échouer
Appearance
See also: êchouer
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]échouer
- to fail, fall through, miscarry
- (informal) to end, wind up
- Ils échouaient criblés de dettes. ― They ended up in mountains of debt.
- (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) to ground, run aground
- (voluntarily) to beach
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of échouer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | échouer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | échouant /e.ʃwɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | échoué /e.ʃwe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | échoue /e.ʃu/ |
échoues /e.ʃu/ |
échoue /e.ʃu/ |
échouons /e.ʃwɔ̃/ |
échouez /e.ʃwe/ |
échouent /e.ʃu/ |
imperfect | échouais /e.ʃwɛ/ |
échouais /e.ʃwɛ/ |
échouait /e.ʃwɛ/ |
échouions /e.ʃu.jɔ̃/ |
échouiez /e.ʃu.je/ |
échouaient /e.ʃwɛ/ | |
past historic2 | échouai /e.ʃwe/ |
échouas /e.ʃwa/ |
échoua /e.ʃwa/ |
échouâmes /e.ʃwam/ |
échouâtes /e.ʃwat/ |
échouèrent /e.ʃwɛʁ/ | |
future | échouerai /e.ʃu.ʁe/ |
échoueras /e.ʃu.ʁa/ |
échouera /e.ʃu.ʁa/ |
échouerons /e.ʃu.ʁɔ̃/ |
échouerez /e.ʃu.ʁe/ |
échoueront /e.ʃu.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | échouerais /e.ʃu.ʁɛ/ |
échouerais /e.ʃu.ʁɛ/ |
échouerait /e.ʃu.ʁɛ/ |
échouerions /e.ʃu.ʁjɔ̃/ |
échoueriez /e.ʃu.ʁje/ |
échoueraient /e.ʃu.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 | échoue /e.ʃu/ |
échoues /e.ʃu/ |
échoue /e.ʃu/ |
échouions /e.ʃu.jɔ̃/ |
échouiez /e.ʃu.je/ |
échouent /e.ʃu/ |
imperfect2 | échouasse /e.ʃwas/ |
échouasses /e.ʃwas/ |
échouât /e.ʃwa/ |
échouassions /e.ʃwa.sjɔ̃/ |
échouassiez /e.ʃwa.sje/ |
échouassent /e.ʃwas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | échoue /e.ʃu/ |
— | échouons /e.ʃwɔ̃/ |
échouez /e.ʃwe/ |
— | |
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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “échouer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
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- French terms with unknown etymologies
- French 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:French/we
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- French lemmas
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- French verbs with conjugation -er
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