attacher (plural attachers)
Inherited from Old French atachier, variant of estachier (“bind”), derived from estache (“stick”), from Frankish *stakka (“stick”). Cognate with Old Occitan estacha, Italian stacca, Spanish estaca; from Gothic *stakka. Doublet of attaquer.
attacher
infinitive | simple | attacher | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | attachant /a.ta.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | attaché /a.ta.ʃe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | attache /a.taʃ/ |
attaches /a.taʃ/ |
attache /a.taʃ/ |
attachons /a.ta.ʃɔ̃/ |
attachez /a.ta.ʃe/ |
attachent /a.taʃ/ |
imperfect | attachais /a.ta.ʃɛ/ |
attachais /a.ta.ʃɛ/ |
attachait /a.ta.ʃɛ/ |
attachions /a.ta.ʃjɔ̃/ |
attachiez /a.ta.ʃje/ |
attachaient /a.ta.ʃɛ/ | |
past historic2 | attachai /a.ta.ʃe/ |
attachas /a.ta.ʃa/ |
attacha /a.ta.ʃa/ |
attachâmes /a.ta.ʃam/ |
attachâtes /a.ta.ʃat/ |
attachèrent /a.ta.ʃɛʁ/ | |
future | attacherai /a.taʃ.ʁe/ |
attacheras /a.taʃ.ʁa/ |
attachera /a.taʃ.ʁa/ |
attacherons /a.taʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
attacherez /a.taʃ.ʁe/ |
attacheront /a.taʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | attacherais /a.taʃ.ʁɛ/ |
attacherais /a.taʃ.ʁɛ/ |
attacherait /a.taʃ.ʁɛ/ |
attacherions /a.ta.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
attacheriez /a.ta.ʃə.ʁje/ |
attacheraient /a.taʃ.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 | attache /a.taʃ/ |
attaches /a.taʃ/ |
attache /a.taʃ/ |
attachions /a.ta.ʃjɔ̃/ |
attachiez /a.ta.ʃje/ |
attachent /a.taʃ/ |
imperfect2 | attachasse /a.ta.ʃas/ |
attachasses /a.ta.ʃas/ |
attachât /a.ta.ʃa/ |
attachassions /a.ta.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
attachassiez /a.ta.ʃa.sje/ |
attachassent /a.ta.ʃas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | attache /a.taʃ/ |
— | attachons /a.ta.ʃɔ̃/ |
attachez /a.ta.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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |