entacher
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃.ta.ʃe/
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Verb
entacher
- to taint
- (figuratively) to blemish; to besmirch; to mar
- Un scrutin entaché d'irrégularités
- A poll marred by irregularities
- (figuratively) to stain/harm someone's reputation
- Il est temps qu'il cesse d'entacher la réputation du Canada.
- It is time he stopped flushing Canada's reputation down the toilet.
Conjugation
Conjugation of entacher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | entacher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | entachant /ɑ̃.ta.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | entaché /ɑ̃.ta.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | entache /ɑ̃.taʃ/ |
entaches /ɑ̃.taʃ/ |
entache /ɑ̃.taʃ/ |
entachons /ɑ̃.ta.ʃɔ̃/ |
entachez /ɑ̃.ta.ʃe/ |
entachent /ɑ̃.taʃ/ |
| imperfect | entachais /ɑ̃.ta.ʃɛ/ |
entachais /ɑ̃.ta.ʃɛ/ |
entachait /ɑ̃.ta.ʃɛ/ |
entachions /ɑ̃.ta.ʃjɔ̃/ |
entachiez /ɑ̃.ta.ʃje/ |
entachaient /ɑ̃.ta.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | entachai /ɑ̃.ta.ʃe/ |
entachas /ɑ̃.ta.ʃa/ |
entacha /ɑ̃.ta.ʃa/ |
entachâmes /ɑ̃.ta.ʃam/ |
entachâtes /ɑ̃.ta.ʃat/ |
entachèrent /ɑ̃.ta.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | entacherai /ɑ̃.taʃ.ʁe/ |
entacheras /ɑ̃.taʃ.ʁa/ |
entachera /ɑ̃.taʃ.ʁa/ |
entacherons /ɑ̃.taʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
entacherez /ɑ̃.taʃ.ʁe/ |
entacheront /ɑ̃.taʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | entacherais /ɑ̃.taʃ.ʁɛ/ |
entacherais /ɑ̃.taʃ.ʁɛ/ |
entacherait /ɑ̃.taʃ.ʁɛ/ |
entacherions /ɑ̃.ta.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
entacheriez /ɑ̃.ta.ʃə.ʁje/ |
entacheraient /ɑ̃.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 | entache /ɑ̃.taʃ/ |
entaches /ɑ̃.taʃ/ |
entache /ɑ̃.taʃ/ |
entachions /ɑ̃.ta.ʃjɔ̃/ |
entachiez /ɑ̃.ta.ʃje/ |
entachent /ɑ̃.taʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | entachasse /ɑ̃.ta.ʃas/ |
entachasses /ɑ̃.ta.ʃas/ |
entachât /ɑ̃.ta.ʃa/ |
entachassions /ɑ̃.ta.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
entachassiez /ɑ̃.ta.ʃa.sje/ |
entachassent /ɑ̃.ta.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | entache /ɑ̃.taʃ/ |
— | entachons /ɑ̃.ta.ʃɔ̃/ |
entachez /ɑ̃.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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “entacher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.