marcher
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- (UK) IPA: /ˈmɑːtʃə/, X-SAMPA: /"mA:tS@/
- (US) /ˈmɑrtʃɚ/, X-SAMPA: /"mArtS@`/
- Hyphenation: march‧er
- Rhymes: -ɑː(r)tʃə(r)
Etymology 1 [edit]
(Can we verify(+) this etymology?) Middle English marche; from Anglo-Norman and Old French; from Old English germearc; Gothic marka (“boundary”)
Noun [edit]
marcher (plural marchers)
- An inhabitant of a march (border country)
- A person who holds lands in such a region
Derived terms [edit]
Etymology 2 [edit]
Noun [edit]
marcher (plural marchers)
- One who marches in a march in the political sense.
Derived terms [edit]
Anagrams [edit]
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Middle French, from Old French marchier, from Frankish *markōn
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
marcher
- to walk
- Il marche au milieu de la rue. — He is walking in the middle of the street
- to work, to function
- Cet ordinateur ne marche pas. — This computer does not work.
- to agree
- Ça marche. — I agree.
- to believe
- Il marche. — He believes my joke.
- Il m'a fait marcher. — He made me believe his joke.
Conjugation [edit]
Conjugation of marcher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | marcher | avoir marché | |||||
| gerund | en marchant | en ayant marché | |||||
| present participle | marchant | ||||||
| past participle | marché | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | marche | marches | marche | marchons | marchez | marchent |
| imperfect | marchais | marchais | marchait | marchions | marchiez | marchaient | |
| past historic1 | marchai | marchas | marcha | marchâmes | marchâtes | marchèrent | |
| future | marcherai | marcheras | marchera | marcherons | marcherez | marcheront | |
| conditional | marcherais | marcherais | marcherait | marcherions | marcheriez | marcheraient | |
| 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 | marche | marches | marche | marchions | marchiez | marchent |
| imperfect1 | marchasse | marchasses | marchât | marchassions | marchassiez | marchassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | marche | — | marchons | marchez | — | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Synonyms [edit]
- (walk): aller
- (function): fonctionner
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- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms derived from Anglo-Norman
- English terms derived from Old French
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms derived from Gothic
- English nouns
- English agent nouns
- English words suffixed with -er
- French terms derived from Middle French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms derived from Frankish
- French verbs
- French first group verbs
