enhucher

French

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.y.ʃe/

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Verb

enhucher

1. (transitive, pronominal) hang (to place on a hook)
   • 1879, Revue des Deux Mondes, volume 33, published 1879:

     Je n’y aurais point d’objection sérieuse, car de tout temps, on s’est montré porté à enhucher les poupes, à surbaisser par contre les avans.

     I wouldn’t have any serious objection to it, because throughout time, people have shown a tendency to hang the sterns, while lowering the bows in contrast.

   • (Can we date this quote?), “VARIÉTÉS: Mes Débuts dans la Marine”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 2:

     Il ne faut pas pour si peu s’enhucher le tempérament, tonnerre de Brest !

     There’s no need to hook your temper for such a trivial matter, thunder of Brest!

Conjugation

Conjugation of enhucher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	enhucher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	enhuchant /ɑ̃.y.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		enhuché /ɑ̃.y.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	enhuche /ɑ̃.yʃ/	enhuches /ɑ̃.yʃ/	enhuche /ɑ̃.yʃ/	enhuchons /ɑ̃.y.ʃɔ̃/	enhuchez /ɑ̃.y.ʃe/	enhuchent /ɑ̃.yʃ/
	imperfect	enhuchais /ɑ̃.y.ʃɛ/	enhuchais /ɑ̃.y.ʃɛ/	enhuchait /ɑ̃.y.ʃɛ/	enhuchions /ɑ̃.y.ʃjɔ̃/	enhuchiez /ɑ̃.y.ʃje/	enhuchaient /ɑ̃.y.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	enhuchai /ɑ̃.y.ʃe/	enhuchas /ɑ̃.y.ʃa/	enhucha /ɑ̃.y.ʃa/	enhuchâmes /ɑ̃.y.ʃam/	enhuchâtes /ɑ̃.y.ʃat/	enhuchèrent /ɑ̃.y.ʃɛʁ/
	future	enhucherai /ɑ̃.yʃ.ʁe/	enhucheras /ɑ̃.yʃ.ʁa/	enhuchera /ɑ̃.yʃ.ʁa/	enhucherons /ɑ̃.yʃ.ʁɔ̃/	enhucherez /ɑ̃.yʃ.ʁe/	enhucheront /ɑ̃.yʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	enhucherais /ɑ̃.yʃ.ʁɛ/	enhucherais /ɑ̃.yʃ.ʁɛ/	enhucherait /ɑ̃.yʃ.ʁɛ/	enhucherions /ɑ̃.y.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	enhucheriez /ɑ̃.y.ʃə.ʁje/	enhucheraient /ɑ̃.yʃ.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	enhuche /ɑ̃.yʃ/	enhuches /ɑ̃.yʃ/	enhuche /ɑ̃.yʃ/	enhuchions /ɑ̃.y.ʃjɔ̃/	enhuchiez /ɑ̃.y.ʃje/	enhuchent /ɑ̃.yʃ/
	imperfect2	enhuchasse /ɑ̃.y.ʃas/	enhuchasses /ɑ̃.y.ʃas/	enhuchât /ɑ̃.y.ʃa/	enhuchassions /ɑ̃.y.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	enhuchassiez /ɑ̃.y.ʃa.sje/	enhuchassent /ɑ̃.y.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	enhuche /ɑ̃.yʃ/	—	enhuchons /ɑ̃.y.ʃɔ̃/	enhuchez /ɑ̃.y.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).

References

• Marchal, Charles (1862) Dictionnaire universel de marine à l’usage des marins (in French), published 1862