joncher

French

Etymology

Deverbal from jonc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒɔ̃.ʃe/

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Verb

joncher

1. to scatter, sprinkle (e.g. flowers)
2. to cover, litter, to be strewn over (be widespread, be sprawled across/around)
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     La table, avec toutes les assiettes, était renversée; de la sauce, de la viande, les couteaux, la salière et l'huilier jonchaient l'appartement; […] .

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Conjugation

Conjugation of joncher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	joncher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	jonchant /ʒɔ̃.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		jonché /ʒɔ̃.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	jonche /ʒɔ̃ʃ/	jonches /ʒɔ̃ʃ/	jonche /ʒɔ̃ʃ/	jonchons /ʒɔ̃.ʃɔ̃/	jonchez /ʒɔ̃.ʃe/	jonchent /ʒɔ̃ʃ/
	imperfect	jonchais /ʒɔ̃.ʃɛ/	jonchais /ʒɔ̃.ʃɛ/	jonchait /ʒɔ̃.ʃɛ/	jonchions /ʒɔ̃.ʃjɔ̃/	jonchiez /ʒɔ̃.ʃje/	jonchaient /ʒɔ̃.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	jonchai /ʒɔ̃.ʃe/	jonchas /ʒɔ̃.ʃa/	joncha /ʒɔ̃.ʃa/	jonchâmes /ʒɔ̃.ʃam/	jonchâtes /ʒɔ̃.ʃat/	jonchèrent /ʒɔ̃.ʃɛʁ/
	future	joncherai /ʒɔ̃ʃ.ʁe/	joncheras /ʒɔ̃ʃ.ʁa/	jonchera /ʒɔ̃ʃ.ʁa/	joncherons /ʒɔ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/	joncherez /ʒɔ̃ʃ.ʁe/	joncheront /ʒɔ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	joncherais /ʒɔ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	joncherais /ʒɔ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	joncherait /ʒɔ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	joncherions /ʒɔ̃.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	joncheriez /ʒɔ̃.ʃə.ʁje/	joncheraient /ʒɔ̃ʃ.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	jonche /ʒɔ̃ʃ/	jonches /ʒɔ̃ʃ/	jonche /ʒɔ̃ʃ/	jonchions /ʒɔ̃.ʃjɔ̃/	jonchiez /ʒɔ̃.ʃje/	jonchent /ʒɔ̃ʃ/
	imperfect2	jonchasse /ʒɔ̃.ʃas/	jonchasses /ʒɔ̃.ʃas/	jonchât /ʒɔ̃.ʃa/	jonchassions /ʒɔ̃.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	jonchassiez /ʒɔ̃.ʃa.sje/	jonchassent /ʒɔ̃.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	jonche /ʒɔ̃ʃ/	—	jonchons /ʒɔ̃.ʃɔ̃/	jonchez /ʒɔ̃.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

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