féticher
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fe.ti.ʃe/
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Verb
féticher
- (Africa) to enchant by magic; to cast a spell
- Synonyms: envouter, marabouter
- Tu pars chez une personne qui sait «féticher» l’éléphant.
- You're going to visit someone who can "enchant" an elephant.
- (religion) to practice fetishism
- Tu sais, il y a des musulmans qui ne fétichent pas, et des chrétiens qui fétichent. La religion n’est pas l’essentiel.
- You know, there are Muslims who do not practice fetishism and Christians who do. The religion is not the important thing.
Conjugation
Conjugation of féticher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | féticher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | fétichant /fe.ti.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | fétiché /fe.ti.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | fétiche /fe.tiʃ/ |
fétiches /fe.tiʃ/ |
fétiche /fe.tiʃ/ |
fétichons /fe.ti.ʃɔ̃/ |
fétichez /fe.ti.ʃe/ |
fétichent /fe.tiʃ/ |
| imperfect | fétichais /fe.ti.ʃɛ/ |
fétichais /fe.ti.ʃɛ/ |
fétichait /fe.ti.ʃɛ/ |
fétichions /fe.ti.ʃjɔ̃/ |
fétichiez /fe.ti.ʃje/ |
fétichaient /fe.ti.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | fétichai /fe.ti.ʃe/ |
fétichas /fe.ti.ʃa/ |
féticha /fe.ti.ʃa/ |
fétichâmes /fe.ti.ʃam/ |
fétichâtes /fe.ti.ʃat/ |
fétichèrent /fe.ti.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | féticherai /fe.tiʃ.ʁe/ |
féticheras /fe.tiʃ.ʁa/ |
fétichera /fe.tiʃ.ʁa/ |
féticherons /fe.tiʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
féticherez /fe.tiʃ.ʁe/ |
féticheront /fe.tiʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | féticherais /fe.tiʃ.ʁɛ/ |
féticherais /fe.tiʃ.ʁɛ/ |
féticherait /fe.tiʃ.ʁɛ/ |
féticherions /fe.ti.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
féticheriez /fe.ti.ʃə.ʁje/ |
féticheraient /fe.tiʃ.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 | fétiche /fe.tiʃ/ |
fétiches /fe.tiʃ/ |
fétiche /fe.tiʃ/ |
fétichions /fe.ti.ʃjɔ̃/ |
fétichiez /fe.ti.ʃje/ |
fétichent /fe.tiʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | fétichasse /fe.ti.ʃas/ |
fétichasses /fe.ti.ʃas/ |
fétichât /fe.ti.ʃa/ |
fétichassions /fe.ti.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
fétichassiez /fe.ti.ʃa.sje/ |
fétichassent /fe.ti.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | fétiche /fe.tiʃ/ |
— | fétichons /fe.ti.ʃɔ̃/ |
fétichez /fe.ti.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
- féticheur
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