /foʃ.ʁa/	fauchera /foʃ.ʁa/	faucherons /foʃ.ʁɔ̃/	faucherez /foʃ.ʁe/	faucheront /foʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	faucherais /foʃ.ʁɛ/	faucherais /foʃ.ʁɛ/	faucherait /foʃ.ʁɛ/	faucherions /fo.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	faucheriez /fo.ʃə.ʁje/	faucheraient /foʃ.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	fauche /foʃ/	fauches /foʃ/	fauche /foʃ/	fauchions /fo.ʃjɔ̃/	fauchiez /fo.ʃje/	fauchent /foʃ/
	imperfect2	fauchasse /fo.ʃas/	fauchasses /fo.ʃas/	fauchât /fo.ʃa/	fauchassions /fo.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	fauchassiez /fo.ʃa.sje/	fauchassent /fo.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	fauche /foʃ/	—	fauchons /fo.ʃɔ̃/	fauchez /fo.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).

Derived terms

• fauché
• Faucheuse

Further reading

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