échoir
French
Etymology
From Old French escheoir, from a Vulgar Latin or Late Latin root *excadēre, alteration of Latin excidere, based on ex + cadere. Compare Italian scadere, Romanian scădea, Spanish escaecer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.ʃwaʁ/
- Rhymes: -waʁ
Verb
échoir
- (intransitive) to befall, to happen by chance
- Cela lui est échu en partage.
- It fell to his lot.
- Cela lui est échu en partage.
- (intransitive, law, obsolete) to become necessary (only used in the phrase le cas échéant)
- (intransitive, of an invoice) to become payable, to be due
- Le mode de facturation est à terme échu, car le calcul est basé sur l'utilisation mensuelle.
- The invoicing is presented in arrears, since the calculation is based on the monthly usage.
- Le mode de facturation est à terme échu, car le calcul est basé sur l'utilisation mensuelle.
Conjugation
This verb is defective and is only conjugated in the third-person. This verb is impersonal and is conjugated only in the third-person singular.
Conjugation of échoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | échéant /e.ʃe.ɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | échu /e.ʃy/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | échoir | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | échéant /e.ʃe.ɑ̃/ | ||||||
| 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 | — | — | échoit or échet /e.ʃwa/ or /e.ʃɛ/ |
— | — | — |
| imperfect | — | — | échoyait /e.ʃwa.jɛ/ |
— | — | — | |
| past historic2 | — | — | échut /e.ʃy/ |
— | — | — | |
| future | — | — | échoira /e.ʃwa.ʁa/ |
— | — | — | |
| conditional | — | — | échoirait /e.ʃwa.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 | — | — | échoie /e.ʃwa/ |
— | — | — |
| imperfect2 | — | — | échût /e.ʃy/ |
— | — | — | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “échoir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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