repêcher
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.pɛ.ʃe/ ~ /ʁə.pe.ʃe/
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Verb
repêcher
- to fish out, rescue (from water)
- 2015 October 31, “Migrants : Allemagne restreint les accès à sa frontière avec Autriche”, in Le Monde[1]:
- Par ailleurs, quatre enfants syriens âgés d’un à quatre ans ont été repêchés morts dans les eaux turques par les garde-côtes, qui ont sauvé 19 passagers eux aussi en route pour Lesbos, selon l’agence de presse Dogan.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of repêcher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | repêcher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | repêchant /ʁə.pɛ.ʃɑ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | repêché /ʁə.pɛ.ʃe/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | repêche /ʁə.pɛʃ/ |
repêches /ʁə.pɛʃ/ |
repêche /ʁə.pɛʃ/ |
repêchons /ʁə.pɛ.ʃɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃɔ̃/ |
repêchez /ʁə.pɛ.ʃe/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃe/ |
repêchent /ʁə.pɛʃ/ |
| imperfect | repêchais /ʁə.pɛ.ʃɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃɛ/ |
repêchais /ʁə.pɛ.ʃɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃɛ/ |
repêchait /ʁə.pɛ.ʃɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃɛ/ |
repêchions /ʁə.pɛ.ʃjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃjɔ̃/ |
repêchiez /ʁə.pɛ.ʃje/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃje/ |
repêchaient /ʁə.pɛ.ʃɛ/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | repêchai /ʁə.pɛ.ʃe/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃe/ |
repêchas /ʁə.pɛ.ʃa/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃa/ |
repêcha /ʁə.pɛ.ʃa/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃa/ |
repêchâmes /ʁə.pɛ.ʃam/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃam/ |
repêchâtes /ʁə.pɛ.ʃat/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃat/ |
repêchèrent /ʁə.pɛ.ʃɛʁ/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | repêcherai /ʁə.pɛʃ.ʁe/ |
repêcheras /ʁə.pɛʃ.ʁa/ |
repêchera /ʁə.pɛʃ.ʁa/ |
repêcherons /ʁə.pɛʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
repêcherez /ʁə.pɛʃ.ʁe/ |
repêcheront /ʁə.pɛʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | repêcherais /ʁə.pɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
repêcherais /ʁə.pɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
repêcherait /ʁə.pɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
repêcherions /ʁə.pɛ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
repêcheriez /ʁə.pɛ.ʃə.ʁje/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃə.ʁje/ |
repêcheraient /ʁə.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 | repêche /ʁə.pɛʃ/ |
repêches /ʁə.pɛʃ/ |
repêche /ʁə.pɛʃ/ |
repêchions /ʁə.pɛ.ʃjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃjɔ̃/ |
repêchiez /ʁə.pɛ.ʃje/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃje/ |
repêchent /ʁə.pɛʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | repêchasse /ʁə.pɛ.ʃas/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃas/ |
repêchasses /ʁə.pɛ.ʃas/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃas/ |
repêchât /ʁə.pɛ.ʃa/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃa/ |
repêchassions /ʁə.pɛ.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
repêchassiez /ʁə.pɛ.ʃa.sje/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃa.sje/ |
repêchassent /ʁə.pɛ.ʃas/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | repêche /ʁə.pɛʃ/ |
— | repêchons /ʁə.pɛ.ʃɔ̃/ or /ʁə.pe.ʃɔ̃/ |
repêchez /ʁə.pɛ.ʃe/ or /ʁə.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “repêcher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.