marche

See also: Marche and marché

Asturian

Verb

(deprecated template usage) marche

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of marchar

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maʁʃ/

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Noun

marche f (plural marches)

1. march (formal, rhythmic way of walking)
2. march (song in the genre of music written for marching)
3. walk (distance walked)
4. movement (of a vehicle)
5. functioning
6. step (step of a stair)
7. marches (region near a border)

Derived terms

• mettre en marche

Related terms

• marcher

Descendants

• Esperanto: marŝo
• → German: Marsch
  • → Polish: marsz

Verb

marche

1. inflection of marcher:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• charme, charmé, mâcher

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Italian

Noun

marche f pl

1. plural of marca

Anagrams

• charme

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Middle French

Alternative forms

• marce

Etymology

From Old French marche, see below.

Noun

marche f (plural marches)

1. limit; boundary

Descendants

• French: marche
• → Middle English: marche
  • English: march

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (marche, supplement)

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Norman

Verb

1. inflection of marchi:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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Old French

Alternative forms

• marchee, march, marce, merche

Etymology

Either directly from Frankish *marku or through Latin marca, from Proto-Germanic *markō, from Proto-Indo-European *mereg- (“edge, boundary”).

Noun

marche oblique singular, f (oblique plural marches, nominative singular marche, nominative plural marches)

1. limit; boundary

Descendants

• Middle French: marche, marce
  • French: marche
  • → Middle English: marche
    • English: march

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (marche, supplement)

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Portuguese

Verb

marche

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Spanish

Verb

marche

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of marchar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of marchar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of marchar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of marchar.