échoir
French
Etymology
From Old French escheoir, from a Vulgar Latin or Late Latin root *excadēre, alteration of Latin excidere, based on ex + cadere. Compare Italian scadere, Romanian scădea, Spanish escaecer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.ʃwaʁ/
- Rhymes: -waʁ
Verb
échoir
- (intransitive) to befall, to happen by chance
- Cela lui est échu en partage.
- It fell to his lot.
- Cela lui est échu en partage.
- (intransitive, law, obsolete) to become necessary (only used in the phrase le cas échéant)
- (intransitive, of an invoice) to become payable, to be due
- Le mode de facturation est à terme échu, car le calcul est basé sur l'utilisation mensuelle.
- The invoicing is presented in arrears, since the calculation is based on the monthly usage.
- Le mode de facturation est à terme échu, car le calcul est basé sur l'utilisation mensuelle.
Conjugation
This verb is defective and is only conjugated in the third-person. This verb is impersonal and is conjugated only in the third-person singular.
Conjugation of échoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | échoir | avoir échu | |||||
| gerund | en échéant | en ayant échu | |||||
| present participle | échéant /e.ʃe.ɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | échu /e.ʃy/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | — | — | échoit or échet /e.ʃwa/ or /e.ʃɛ/ |
— | — | — |
| imperfect | — | — | échoyait /e.ʃwa.jɛ/ |
— | — | — | |
| past historic1 | — | — | échut /e.ʃy/ |
— | — | — | |
| future | — | — | échoira /e.ʃwa.ʁa/ |
— | — | — | |
| conditional | — | — | échoirait /e.ʃwa.ʁɛ/ |
— | — | — | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | — | — | échoie /e.ʃwa/ |
— | — | — |
| imperfect1 | — | — | échût /e.ʃy/ |
— | — | — | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “échoir” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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