effaroucher

French

Etymology

From é- +‎ farouche +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.fa.ʁu.ʃe/

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Verb

effaroucher

1. (transitive) to scare off, frighten away (an animal)
2. (transitive, figuratively) to frighten, alarm (someone)
3. (transitive) to shock

Conjugation

Conjugation of effaroucher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	effaroucher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	effarouchant /e.fa.ʁu.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		effarouché /e.fa.ʁu.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	effarouche /e.fa.ʁuʃ/	effarouches /e.fa.ʁuʃ/	effarouche /e.fa.ʁuʃ/	effarouchons /e.fa.ʁu.ʃɔ̃/	effarouchez /e.fa.ʁu.ʃe/	effarouchent /e.fa.ʁuʃ/
	imperfect	effarouchais /e.fa.ʁu.ʃɛ/	effarouchais /e.fa.ʁu.ʃɛ/	effarouchait /e.fa.ʁu.ʃɛ/	effarouchions /e.fa.ʁu.ʃjɔ̃/	effarouchiez /e.fa.ʁu.ʃje/	effarouchaient /e.fa.ʁu.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	effarouchai /e.fa.ʁu.ʃe/	effarouchas /e.fa.ʁu.ʃa/	effaroucha /e.fa.ʁu.ʃa/	effarouchâmes /e.fa.ʁu.ʃam/	effarouchâtes /e.fa.ʁu.ʃat/	effarouchèrent /e.fa.ʁu.ʃɛʁ/
	future	effaroucherai /e.fa.ʁuʃ.ʁe/	effaroucheras /e.fa.ʁuʃ.ʁa/	effarouchera /e.fa.ʁuʃ.ʁa/	effaroucherons /e.fa.ʁuʃ.ʁɔ̃/	effaroucherez /e.fa.ʁuʃ.ʁe/	effaroucheront /e.fa.ʁuʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	effaroucherais /e.fa.ʁuʃ.ʁɛ/	effaroucherais /e.fa.ʁuʃ.ʁɛ/	effaroucherait /e.fa.ʁuʃ.ʁɛ/	effaroucherions /e.fa.ʁu.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	effaroucheriez /e.fa.ʁu.ʃə.ʁje/	effaroucheraient /e.fa.ʁuʃ.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	effarouche /e.fa.ʁuʃ/	effarouches /e.fa.ʁuʃ/	effarouche /e.fa.ʁuʃ/	effarouchions /e.fa.ʁu.ʃjɔ̃/	effarouchiez /e.fa.ʁu.ʃje/	effarouchent /e.fa.ʁuʃ/
	imperfect2	effarouchasse /e.fa.ʁu.ʃas/	effarouchasses /e.fa.ʁu.ʃas/	effarouchât /e.fa.ʁu.ʃa/	effarouchassions /e.fa.ʁu.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	effarouchassiez /e.fa.ʁu.ʃa.sje/	effarouchassent /e.fa.ʁu.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	effarouche /e.fa.ʁuʃ/	—	effarouchons /e.fa.ʁu.ʃɔ̃/	effarouchez /e.fa.ʁu.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

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