gâcher

See also: gacher

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French gascher (“to waste, row”), from Old French gaschier, gacher, gasser (“to soil, spoil, waste”) and gaschier, guaschier, waschier (“to wash, soak”), both from Frankish *waskan, *wascōn (“to wash, bathe”), from Proto-Germanic *waskaną (“to wash”), from Proto-Indo-European *wod- (“wet”). Compare related Italian guazzare (“to splash, wallow”), from the same Germanic root. Cognate with Old English wasċan (“to wash”). More at wash.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.ʃe/, /ɡɑ.ʃe/

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Verb

gâcher

1. to ruin, spoil, mar, wreck, waste
2. to mess up, botch, bungle

Conjugation

Conjugation of gâcher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	gâcher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	gâchant /ɡa.ʃɑ̃/ or /ɡɑ.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		gâché /ɡa.ʃe/ or /ɡɑ.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	gâche /ɡaʃ/ or /ɡɑʃ/	gâches /ɡaʃ/ or /ɡɑʃ/	gâche /ɡaʃ/ or /ɡɑʃ/	gâchons /ɡa.ʃɔ̃/ or /ɡɑ.ʃɔ̃/	gâchez /ɡa.ʃe/ or /ɡɑ.ʃe/	gâchent /ɡaʃ/ or /ɡɑʃ/
	imperfect	gâchais /ɡa.ʃɛ/ or /ɡɑ.ʃɛ/	gâchais /ɡa.ʃɛ/ or /ɡɑ.ʃɛ/	gâchait /ɡa.ʃɛ/ or /ɡɑ.ʃɛ/	gâchions /ɡa.ʃjɔ̃/ or /ɡɑ.ʃjɔ̃/	gâchiez /ɡa.ʃje/ or /ɡɑ.ʃje/	gâchaient /ɡa.ʃɛ/ or /ɡɑ.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	gâchai /ɡa.ʃe/ or /ɡɑ.ʃe/	gâchas /ɡa.ʃa/ or /ɡɑ.ʃa/	gâcha /ɡa.ʃa/ or /ɡɑ.ʃa/	gâchâmes /ɡa.ʃam/ or /ɡɑ.ʃam/	gâchâtes /ɡa.ʃat/ or /ɡɑ.ʃat/	gâchèrent /ɡa.ʃɛʁ/ or /ɡɑ.ʃɛʁ/
	future	gâcherai /ɡaʃ.ʁe/ or /ɡɑʃ.ʁe/	gâcheras /ɡaʃ.ʁa/ or /ɡɑʃ.ʁa/	gâchera /ɡaʃ.ʁa/ or /ɡɑʃ.ʁa/	gâcherons /ɡaʃ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ɡɑʃ.ʁɔ̃/	gâcherez /ɡaʃ.ʁe/ or /ɡɑʃ.ʁe/	gâcheront /ɡaʃ.ʁɔ̃/ or /ɡɑʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	gâcherais /ɡaʃ.ʁɛ/ or /ɡɑʃ.ʁɛ/	gâcherais /ɡaʃ.ʁɛ/ or /ɡɑʃ.ʁɛ/	gâcherait /ɡaʃ.ʁɛ/ or /ɡɑʃ.ʁɛ/	gâcherions /ɡa.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɡɑ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	gâcheriez /ɡa.ʃə.ʁje/ or /ɡɑ.ʃə.ʁje/	gâcheraient /ɡaʃ.ʁɛ/ or /ɡɑʃ.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	gâche /ɡaʃ/ or /ɡɑʃ/	gâches /ɡaʃ/ or /ɡɑʃ/	gâche /ɡaʃ/ or /ɡɑʃ/	gâchions /ɡa.ʃjɔ̃/ or /ɡɑ.ʃjɔ̃/	gâchiez /ɡa.ʃje/ or /ɡɑ.ʃje/	gâchent /ɡaʃ/ or /ɡɑʃ/
	imperfect2	gâchasse /ɡa.ʃas/ or /ɡɑ.ʃas/	gâchasses /ɡa.ʃas/ or /ɡɑ.ʃas/	gâchât /ɡa.ʃa/ or /ɡɑ.ʃa/	gâchassions /ɡa.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ or /ɡɑ.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	gâchassiez /ɡa.ʃa.sje/ or /ɡɑ.ʃa.sje/	gâchassent /ɡa.ʃas/ or /ɡɑ.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	gâche /ɡaʃ/ or /ɡɑʃ/	—	gâchons /ɡa.ʃɔ̃/ or /ɡɑ.ʃɔ̃/	gâchez /ɡa.ʃe/ or /ɡɑ.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

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

Anagrams

• charge, chargé