aboucher
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.bu.ʃe/
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Verb
aboucher
- (archaic) to put or get in contact or communication
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- Il fallait attendre, au contraire, tâter ce gaillard-là. La chose valait la peine d'un voyage, et, comme elle ne pouvait faire ce voyage, il offrir de se rendre sur les lieux, pour s'aboucher avec Langlois.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (archaic) to touch via an opening
- (obsolete, pronominal) to put the mouth close to
- (obsolete) to talk with
Conjugation
Conjugation of aboucher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | aboucher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | abouchant /a.bu.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | abouché /a.bu.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | abouche /a.buʃ/ |
abouches /a.buʃ/ |
abouche /a.buʃ/ |
abouchons /a.bu.ʃɔ̃/ |
abouchez /a.bu.ʃe/ |
abouchent /a.buʃ/ |
| imperfect | abouchais /a.bu.ʃɛ/ |
abouchais /a.bu.ʃɛ/ |
abouchait /a.bu.ʃɛ/ |
abouchions /a.bu.ʃjɔ̃/ |
abouchiez /a.bu.ʃje/ |
abouchaient /a.bu.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | abouchai /a.bu.ʃe/ |
abouchas /a.bu.ʃa/ |
aboucha /a.bu.ʃa/ |
abouchâmes /a.bu.ʃam/ |
abouchâtes /a.bu.ʃat/ |
abouchèrent /a.bu.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | aboucherai /a.buʃ.ʁe/ |
aboucheras /a.buʃ.ʁa/ |
abouchera /a.buʃ.ʁa/ |
aboucherons /a.buʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
aboucherez /a.buʃ.ʁe/ |
aboucheront /a.buʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | aboucherais /a.buʃ.ʁɛ/ |
aboucherais /a.buʃ.ʁɛ/ |
aboucherait /a.buʃ.ʁɛ/ |
aboucherions /a.bu.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
aboucheriez /a.bu.ʃə.ʁje/ |
aboucheraient /a.buʃ.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 | abouche /a.buʃ/ |
abouches /a.buʃ/ |
abouche /a.buʃ/ |
abouchions /a.bu.ʃjɔ̃/ |
abouchiez /a.bu.ʃje/ |
abouchent /a.buʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | abouchasse /a.bu.ʃas/ |
abouchasses /a.bu.ʃas/ |
abouchât /a.bu.ʃa/ |
abouchassions /a.bu.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
abouchassiez /a.bu.ʃa.sje/ |
abouchassent /a.bu.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | abouche /a.buʃ/ |
— | abouchons /a.bu.ʃɔ̃/ |
abouchez /a.bu.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “aboucher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012