From Old French from Vulgar Latin *falcāre or *falciāre (compare Italian falciare), from Latin falcem (“sickle, scythe”) (compare faucille), from Proto-Indo-European *dhalk-, *dhalg- (“a cutting tool”).
faucher
| infinitive | simple | faucher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | fauchant /fo.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | fauché /fo.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | fauche /foʃ/ |
fauches /foʃ/ |
fauche /foʃ/ |
fauchons /fo.ʃɔ̃/ |
fauchez /fo.ʃe/ |
fauchent /foʃ/ |
| imperfect | fauchais /fo.ʃɛ/ |
fauchais /fo.ʃɛ/ |
fauchait /fo.ʃɛ/ |
fauchions /fo.ʃjɔ̃/ |
fauchiez /fo.ʃje/ |
fauchaient /fo.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | fauchai /fo.ʃe/ |
fauchas /fo.ʃa/ |
faucha /fo.ʃa/ |
fauchâmes /fo.ʃam/ |
fauchâtes /fo.ʃat/ |
fauchèrent /fo.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | faucherai /foʃ.ʁe/ |
faucheras /foʃ.ʁa/ |
fauchera /foʃ.ʁa/ |
faucherons /foʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
faucherez /foʃ.ʁe/ |
faucheront /foʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | faucherais /foʃ.ʁɛ/ |
faucherais /foʃ.ʁɛ/ |
faucherait /foʃ.ʁɛ/ |
faucherions /fo.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
faucheriez /fo.ʃə.ʁje/ |
faucheraient /foʃ.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 | fauche /foʃ/ |
fauches /foʃ/ |
fauche /foʃ/ |
fauchions /fo.ʃjɔ̃/ |
fauchiez /fo.ʃje/ |
fauchent /foʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | fauchasse /fo.ʃas/ |
fauchasses /fo.ʃas/ |
fauchât /fo.ʃa/ |
fauchassions /fo.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
fauchassiez /fo.ʃa.sje/ |
fauchassent /fo.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | fauche /foʃ/ |
— | fauchons /fo.ʃɔ̃/ |
fauchez /fo.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). | |||||||