échancrer

French

Etymology

From é- +‎ chancre +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

échancrer (transitive)

1. to scallop (cut in the shape of a crescent)

Conjugation

infinitive	simple	échancrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	échancrant /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		échancré /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	échancre /e.ʃɑ̃kʁ/	échancres /e.ʃɑ̃kʁ/	échancre /e.ʃɑ̃kʁ/	échancrons /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁɔ̃/	échancrez /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁe/	échancrent /e.ʃɑ̃kʁ/
	imperfect	échancrais /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁɛ/	échancrais /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁɛ/	échancrait /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁɛ/	échancrions /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁi.jɔ̃/	échancriez /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁi.je/	échancraient /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁɛ/
	past historic2	échancrai /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁe/	échancras /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁa/	échancra /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁa/	échancrâmes /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁam/	échancrâtes /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁat/	échancrèrent /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁɛʁ/
	future	échancrerai /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁə.ʁe/	échancreras /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁə.ʁa/	échancrera /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁə.ʁa/	échancrerons /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁə.ʁɔ̃/	échancrerez /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁə.ʁe/	échancreront /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	échancrerais /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁə.ʁɛ/	échancrerais /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁə.ʁɛ/	échancrerait /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁə.ʁɛ/	échancrerions /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	échancreriez /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁə.ʁje/	échancreraient /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁə.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	échancre /e.ʃɑ̃kʁ/	échancres /e.ʃɑ̃kʁ/	échancre /e.ʃɑ̃kʁ/	échancrions /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁi.jɔ̃/	échancriez /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁi.je/	échancrent /e.ʃɑ̃kʁ/
	imperfect2	échancrasse /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁas/	échancrasses /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁas/	échancrât /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁa/	échancrassions /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁa.sjɔ̃/	échancrassiez /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁa.sje/	échancrassent /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	échancre /e.ʃɑ̃kʁ/	—	échancrons /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁɔ̃/	échancrez /e.ʃɑ̃.kʁe/	—
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).

Conjugation of échancrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

Further reading

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