écorcher
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French escorchier, inherited from Late Latin excorticāre, from cortex. Compare the borrowing décortiquer and Catalan escorxar. Distantly related to écorcer.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]écorcher
- to skin (to remove the skin off)
- (reflexive) to graze (one's body)
- (of words) to mispronounce, butcher
- Synonym: rudoyer
- 2014, Édouard Louis, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule [The End of Eddy], Le Seuil:
- Lors de son voyage, il s’était lié d’amitié avec un jeune voyou (ma mère disait : un pique-pochette, elle écorchait sans arrêt les mots) […]
- During his journey, he had befriended a young hooligan (or, as my mother said, a pique-pochette [a mispronunciation of pickpocket]; she was constantly mispronouncing words) […]
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of écorcher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | écorcher | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | écorchant /e.kɔʁ.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | écorché /e.kɔʁ.ʃe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | écorche /e.kɔʁʃ/ |
écorches /e.kɔʁʃ/ |
écorche /e.kɔʁʃ/ |
écorchons /e.kɔʁ.ʃɔ̃/ |
écorchez /e.kɔʁ.ʃe/ |
écorchent /e.kɔʁʃ/ |
imperfect | écorchais /e.kɔʁ.ʃɛ/ |
écorchais /e.kɔʁ.ʃɛ/ |
écorchait /e.kɔʁ.ʃɛ/ |
écorchions /e.kɔʁ.ʃjɔ̃/ |
écorchiez /e.kɔʁ.ʃje/ |
écorchaient /e.kɔʁ.ʃɛ/ | |
past historic2 | écorchai /e.kɔʁ.ʃe/ |
écorchas /e.kɔʁ.ʃa/ |
écorcha /e.kɔʁ.ʃa/ |
écorchâmes /e.kɔʁ.ʃam/ |
écorchâtes /e.kɔʁ.ʃat/ |
écorchèrent /e.kɔʁ.ʃɛʁ/ | |
future | écorcherai /e.kɔʁ.ʃə.ʁe/ |
écorcheras /e.kɔʁ.ʃə.ʁa/ |
écorchera /e.kɔʁ.ʃə.ʁa/ |
écorcherons /e.kɔʁ.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/ |
écorcherez /e.kɔʁ.ʃə.ʁe/ |
écorcheront /e.kɔʁ.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | écorcherais /e.kɔʁ.ʃə.ʁɛ/ |
écorcherais /e.kɔʁ.ʃə.ʁɛ/ |
écorcherait /e.kɔʁ.ʃə.ʁɛ/ |
écorcherions /e.kɔʁ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
écorcheriez /e.kɔʁ.ʃə.ʁje/ |
écorcheraient /e.kɔʁ.ʃə.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 | écorche /e.kɔʁʃ/ |
écorches /e.kɔʁʃ/ |
écorche /e.kɔʁʃ/ |
écorchions /e.kɔʁ.ʃjɔ̃/ |
écorchiez /e.kɔʁ.ʃje/ |
écorchent /e.kɔʁʃ/ |
imperfect2 | écorchasse /e.kɔʁ.ʃas/ |
écorchasses /e.kɔʁ.ʃas/ |
écorchât /e.kɔʁ.ʃa/ |
écorchassions /e.kɔʁ.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
écorchassiez /e.kɔʁ.ʃa.sje/ |
écorchassent /e.kɔʁ.ʃas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | écorche /e.kɔʁʃ/ |
— | écorchons /e.kɔʁ.ʃɔ̃/ |
écorchez /e.kɔʁ.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “écorcher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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