garrocher
French
Etymology
Western dialectal; from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French garochier ‘to fire a projectile, strike with a projectile’,[1] from garroc, guaroc ‘crossbow bolt’, variant of garrot, garot ‘large wooden projectile, stick for twisting rope’.[2] More at garrot.
Pronunciation
Verb
garrocher
- (colloquial, Western France) to throw
- (Canada) to throw aimlessly or carelessly
Conjugation
Conjugation of garrocher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | garrocher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | garrochant /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | garroché /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | garroche /ɡa.ʁɔʃ/ |
garroches /ɡa.ʁɔʃ/ |
garroche /ɡa.ʁɔʃ/ |
garrochons /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃɔ̃/ |
garrochez /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃe/ |
garrochent /ɡa.ʁɔʃ/ |
| imperfect | garrochais /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃɛ/ |
garrochais /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃɛ/ |
garrochait /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃɛ/ |
garrochions /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃjɔ̃/ |
garrochiez /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃje/ |
garrochaient /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | garrochai /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃe/ |
garrochas /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃa/ |
garrocha /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃa/ |
garrochâmes /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃam/ |
garrochâtes /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃat/ |
garrochèrent /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | garrocherai /ɡa.ʁɔʃ.ʁe/ |
garrocheras /ɡa.ʁɔʃ.ʁa/ |
garrochera /ɡa.ʁɔʃ.ʁa/ |
garrocherons /ɡa.ʁɔʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
garrocherez /ɡa.ʁɔʃ.ʁe/ |
garrocheront /ɡa.ʁɔʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | garrocherais /ɡa.ʁɔʃ.ʁɛ/ |
garrocherais /ɡa.ʁɔʃ.ʁɛ/ |
garrocherait /ɡa.ʁɔʃ.ʁɛ/ |
garrocherions /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
garrocheriez /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃə.ʁje/ |
garrocheraient /ɡa.ʁɔʃ.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 | garroche /ɡa.ʁɔʃ/ |
garroches /ɡa.ʁɔʃ/ |
garroche /ɡa.ʁɔʃ/ |
garrochions /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃjɔ̃/ |
garrochiez /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃje/ |
garrochent /ɡa.ʁɔʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | garrochasse /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃas/ |
garrochasses /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃas/ |
garrochât /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃa/ |
garrochassions /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
garrochassiez /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃa.sje/ |
garrochassent /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | garroche /ɡa.ʁɔʃ/ |
— | garrochons /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃɔ̃/ |
garrochez /ɡa.ʁɔ.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- “garrocher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.