ébrancher

French

Etymology

From é- +‎ branche +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

ébrancher

1. (transitive) to debranch (to remove the branches of a tree)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ébrancher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ébrancher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ébranchant /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ébranché /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ébranche /e.bʁɑ̃ʃ/	ébranches /e.bʁɑ̃ʃ/	ébranche /e.bʁɑ̃ʃ/	ébranchons /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/	ébranchez /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃe/	ébranchent /e.bʁɑ̃ʃ/
	imperfect	ébranchais /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃɛ/	ébranchais /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃɛ/	ébranchait /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃɛ/	ébranchions /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/	ébranchiez /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃje/	ébranchaient /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	ébranchai /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃe/	ébranchas /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃa/	ébrancha /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃa/	ébranchâmes /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃam/	ébranchâtes /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃat/	ébranchèrent /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃɛʁ/
	future	ébrancherai /e.bʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/	ébrancheras /e.bʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/	ébranchera /e.bʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/	ébrancherons /e.bʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/	ébrancherez /e.bʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/	ébrancheront /e.bʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ébrancherais /e.bʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	ébrancherais /e.bʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	ébrancherait /e.bʁɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/	ébrancherions /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	ébrancheriez /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃə.ʁje/	ébrancheraient /e.bʁɑ̃ʃ.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	ébranche /e.bʁɑ̃ʃ/	ébranches /e.bʁɑ̃ʃ/	ébranche /e.bʁɑ̃ʃ/	ébranchions /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/	ébranchiez /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃje/	ébranchent /e.bʁɑ̃ʃ/
	imperfect2	ébranchasse /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃas/	ébranchasses /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃas/	ébranchât /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃa/	ébranchassions /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	ébranchassiez /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃa.sje/	ébranchassent /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ébranche /e.bʁɑ̃ʃ/	—	ébranchons /e.bʁɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/	ébranchez /e.bʁɑ̃.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

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