déchoir

See also: de chóir

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin or Late Latin dēcadēre, from Latin de- and cadere (“to fall”) (whence also choir). See also the Classical Latin form decidō, decidere. Compare Catalan decaure, Italian decadere, Portuguese decair, Spanish decaer and English decay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.ʃwaʁ/
• Rhymes: -waʁ

Verb

déchoir

1. (literary) to wane (diminish)
2. (literary) to strip

   déchoir un homme de son titre - to strip a man of his title

Conjugation

This verb is defective in that it is not conjugated in certain tenses. It has no indicative imperfect form, no imperative form and no present participle. This verb is impersonal and is conjugated only in the third-person singular.

Conjugation of déchoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	déchoir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	—
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		déchu /de.ʃy/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	—	—	déchoit or déchet /de.ʃwa/ or /de.ʃɛ/	—	—	—
	imperfect	—	—	—	—	—	—
	past historic2	—	—	déchut /de.ʃy/	—	—	—
	future	—	—	déchoira or décherra /de.ʃwa.ʁa/ or /de.ʃɛ.ʁa/ or /de.ʃe.ʁa/	—	—	—
	conditional	—	—	déchoirait or décherrait /de.ʃwa.ʁɛ/ or /de.ʃɛ.ʁɛ/ or /de.ʃe.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	—	—	déchoie /de.ʃwa/	—	—	—
	imperfect2	—	—	déchût /de.ʃy/	—	—	—
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	—	—	—	—	—
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

• déchéance
• déchet
• déchu

Related terms

• choir

Further reading

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