dénicher
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.ni.ʃe/
Verb
dénicher
- to scare up
- to hunt out, to track down
- (informal) to dig out, to unearth
Conjugation
Conjugation of dénicher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | dénicher | avoir déniché | |||||
| gerund | en dénichant | en ayant déniché | |||||
| present participle | dénichant /de.ni.ʃɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | déniché /de.ni.ʃe/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | déniche /de.niʃ/ |
déniches /de.niʃ/ |
déniche /de.niʃ/ |
dénichons /de.ni.ʃɔ̃/ |
dénichez /de.ni.ʃe/ |
dénichent /de.niʃ/ |
| imperfect | dénichais /de.ni.ʃɛ/ |
dénichais /de.ni.ʃɛ/ |
dénichait /de.ni.ʃɛ/ |
dénichions /de.ni.ʃjɔ̃/ |
dénichiez /de.ni.ʃje/ |
dénichaient /de.ni.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | dénichai /de.ni.ʃe/ |
dénichas /de.ni.ʃa/ |
dénicha /de.ni.ʃa/ |
dénichâmes /de.ni.ʃam/ |
dénichâtes /de.ni.ʃat/ |
dénichèrent /de.ni.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | dénicherai /de.niʃ.ʁe/ |
dénicheras /de.niʃ.ʁa/ |
dénichera /de.niʃ.ʁa/ |
dénicherons /de.niʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
dénicherez /de.niʃ.ʁe/ |
dénicheront /de.niʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | dénicherais /de.niʃ.ʁɛ/ |
dénicherais /de.niʃ.ʁɛ/ |
dénicherait /de.niʃ.ʁɛ/ |
dénicherions /de.ni.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
dénicheriez /de.ni.ʃə.ʁje/ |
dénicheraient /de.niʃ.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 | déniche /de.niʃ/ |
déniches /de.niʃ/ |
déniche /de.niʃ/ |
dénichions /de.ni.ʃjɔ̃/ |
dénichiez /de.ni.ʃje/ |
dénichent /de.niʃ/ |
| imperfect1 | dénichasse /de.ni.ʃas/ |
dénichasses /de.ni.ʃas/ |
dénichât /de.ni.ʃa/ |
dénichassions /de.ni.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
dénichassiez /de.ni.ʃa.sje/ |
dénichassent /de.ni.ʃas/ | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | déniche /de.niʃ/ |
— | dénichons /de.ni.ʃɔ̃/ |
dénichez /de.ni.ʃe/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Further reading
- “dénicher” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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