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gauchir
gauchir
French
Verb
gauchir
- (intransitive) to dodge
- (intransitive) to speak or act deceptively
- (transitive, intransitive) to warp, buckle, distort, bend
- (transitive) to flavour with left-oriented political views
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of gauchir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | gauchir | avoir gauchi | |||||
| gerund | en gauchissant | en ayant gauchi | |||||
| present participle | gauchissant /ɡo.ʃi.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | gauchi /ɡo.ʃi/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | gauchis /ɡo.ʃi/ |
gauchis /ɡo.ʃi/ |
gauchit /ɡo.ʃi/ |
gauchissons /ɡo.ʃi.sɔ̃/ |
gauchissez /ɡo.ʃi.se/ |
gauchissent /ɡo.ʃis/ |
| imperfect | gauchissais /ɡo.ʃi.sɛ/ |
gauchissais /ɡo.ʃi.sɛ/ |
gauchissait /ɡo.ʃi.sɛ/ |
gauchissions /ɡo.ʃi.sjɔ̃/ |
gauchissiez /ɡo.ʃi.sje/ |
gauchissaient /ɡo.ʃi.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | gauchis /ɡo.ʃi/ |
gauchis /ɡo.ʃi/ |
gauchit /ɡo.ʃi/ |
gauchîmes /ɡo.ʃim/ |
gauchîtes /ɡo.ʃit/ |
gauchirent /ɡo.ʃiʁ/ |
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| future | gauchirai /ɡo.ʃi.ʁe/ |
gauchiras /ɡo.ʃi.ʁa/ |
gauchira /ɡo.ʃi.ʁa/ |
gauchirons /ɡo.ʃi.ʁɔ̃/ |
gauchirez /ɡo.ʃi.ʁe/ |
gauchiront /ɡo.ʃi.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | gauchirais /ɡo.ʃi.ʁɛ/ |
gauchirais /ɡo.ʃi.ʁɛ/ |
gauchirait /ɡo.ʃi.ʁɛ/ |
gauchirions /ɡo.ʃi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
gauchiriez /ɡo.ʃi.ʁje/ |
gauchiraient /ɡo.ʃi.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | gauchisse /ɡo.ʃis/ |
gauchisses /ɡo.ʃis/ |
gauchisse /ɡo.ʃis/ |
gauchissions /ɡo.ʃi.sjɔ̃/ |
gauchissiez /ɡo.ʃi.sje/ |
gauchissent /ɡo.ʃis/ |
| imperfect1 |
gauchisse /ɡo.ʃis/ |
gauchisses /ɡo.ʃis/ |
gauchît /ɡo.ʃi/ |
gauchissions /ɡo.ʃi.sjɔ̃/ |
gauchissiez /ɡo.ʃi.sje/ |
gauchissent /ɡo.ʃis/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | gauchis /ɡo.ʃi/ |
— | gauchissons /ɡo.ʃi.sɔ̃/ |
gauchissez /ɡo.ʃi.se/ |
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