féticher

French

Etymology

From fétiche +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe.ti.ʃe/

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Verb

féticher

1. (Africa) to enchant by magic; to cast a spell

   Synonyms: envouter, marabouter

   Tu pars chez une personne qui sait «féticher» l’éléphant.

   You're going to visit someone who can "enchant" an elephant.

2. (religion) to practice fetishism

   Tu sais, il y a des musulmans qui ne fétichent pas, et des chrétiens qui fétichent. La religion n’est pas l’essentiel.

   You know, there are Muslims who do not practice fetishism and Christians who do. The religion is not the important thing.

Conjugation

Conjugation of féticher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	féticher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	fétichant /fe.ti.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		fétiché /fe.ti.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	fétiche /fe.tiʃ/	fétiches /fe.tiʃ/	fétiche /fe.tiʃ/	fétichons /fe.ti.ʃɔ̃/	fétichez /fe.ti.ʃe/	fétichent /fe.tiʃ/
	imperfect	fétichais /fe.ti.ʃɛ/	fétichais /fe.ti.ʃɛ/	fétichait /fe.ti.ʃɛ/	fétichions /fe.ti.ʃjɔ̃/	fétichiez /fe.ti.ʃje/	fétichaient /fe.ti.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	fétichai /fe.ti.ʃe/	fétichas /fe.ti.ʃa/	féticha /fe.ti.ʃa/	fétichâmes /fe.ti.ʃam/	fétichâtes /fe.ti.ʃat/	fétichèrent /fe.ti.ʃɛʁ/
	future	féticherai /fe.tiʃ.ʁe/	féticheras /fe.tiʃ.ʁa/	fétichera /fe.tiʃ.ʁa/	féticherons /fe.tiʃ.ʁɔ̃/	féticherez /fe.tiʃ.ʁe/	féticheront /fe.tiʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	féticherais /fe.tiʃ.ʁɛ/	féticherais /fe.tiʃ.ʁɛ/	féticherait /fe.tiʃ.ʁɛ/	féticherions /fe.ti.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	féticheriez /fe.ti.ʃə.ʁje/	féticheraient /fe.tiʃ.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	fétiche /fe.tiʃ/	fétiches /fe.tiʃ/	fétiche /fe.tiʃ/	fétichions /fe.ti.ʃjɔ̃/	fétichiez /fe.ti.ʃje/	fétichent /fe.tiʃ/
	imperfect2	fétichasse /fe.ti.ʃas/	fétichasses /fe.ti.ʃas/	fétichât /fe.ti.ʃa/	fétichassions /fe.ti.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	fétichassiez /fe.ti.ʃa.sje/	fétichassent /fe.ti.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	fétiche /fe.tiʃ/	—	fétichons /fe.ti.ʃɔ̃/	fétichez /fe.ti.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

• féticheur