trébucher
See also: trebucher
French
Etymology
From Middle French trebucher, from Old French trebuchier (“to overthrow, topple”), from tres- + *buchier, from Old French buc (“trunk of the body”), from Old Frankish *būk (“belly, trunk, torso”), from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, abdomen, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw- (“to blow, swell”). Cognate with Old High German būh (“belly”), Old English būc (“belly, trunk”). More at bouk.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁe.by.ʃe/
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Verb
trébucher
Conjugation
Conjugation of trébucher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | trébucher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | trébuchant /tʁe.by.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | trébuché /tʁe.by.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | trébuche /tʁe.byʃ/ |
trébuches /tʁe.byʃ/ |
trébuche /tʁe.byʃ/ |
trébuchons /tʁe.by.ʃɔ̃/ |
trébuchez /tʁe.by.ʃe/ |
trébuchent /tʁe.byʃ/ |
| imperfect | trébuchais /tʁe.by.ʃɛ/ |
trébuchais /tʁe.by.ʃɛ/ |
trébuchait /tʁe.by.ʃɛ/ |
trébuchions /tʁe.by.ʃjɔ̃/ |
trébuchiez /tʁe.by.ʃje/ |
trébuchaient /tʁe.by.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | trébuchai /tʁe.by.ʃe/ |
trébuchas /tʁe.by.ʃa/ |
trébucha /tʁe.by.ʃa/ |
trébuchâmes /tʁe.by.ʃam/ |
trébuchâtes /tʁe.by.ʃat/ |
trébuchèrent /tʁe.by.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | trébucherai /tʁe.byʃ.ʁe/ |
trébucheras /tʁe.byʃ.ʁa/ |
trébuchera /tʁe.byʃ.ʁa/ |
trébucherons /tʁe.byʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
trébucherez /tʁe.byʃ.ʁe/ |
trébucheront /tʁe.byʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | trébucherais /tʁe.byʃ.ʁɛ/ |
trébucherais /tʁe.byʃ.ʁɛ/ |
trébucherait /tʁe.byʃ.ʁɛ/ |
trébucherions /tʁe.by.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
trébucheriez /tʁe.by.ʃə.ʁje/ |
trébucheraient /tʁe.byʃ.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 | trébuche /tʁe.byʃ/ |
trébuches /tʁe.byʃ/ |
trébuche /tʁe.byʃ/ |
trébuchions /tʁe.by.ʃjɔ̃/ |
trébuchiez /tʁe.by.ʃje/ |
trébuchent /tʁe.byʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | trébuchasse /tʁe.by.ʃas/ |
trébuchasses /tʁe.by.ʃas/ |
trébuchât /tʁe.by.ʃa/ |
trébuchassions /tʁe.by.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
trébuchassiez /tʁe.by.ʃa.sje/ |
trébuchassent /tʁe.by.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | trébuche /tʁe.byʃ/ |
— | trébuchons /tʁe.by.ʃɔ̃/ |
trébuchez /tʁe.by.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
- “trébucher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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