éplucher
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French esplucher, from Old French espeluchier, from Vulgar Latin *expiluc(i)cāre, ultimately from Latin pilāre (“remove hair”). Compare Occitan espelucar, Catalan espellucar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.ply.ʃe/
Audio (CA): (file)
Verb
éplucher
- (transitive) to peel
- (transitive, figurative) to scrutinise
- 1997, Éric Faye, translated by Jennifer Wagner, Des nouvelles de l'entrée de l'enfer:
- J'avais jeté l'imperméable sur une chaise, ayant plusiers dossiers à éplucher rapidement et des coups de téléphone à passer.
- I had thrown the raincoat on a chair, since I had several files to go through quickly and some phone calls to make.
- (reflexive) to preen
Conjugation
Conjugation of éplucher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | éplucher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | épluchant /e.ply.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | épluché /e.ply.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | épluche /e.plyʃ/ |
épluches /e.plyʃ/ |
épluche /e.plyʃ/ |
épluchons /e.ply.ʃɔ̃/ |
épluchez /e.ply.ʃe/ |
épluchent /e.plyʃ/ |
| imperfect | épluchais /e.ply.ʃɛ/ |
épluchais /e.ply.ʃɛ/ |
épluchait /e.ply.ʃɛ/ |
épluchions /e.ply.ʃjɔ̃/ |
épluchiez /e.ply.ʃje/ |
épluchaient /e.ply.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | épluchai /e.ply.ʃe/ |
épluchas /e.ply.ʃa/ |
éplucha /e.ply.ʃa/ |
épluchâmes /e.ply.ʃam/ |
épluchâtes /e.ply.ʃat/ |
épluchèrent /e.ply.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | éplucherai /e.plyʃ.ʁe/ |
éplucheras /e.plyʃ.ʁa/ |
épluchera /e.plyʃ.ʁa/ |
éplucherons /e.plyʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
éplucherez /e.plyʃ.ʁe/ |
éplucheront /e.plyʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | éplucherais /e.plyʃ.ʁɛ/ |
éplucherais /e.plyʃ.ʁɛ/ |
éplucherait /e.plyʃ.ʁɛ/ |
éplucherions /e.ply.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
éplucheriez /e.ply.ʃə.ʁje/ |
éplucheraient /e.plyʃ.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 | épluche /e.plyʃ/ |
épluches /e.plyʃ/ |
épluche /e.plyʃ/ |
épluchions /e.ply.ʃjɔ̃/ |
épluchiez /e.ply.ʃje/ |
épluchent /e.plyʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | épluchasse /e.ply.ʃas/ |
épluchasses /e.ply.ʃas/ |
épluchât /e.ply.ʃa/ |
épluchassions /e.ply.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
épluchassiez /e.ply.ʃa.sje/ |
épluchassent /e.ply.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | épluche /e.plyʃ/ |
— | épluchons /e.ply.ʃɔ̃/ |
épluchez /e.ply.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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “éplucher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.