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sécher
sécher
French
Verb
sécher
- to dry
- to play truant
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 sécher-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written sècher-, 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.
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | sécher | avoir séché | |||||
| gerund | en séchant | en ayant séché | |||||
| present participle | séchant /se.ʃɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | séché /se.ʃe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | sèche /sɛʃ/ |
sèches /sɛʃ/ |
sèche /sɛʃ/ |
séchons /se.ʃɔ̃/ |
séchez /se.ʃe/ |
sèchent /sɛʃ/ |
| imperfect | séchais /se.ʃɛ/ |
séchais /se.ʃɛ/ |
séchait /se.ʃɛ/ |
séchions /se.ʃjɔ̃/ |
séchiez /se.ʃje/ |
séchaient /se.ʃɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | séchai /se.ʃe/ |
séchas /se.ʃa/ |
sécha /se.ʃa/ |
séchâmes /se.ʃam/ |
séchâtes /se.ʃat/ |
séchèrent /se.ʃɛʁ/ |
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| future | sècherai or sécherai /sɛʃ.ʁe/ |
sècheras or sécheras /sɛʃ.ʁa/ |
sèchera or séchera /sɛʃ.ʁa/ |
sècherons or sécherons /sɛʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
sècherez or sécherez /sɛʃ.ʁe/ |
sècheront or sécheront /sɛʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | sècherais or sécherais /sɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
sècherais or sécherais /sɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
sècherait or sécherait /sɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
sècherions or sécherions /sɛ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
sècheriez or sécheriez /sɛ.ʃə.ʁje/ |
sècheraient or sécheraient /sɛʃ.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 | sèche /sɛʃ/ |
sèches /sɛʃ/ |
sèche /sɛʃ/ |
séchions /se.ʃjɔ̃/ |
séchiez /se.ʃje/ |
sèchent /sɛʃ/ |
| imperfect1 |
séchasse /se.ʃas/ |
séchasses /se.ʃas/ |
séchât /se.ʃa/ |
séchassions /se.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
séchassiez /se.ʃa.sje/ |
séchassent /se.ʃas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | sèche /sɛʃ/ |
— | séchons /se.ʃɔ̃/ |
séchez /se.ʃe/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Related terms
Anagrams
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Etymology
From Old High German sichur, from Latin sēcūrus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈzeɕɐ/
Adjective
sécher (masculine sécheren, neuter séchert, comparative méi sécher, superlative am séchersten)
Declension
| masculine | feminine | neuter | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| accusative | sécheren | sécher | séchert | sécher |
| nominative | sécheren | sécher | séchert | sécher |
| dative | sécheren | sécherer | sécheren | sécheren |
Adverb
sécher