déchoir

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See also: de chóir

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French decheoir, from Vulgar Latin *dēcadere, from Latin dēcidere. Related to English decay.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /de.ʃwaʁ/
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  • Rhymes: -waʁ

Verb

déchoir

  1. (literary) to wane (diminish)
  2. (literary) to strip
    déchoir un homme de son titre ― to strip a man of his title

Conjugation

This verb is defective in that it is not conjugated in certain tenses. It has no indicative imperfect form, no imperative form and no present participle. This verb is impersonal and is conjugated only in the third-person singular.

Conjugation of déchoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple déchoir
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple —
compound ayant + past participle
past participle déchu
/de.ʃy/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present — — déchoit or déchet
/de.ʃwa/ or /de.ʃɛ/ 		— — —
imperfect — — — — — —
past historic2 — — déchut
/de.ʃy/ 		— — —
future — — déchoira or décherra
/de.ʃwa.ʁa/ or /de.ʃɛ.ʁa/ or /de.ʃe.ʁa/ 		— — —
conditional — — déchoirait or décherrait
/de.ʃwa.ʁɛ/ or /de.ʃɛ.ʁɛ/ or /de.ʃe.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 — — déchoie
/de.ʃwa/ 		— — —
imperfect2 — — déchût
/de.ʃy/ 		— — —
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — — — — — —
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:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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