retrancher

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ trancher.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃe/

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Verb

retrancher

1. (transitive) to deduct, take away, cut out (delete)
2. (intransitive) to cut down

   retrancher sur l’alcool ― cut down [one's] alcohol

3. (transitive) to cut off (exclude, from e.g. society)
4. (archaic, transitive) to kill, to snuff out, to bump off
5. (reflexive) to take shelter
6. (reflexive, military) to entrench oneself

Conjugation

Conjugation of retrancher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	retrancher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	retranchant /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		retranché /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	retranche /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/	retranches /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/	retranche /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/	retranchons /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/	retranchez /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃe/	retranchent /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/
	imperfect	retranchais /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃɛ/	retranchais /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃɛ/	retranchait /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃɛ/	retranchions /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/	retranchiez /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃje/	retranchaient /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	retranchai /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃe/	retranchas /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃa/	retrancha /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃa/	retranchâmes /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃam/	retranchâtes /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃat/	retranchèrent /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃɛʁ/
	future	retrancherai /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/	retrancheras /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/	retranchera /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/	retrancherons /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/	retrancherez /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/	retrancheront /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	retrancherais /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	retrancherais /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	retrancherait /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	retrancherions /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	retrancheriez /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃə.ʁje/	retrancheraient /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ.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	retranche /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/	retranches /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/	retranche /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/	retranchions /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/	retranchiez /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃje/	retranchent /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/
	imperfect2	retranchasse /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃas/	retranchasses /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃas/	retranchât /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃa/	retranchassions /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	retranchassiez /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃa.sje/	retranchassent /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	retranche /ʁə.tʁɑ̃ʃ/	—	retranchons /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/	retranchez /ʁə.tʁɑ̃.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).

Derived terms

• retranchement

Further reading

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