sarcler

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *sarclāre, from Late Latin sarculāre, from Latin sarculum. Compare Italian sarchiare, Spanish and Portuguese sachar, Romansh zerclar, Aromanian sãrcljedz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saʁ.kle/

Verb

sarcler

1. to hoe

Conjugation

Conjugation of sarcler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	sarcler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sarclant /saʁ.klɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sarclé /saʁ.kle/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sarcle /saʁkl/	sarcles /saʁkl/	sarcle /saʁkl/	sarclons /saʁ.klɔ̃/	sarclez /saʁ.kle/	sarclent /saʁkl/
	imperfect	sarclais /saʁ.klɛ/	sarclais /saʁ.klɛ/	sarclait /saʁ.klɛ/	sarclions /saʁ.kli.jɔ̃/	sarcliez /saʁ.kli.je/	sarclaient /saʁ.klɛ/
	past historic2	sarclai /saʁ.kle/	sarclas /saʁ.kla/	sarcla /saʁ.kla/	sarclâmes /saʁ.klam/	sarclâtes /saʁ.klat/	sarclèrent /saʁ.klɛʁ/
	future	sarclerai /saʁ.klə.ʁe/	sarcleras /saʁ.klə.ʁa/	sarclera /saʁ.klə.ʁa/	sarclerons /saʁ.klə.ʁɔ̃/	sarclerez /saʁ.klə.ʁe/	sarcleront /saʁ.klə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	sarclerais /saʁ.klə.ʁɛ/	sarclerais /saʁ.klə.ʁɛ/	sarclerait /saʁ.klə.ʁɛ/	sarclerions /saʁ.klə.ʁjɔ̃/	sarcleriez /saʁ.klə.ʁje/	sarcleraient /saʁ.klə.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	sarcle /saʁkl/	sarcles /saʁkl/	sarcle /saʁkl/	sarclions /saʁ.kli.jɔ̃/	sarcliez /saʁ.kli.je/	sarclent /saʁkl/
	imperfect2	sarclasse /saʁ.klas/	sarclasses /saʁ.klas/	sarclât /saʁ.kla/	sarclassions /saʁ.kla.sjɔ̃/	sarclassiez /saʁ.kla.sje/	sarclassent /saʁ.klas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sarcle /saʁkl/	—	sarclons /saʁ.klɔ̃/	sarclez /saʁ.kle/	—
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

• sarclage
• sarcleur

Further reading

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