charcuter

French

Etymology

Back formation from charcutier (“butcher”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃaʁ.ky.te/

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Verb

charcuter

1. to chop or cut badly

Conjugation

Conjugation of charcuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	charcuter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	charcutant /ʃaʁ.ky.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		charcuté /ʃaʁ.ky.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	charcute /ʃaʁ.kyt/	charcutes /ʃaʁ.kyt/	charcute /ʃaʁ.kyt/	charcutons /ʃaʁ.ky.tɔ̃/	charcutez /ʃaʁ.ky.te/	charcutent /ʃaʁ.kyt/
	imperfect	charcutais /ʃaʁ.ky.tɛ/	charcutais /ʃaʁ.ky.tɛ/	charcutait /ʃaʁ.ky.tɛ/	charcutions /ʃaʁ.ky.tjɔ̃/	charcutiez /ʃaʁ.ky.tje/	charcutaient /ʃaʁ.ky.tɛ/
	past historic2	charcutai /ʃaʁ.ky.te/	charcutas /ʃaʁ.ky.ta/	charcuta /ʃaʁ.ky.ta/	charcutâmes /ʃaʁ.ky.tam/	charcutâtes /ʃaʁ.ky.tat/	charcutèrent /ʃaʁ.ky.tɛʁ/
	future	charcuterai /ʃaʁ.ky.tʁe/	charcuteras /ʃaʁ.ky.tʁa/	charcutera /ʃaʁ.ky.tʁa/	charcuterons /ʃaʁ.ky.tʁɔ̃/	charcuterez /ʃaʁ.ky.tʁe/	charcuteront /ʃaʁ.ky.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	charcuterais /ʃaʁ.ky.tʁɛ/	charcuterais /ʃaʁ.ky.tʁɛ/	charcuterait /ʃaʁ.ky.tʁɛ/	charcuterions /ʃaʁ.ky.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	charcuteriez /ʃaʁ.ky.tə.ʁje/	charcuteraient /ʃaʁ.ky.tʁɛ/
(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	charcute /ʃaʁ.kyt/	charcutes /ʃaʁ.kyt/	charcute /ʃaʁ.kyt/	charcutions /ʃaʁ.ky.tjɔ̃/	charcutiez /ʃaʁ.ky.tje/	charcutent /ʃaʁ.kyt/
	imperfect2	charcutasse /ʃaʁ.ky.tas/	charcutasses /ʃaʁ.ky.tas/	charcutât /ʃaʁ.ky.ta/	charcutassions /ʃaʁ.ky.ta.sjɔ̃/	charcutassiez /ʃaʁ.ky.ta.sje/	charcutassent /ʃaʁ.ky.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	charcute /ʃaʁ.kyt/	—	charcutons /ʃaʁ.ky.tɔ̃/	charcutez /ʃaʁ.ky.te/	—
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

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