ébrécher
French
Etymology
From Middle French ebrecher, from Old French esbrechier, equivalent to é- + brèche + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ebʁeʃe/
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’), with the latter being used before mute ‘e’. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written ébrécher-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written ébrècher-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.
| present participle | ébréchant /e.bʁe.ʃɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | ébréché /e.bʁe.ʃe/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | ébrécher | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | ébréchant /e.bʁe.ʃɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | ébrèche /e.bʁɛʃ/ |
ébrèches /e.bʁɛʃ/ |
ébrèche /e.bʁɛʃ/ |
ébréchons /e.bʁe.ʃɔ̃/ |
ébréchez /e.bʁe.ʃe/ |
ébrèchent /e.bʁɛʃ/ |
| imperfect | ébréchais /e.bʁe.ʃɛ/ |
ébréchais /e.bʁe.ʃɛ/ |
ébréchait /e.bʁe.ʃɛ/ |
ébréchions /e.bʁe.ʃjɔ̃/ |
ébréchiez /e.bʁe.ʃje/ |
ébréchaient /e.bʁe.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | ébréchai /e.bʁe.ʃe/ |
ébréchas /e.bʁe.ʃa/ |
ébrécha /e.bʁe.ʃa/ |
ébréchâmes /e.bʁe.ʃam/ |
ébréchâtes /e.bʁe.ʃat/ |
ébréchèrent /e.bʁe.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | ébrècherai or ébrécherai /e.bʁɛʃ.ʁe/ |
ébrècheras or ébrécheras /e.bʁɛʃ.ʁa/ |
ébrèchera or ébréchera /e.bʁɛʃ.ʁa/ |
ébrècherons or ébrécherons /e.bʁɛʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
ébrècherez or ébrécherez /e.bʁɛʃ.ʁe/ |
ébrècheront or ébrécheront /e.bʁɛʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | ébrècherais or ébrécherais /e.bʁɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
ébrècherais or ébrécherais /e.bʁɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
ébrècherait or ébrécherait /e.bʁɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
ébrècherions or ébrécherions /e.bʁɛ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
ébrècheriez or ébrécheriez /e.bʁɛ.ʃə.ʁje/ |
ébrècheraient or ébrécheraient /e.bʁɛʃ.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 | ébrèche /e.bʁɛʃ/ |
ébrèches /e.bʁɛʃ/ |
ébrèche /e.bʁɛʃ/ |
ébréchions /e.bʁe.ʃjɔ̃/ |
ébréchiez /e.bʁe.ʃje/ |
ébrèchent /e.bʁɛʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | ébréchasse /e.bʁe.ʃas/ |
ébréchasses /e.bʁe.ʃas/ |
ébréchât /e.bʁe.ʃa/ |
ébréchassions /e.bʁe.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
ébréchassiez /e.bʁe.ʃa.sje/ |
ébréchassent /e.bʁe.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | ébrèche /e.bʁɛʃ/ |
— | ébréchons /e.bʁe.ʃɔ̃/ |
ébréchez /e.bʁe.ʃe/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “ébrécher” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).