garrocher

French

Etymology

Western dialectal; from Old French garochier (“to fire a projectile, strike with a projectile”), from garroc, guaroc (“crossbow bolt”), variant of garrot, garot (“large wooden projectile, stick for twisting rope”). More at garrot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃe/

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Verb

garrocher

1. (colloquial, Western France, Louisiana) to throw
2. (Canada) to throw aimlessly or carelessly

Conjugation

Conjugation of garrocher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	garrocher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	garrochant /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		garroché /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	garroche /ɡa.ʁɔʃ/	garroches /ɡa.ʁɔʃ/	garroche /ɡa.ʁɔʃ/	garrochons /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃɔ̃/	garrochez /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃe/	garrochent /ɡa.ʁɔʃ/
	imperfect	garrochais /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃɛ/	garrochais /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃɛ/	garrochait /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃɛ/	garrochions /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃjɔ̃/	garrochiez /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃje/	garrochaient /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	garrochai /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃe/	garrochas /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃa/	garrocha /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃa/	garrochâmes /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃam/	garrochâtes /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃat/	garrochèrent /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃɛʁ/
	future	garrocherai /ɡa.ʁɔʃ.ʁe/	garrocheras /ɡa.ʁɔʃ.ʁa/	garrochera /ɡa.ʁɔʃ.ʁa/	garrocherons /ɡa.ʁɔʃ.ʁɔ̃/	garrocherez /ɡa.ʁɔʃ.ʁe/	garrocheront /ɡa.ʁɔʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	garrocherais /ɡa.ʁɔʃ.ʁɛ/	garrocherais /ɡa.ʁɔʃ.ʁɛ/	garrocherait /ɡa.ʁɔʃ.ʁɛ/	garrocherions /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	garrocheriez /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃə.ʁje/	garrocheraient /ɡa.ʁɔʃ.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	garroche /ɡa.ʁɔʃ/	garroches /ɡa.ʁɔʃ/	garroche /ɡa.ʁɔʃ/	garrochions /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃjɔ̃/	garrochiez /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃje/	garrochent /ɡa.ʁɔʃ/
	imperfect2	garrochasse /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃas/	garrochasses /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃas/	garrochât /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃa/	garrochassions /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	garrochassiez /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃa.sje/	garrochassent /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	garroche /ɡa.ʁɔʃ/	—	garrochons /ɡa.ʁɔ.ʃɔ̃/	garrochez /ɡa.ʁɔ.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).

Derived terms

• garrochage
• garroché

Further reading

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