fourcher

French

Etymology

From fourche +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fuʁ.ʃe/

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Verb

fourcher

1. (intransitive) to fork
2. (intransitive) to make a slip of the tongue

Conjugation

infinitive	simple	fourcher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	fourchant /fuʁ.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		fourché /fuʁ.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	fourche /fuʁʃ/	fourches /fuʁʃ/	fourche /fuʁʃ/	fourchons /fuʁ.ʃɔ̃/	fourchez /fuʁ.ʃe/	fourchent /fuʁʃ/
	imperfect	fourchais /fuʁ.ʃɛ/	fourchais /fuʁ.ʃɛ/	fourchait /fuʁ.ʃɛ/	fourchions /fuʁ.ʃjɔ̃/	fourchiez /fuʁ.ʃje/	fourchaient /fuʁ.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	fourchai /fuʁ.ʃe/	fourchas /fuʁ.ʃa/	fourcha /fuʁ.ʃa/	fourchâmes /fuʁ.ʃam/	fourchâtes /fuʁ.ʃat/	fourchèrent /fuʁ.ʃɛʁ/
	future	fourcherai /fuʁ.ʃə.ʁe/	fourcheras /fuʁ.ʃə.ʁa/	fourchera /fuʁ.ʃə.ʁa/	fourcherons /fuʁ.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/	fourcherez /fuʁ.ʃə.ʁe/	fourcheront /fuʁ.ʃə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	fourcherais /fuʁ.ʃə.ʁɛ/	fourcherais /fuʁ.ʃə.ʁɛ/	fourcherait /fuʁ.ʃə.ʁɛ/	fourcherions /fuʁ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	fourcheriez /fuʁ.ʃə.ʁje/	fourcheraient /fuʁ.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	fourche /fuʁʃ/	fourches /fuʁʃ/	fourche /fuʁʃ/	fourchions /fuʁ.ʃjɔ̃/	fourchiez /fuʁ.ʃje/	fourchent /fuʁʃ/
	imperfect2	fourchasse /fuʁ.ʃas/	fourchasses /fuʁ.ʃas/	fourchât /fuʁ.ʃa/	fourchassions /fuʁ.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	fourchassiez /fuʁ.ʃa.sje/	fourchassent /fuʁ.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	fourche /fuʁʃ/	—	fourchons /fuʁ.ʃɔ̃/	fourchez /fuʁ.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).

Conjugation of fourcher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

Further reading

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