prêcher

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French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French prëechier, from Latin praedicāre.

See cognates in regional languages in France : Norman prêchi, Gallo préchier, Picard prêcher, Bourguignon prôchai, Franco-Provençal prègiér, Occitan presicar or predicar, Corsican predicà.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʁɛ.ʃe/ ~ /pʁe.ʃe/
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Verb

prêcher

  1. (transitive) to preach
    prêcher la Bonne Nouvelle ― to preach the Good News
    • 1902, Boylesve, Leçon d'amour:
      Ninon fut si bien prêchée qu’elle était en proie à une infinité de scrupules touchant la manière d’élever sa progéniture.
      Ninon was so well preached to that she was plagued by infinite scruples about how to bring up her offspring.
  2. (transitive) to advocate moral values, political ideas
    prêcher le bien ― to preach good values
    prêcher le mal ― to preach evil
    prêcher le communisme ― to advocate communism
  3. (transitive) to lecture someone about what is good or bad

Conjugation

Conjugation of prêcher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple prêcher
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple prêchant
/pʁɛ.ʃɑ̃/ or /pʁe.ʃɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle prêché
/pʁɛ.ʃe/ or /pʁe.ʃe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present prêche
/pʁɛʃ/ 		prêches
/pʁɛʃ/ 		prêche
/pʁɛʃ/ 		prêchons
/pʁɛ.ʃɔ̃/ or /pʁe.ʃɔ̃/ 		prêchez
/pʁɛ.ʃe/ or /pʁe.ʃe/ 		prêchent
/pʁɛʃ/
imperfect prêchais
/pʁɛ.ʃɛ/ or /pʁe.ʃɛ/ 		prêchais
/pʁɛ.ʃɛ/ or /pʁe.ʃɛ/ 		prêchait
/pʁɛ.ʃɛ/ or /pʁe.ʃɛ/ 		prêchions
/pʁɛ.ʃjɔ̃/ or /pʁe.ʃjɔ̃/ 		prêchiez
/pʁɛ.ʃje/ or /pʁe.ʃje/ 		prêchaient
/pʁɛ.ʃɛ/ or /pʁe.ʃɛ/
past historic2 prêchai
/pʁɛ.ʃe/ or /pʁe.ʃe/ 		prêchas
/pʁɛ.ʃa/ or /pʁe.ʃa/ 		prêcha
/pʁɛ.ʃa/ or /pʁe.ʃa/ 		prêchâmes
/pʁɛ.ʃam/ or /pʁe.ʃam/ 		prêchâtes
/pʁɛ.ʃat/ or /pʁe.ʃat/ 		prêchèrent
/pʁɛ.ʃɛʁ/ or /pʁe.ʃɛʁ/
future prêcherai
/pʁɛʃ.ʁe/ 		prêcheras
/pʁɛʃ.ʁa/ 		prêchera
/pʁɛʃ.ʁa/ 		prêcherons
/pʁɛʃ.ʁɔ̃/ 		prêcherez
/pʁɛʃ.ʁe/ 		prêcheront
/pʁɛʃ.ʁɔ̃/
conditional prêcherais
/pʁɛʃ.ʁɛ/ 		prêcherais
/pʁɛʃ.ʁɛ/ 		prêcherait
/pʁɛʃ.ʁɛ/ 		prêcherions
/pʁɛ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /pʁe.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		prêcheriez
/pʁɛ.ʃə.ʁje/ or /pʁe.ʃə.ʁje/ 		prêcheraient
/pʁɛʃ.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 prêche
/pʁɛʃ/ 		prêches
/pʁɛʃ/ 		prêche
/pʁɛʃ/ 		prêchions
/pʁɛ.ʃjɔ̃/ or /pʁe.ʃjɔ̃/ 		prêchiez
/pʁɛ.ʃje/ or /pʁe.ʃje/ 		prêchent
/pʁɛʃ/
imperfect2 prêchasse
/pʁɛ.ʃas/ or /pʁe.ʃas/ 		prêchasses
/pʁɛ.ʃas/ or /pʁe.ʃas/ 		prêchât
/pʁɛ.ʃa/ or /pʁe.ʃa/ 		prêchassions
/pʁɛ.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ or /pʁe.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ 		prêchassiez
/pʁɛ.ʃa.sje/ or /pʁe.ʃa.sje/ 		prêchassent
/pʁɛ.ʃas/ or /pʁe.ʃas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — prêche
/pʁɛʃ/ 		— prêchons
/pʁɛ.ʃɔ̃/ or /pʁe.ʃɔ̃/ 		prêchez
/pʁɛ.ʃe/ or /pʁe.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:
  • 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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