sécher

See also: secher

French

Etymology

From Old French secher, sechier, from Latin siccāre, present active infinitive of siccō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /se.ʃe/
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Verb

sécher

  1. (ergative) to dry
  2. to play truant
  3. (intransitive, informal) to dry up, to run out of things to say
  4. to fail

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’), with the latter being used before mute ‘e’. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written sécher-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written sècher-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.

  Conjugation of sécher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive sécher avoir séché
gerund en séchant en ayant séché
present participle séchant
/se.ʃɑ̃/
past participle séché
/se.ʃe/
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il nous vous ils
simple
tenses		 present sèche
/sɛʃ/		 sèches
/sɛʃ/		 sèche
/sɛʃ/		 séchons
/se.ʃɔ̃/		 séchez
/se.ʃe/		 sèchent
/sɛʃ/
imperfect séchais
/se.ʃɛ/		 séchais
/se.ʃɛ/		 séchait
/se.ʃɛ/		 séchions
/se.ʃjɔ̃/		 séchiez
/se.ʃje/		 séchaient
/se.ʃɛ/
past historic1 séchai
/se.ʃe/		 séchas
/se.ʃa/		 sécha
/se.ʃa/		 séchâmes
/se.ʃam/		 séchâtes
/se.ʃat/		 séchèrent
/se.ʃɛʁ/
future sècherai or sécherai
/sɛʃ.ʁe/		 sècheras or sécheras
/sɛʃ.ʁa/		 sèchera or séchera
/sɛʃ.ʁa/		 sècherons or sécherons
/sɛʃ.ʁɔ̃/		 sècherez or sécherez
/sɛʃ.ʁe/		 sècheront or sécheront
/sɛʃ.ʁɔ̃/
conditional sècherais or sécherais
/sɛʃ.ʁɛ/		 sècherais or sécherais
/sɛʃ.ʁɛ/		 sècherait or sécherait
/sɛʃ.ʁɛ/		 sècherions or sécherions
/sɛ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/		 sècheriez or sécheriez
/sɛ.ʃə.ʁje/		 sècheraient or sécheraient
/sɛʃ.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 sèche
/sɛʃ/		 sèches
/sɛʃ/		 sèche
/sɛʃ/		 séchions
/se.ʃjɔ̃/		 séchiez
/se.ʃje/		 sèchent
/sɛʃ/
imperfect1 séchasse
/se.ʃas/		 séchasses
/se.ʃas/		 séchât
/se.ʃa/		 séchassions
/se.ʃa.sjɔ̃/		 séchassiez
/se.ʃa.sje/		 séchassent
/se.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 –
— sèche
/sɛʃ/		 — séchons
/se.ʃɔ̃/		 séchez
/se.ʃe/		 —
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Etymology

From Old High German sichur, from Latin sēcūrus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzəɕɐ/

Adjective

sécher (masculine sécheren, neuter séchert, comparative méi sécher, superlative am séchersten)

  1. sure, certain, confident
  2. safe, secure

Declension

Adverb

sécher

  1. surely, certainly
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