pêcher

See also: pecher and pécher

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɛ.ʃe/ ~ /pe.ʃe/
Audio (France): (file)
Homophone: pécher

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French peschier, from Latin piscārī.

Verb

pêcher

to fish

Conjugation

Conjugation of pêcher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	pêcher
present participle or gerund¹	simple	pêchant /pɛ.ʃɑ̃/ or /pe.ʃɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pêché /pɛ.ʃe/ or /pe.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pêche /pɛʃ/	pêches /pɛʃ/	pêche /pɛʃ/	pêchons /pɛ.ʃɔ̃/ or /pe.ʃɔ̃/	pêchez /pɛ.ʃe/ or /pe.ʃe/	pêchent /pɛʃ/
	imperfect	pêchais /pɛ.ʃɛ/ or /pe.ʃɛ/	pêchais /pɛ.ʃɛ/ or /pe.ʃɛ/	pêchait /pɛ.ʃɛ/ or /pe.ʃɛ/	pêchions /pɛ.ʃjɔ̃/ or /pe.ʃjɔ̃/	pêchiez /pɛ.ʃje/ or /pe.ʃje/	pêchaient /pɛ.ʃɛ/ or /pe.ʃɛ/
	past historic²	pêchai /pɛ.ʃe/ or /pe.ʃe/	pêchas /pɛ.ʃa/ or /pe.ʃa/	pêcha /pɛ.ʃa/ or /pe.ʃa/	pêchâmes /pɛ.ʃam/ or /pe.ʃam/	pêchâtes /pɛ.ʃat/ or /pe.ʃat/	pêchèrent /pɛ.ʃɛʁ/ or /pe.ʃɛʁ/
	future	pêcherai /pɛʃ.ʁe/	pêcheras /pɛʃ.ʁa/	pêchera /pɛʃ.ʁa/	pêcherons /pɛʃ.ʁɔ̃/	pêcherez /pɛʃ.ʁe/	pêcheront /pɛʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pêcherais /pɛʃ.ʁɛ/	pêcherais /pɛʃ.ʁɛ/	pêcherait /pɛʃ.ʁɛ/	pêcherions /pɛ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /pe.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	pêcheriez /pɛ.ʃə.ʁje/ or /pe.ʃə.ʁje/	pêcheraient /pɛʃ.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	pêche /pɛʃ/	pêches /pɛʃ/	pêche /pɛʃ/	pêchions /pɛ.ʃjɔ̃/ or /pe.ʃjɔ̃/	pêchiez /pɛ.ʃje/ or /pe.ʃje/	pêchent /pɛʃ/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	pêchasse /pɛ.ʃas/ or /pe.ʃas/	pêchasses /pɛ.ʃas/ or /pe.ʃas/	pêchât /pɛ.ʃa/ or /pe.ʃa/	pêchassions /pɛ.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ or /pe.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	pêchassiez /pɛ.ʃa.sje/ or /pe.ʃa.sje/	pêchassent /pɛ.ʃas/ or /pe.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	pêche /pɛʃ/	—	pêchons /pɛ.ʃɔ̃/ or /pe.ʃɔ̃/	pêchez /pɛ.ʃe/ or /pe.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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).