approcher
French
Etymology
From Old French aprochier, from Late Latin appropiāre, present active infinitive of appropiō, from ad + propiō, from Latin prope (“near”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.pʁɔ.ʃe/
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Conjugation
Conjugation of approcher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | approchant /a.pʁɔ.ʃɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | approché /a.pʁɔ.ʃe/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | approcher | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | approchant /a.pʁɔ.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 | approche /a.pʁɔʃ/ |
approches /a.pʁɔʃ/ |
approche /a.pʁɔʃ/ |
approchons /a.pʁɔ.ʃɔ̃/ |
approchez /a.pʁɔ.ʃe/ |
approchent /a.pʁɔʃ/ |
| imperfect | approchais /a.pʁɔ.ʃɛ/ |
approchais /a.pʁɔ.ʃɛ/ |
approchait /a.pʁɔ.ʃɛ/ |
approchions /a.pʁɔ.ʃjɔ̃/ |
approchiez /a.pʁɔ.ʃje/ |
approchaient /a.pʁɔ.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | approchai /a.pʁɔ.ʃe/ |
approchas /a.pʁɔ.ʃa/ |
approcha /a.pʁɔ.ʃa/ |
approchâmes /a.pʁɔ.ʃam/ |
approchâtes /a.pʁɔ.ʃat/ |
approchèrent /a.pʁɔ.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | approcherai /a.pʁɔʃ.ʁe/ |
approcheras /a.pʁɔʃ.ʁa/ |
approchera /a.pʁɔʃ.ʁa/ |
approcherons /a.pʁɔʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
approcherez /a.pʁɔʃ.ʁe/ |
approcheront /a.pʁɔʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | approcherais /a.pʁɔʃ.ʁɛ/ |
approcherais /a.pʁɔʃ.ʁɛ/ |
approcherait /a.pʁɔʃ.ʁɛ/ |
approcherions /a.pʁɔ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
approcheriez /a.pʁɔ.ʃə.ʁje/ |
approcheraient /a.pʁɔʃ.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 | approche /a.pʁɔʃ/ |
approches /a.pʁɔʃ/ |
approche /a.pʁɔʃ/ |
approchions /a.pʁɔ.ʃjɔ̃/ |
approchiez /a.pʁɔ.ʃje/ |
approchent /a.pʁɔʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | approchasse /a.pʁɔ.ʃas/ |
approchasses /a.pʁɔ.ʃas/ |
approchât /a.pʁɔ.ʃa/ |
approchassions /a.pʁɔ.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
approchassiez /a.pʁɔ.ʃa.sje/ |
approchassent /a.pʁɔ.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | approche /a.pʁɔʃ/ |
— | approchons /a.pʁɔ.ʃɔ̃/ |
approchez /a.pʁɔ.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). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “approcher” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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