amouracher

French

FWOTD – 14 February 2019

Etymology

Derived from Italian amorazzo, amoraccio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.mu.ʁa.ʃe/

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Verb

amouracher

1. (reflexive) to fall hopelessly in love; to be infatuated (de (“with”))

   Synonyms: enamourer, enticher

   • 1990, Jean Copans, La longue marche de la modernité africaine. Savoirs, intellectuels, démocratie, Karthala, 92-93:

     La vie est dure, pauvre et malheureuse mais l’existence de cette Afrique-là qui vivote, survit, s’amourache, s’encanaille, se volatilise est indéniable.

     Life is tough, poor, and miserable, but the existence of that Africa which struggles to get by, survives, falls in love, rubs elbows with the common people, [and] vanishes into thin air is undeniable.

Conjugation

Conjugation of s'amouracher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	s'amouracher
	compound	s'être + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	s’amourachant /sa.mu.ʁa.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant or étant + past participle
past participle		amouraché /a.mu.ʁa.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	m’amourache /ma.mu.ʁaʃ/	t’amouraches /ta.mu.ʁaʃ/	s’amourache /sa.mu.ʁaʃ/	nous amourachons /nu.z‿a.mu.ʁa.ʃɔ̃/	vous amourachez /vu.z‿a.mu.ʁa.ʃe/	s’amourachent /sa.mu.ʁaʃ/
	imperfect	m’amourachais /ma.mu.ʁa.ʃɛ/	t’amourachais /ta.mu.ʁa.ʃɛ/	s’amourachait /sa.mu.ʁa.ʃɛ/	nous amourachions /nu.z‿a.mu.ʁa.ʃjɔ̃/	vous amourachiez /vu.z‿a.mu.ʁa.ʃje/	s’amourachaient /sa.mu.ʁa.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	m’amourachai /ma.mu.ʁa.ʃe/	t’amourachas /ta.mu.ʁa.ʃa/	s’amouracha /sa.mu.ʁa.ʃa/	nous amourachâmes /nu.z‿a.mu.ʁa.ʃam/	vous amourachâtes /vu.z‿a.mu.ʁa.ʃat/	s’amourachèrent /sa.mu.ʁa.ʃɛʁ/
	future	m’amouracherai /ma.mu.ʁaʃ.ʁe/	t’amouracheras /ta.mu.ʁaʃ.ʁa/	s’amourachera /sa.mu.ʁaʃ.ʁa/	nous amouracherons /nu.z‿a.mu.ʁaʃ.ʁɔ̃/	vous amouracherez /vu.z‿a.mu.ʁaʃ.ʁe/	s’amouracheront /sa.mu.ʁaʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	m’amouracherais /ma.mu.ʁaʃ.ʁɛ/	t’amouracherais /ta.mu.ʁaʃ.ʁɛ/	s’amouracherait /sa.mu.ʁaʃ.ʁɛ/	nous amouracherions /nu.z‿a.mu.ʁa.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	vous amouracheriez /vu.z‿a.mu.ʁa.ʃə.ʁje/	s’amouracheraient /sa.mu.ʁaʃ.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of s'être + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of s'être + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of s'être + past participle
	future perfect	future of s'être + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of s'être + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	m’amourache /ma.mu.ʁaʃ/	t’amouraches /ta.mu.ʁaʃ/	s’amourache /sa.mu.ʁaʃ/	nous amourachions /nu.z‿a.mu.ʁa.ʃjɔ̃/	vous amourachiez /vu.z‿a.mu.ʁa.ʃje/	s’amourachent /sa.mu.ʁaʃ/
	imperfect2	m’amourachasse /ma.mu.ʁa.ʃas/	t’amourachasses /ta.mu.ʁa.ʃas/	s’amourachât /sa.mu.ʁa.ʃa/	nous amourachassions /nu.z‿a.mu.ʁa.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	vous amourachassiez /vu.z‿a.mu.ʁa.ʃa.sje/	s’amourachassent /sa.mu.ʁa.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of s'être + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of s'être + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	amourache-toi /a.mu.ʁaʃ.twa/	—	amourachons-nous /a.mu.ʁa.ʃɔ̃.nu/	amourachez-vous /a.mu.ʁa.ʃe.vu/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of s'être + past participle	—	simple imperative of s'être + past participle	simple imperative of s'être + 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

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