prêcher
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French prëechier, from Latin praedicāre.
See cognates in regional languages in France : Norman prêchi, Gallo préchier, Picard prêcher, Bourguignon prôchai, Franco-Provençal prègiér, Occitan presicar or predicar, Corsican predicà.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʁɛ.ʃe/, /pʁe.ʃe/
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Verb
prêcher
- (transitive) to preach
- prêcher la Bonne Nouvelle ― to preach the Good News
- 1902, Boylesve, Leçon d'amour:
- Ninon fut si bien prêchée qu’elle était en proie à une infinité de scrupules touchant la manière d’élever sa progéniture.
- Ninon was so well preached to that she was plagued by infinite scruples about how to bring up her offspring.
- (transitive) to advocate moral values, political ideas
- prêcher le bien ― to preach good values
- prêcher le mal ― to preach evil
- prêcher le communisme ― to advocate communism
- (transitive) to lecture someone about what is good or bad
Conjugation
Conjugation of prêcher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | prêcher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | prêchant /pʁɛ.ʃɑ̃/ or /pʁe.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | prêché /pʁɛ.ʃe/ or /pʁe.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | prêche /pʁɛʃ/ |
prêches /pʁɛʃ/ |
prêche /pʁɛʃ/ |
prêchons /pʁɛ.ʃɔ̃/ or /pʁe.ʃɔ̃/ |
prêchez /pʁɛ.ʃe/ or /pʁe.ʃe/ |
prêchent /pʁɛʃ/ |
| imperfect | prêchais /pʁɛ.ʃɛ/ or /pʁe.ʃɛ/ |
prêchais /pʁɛ.ʃɛ/ or /pʁe.ʃɛ/ |
prêchait /pʁɛ.ʃɛ/ or /pʁe.ʃɛ/ |
prêchions /pʁɛ.ʃjɔ̃/ or /pʁe.ʃjɔ̃/ |
prêchiez /pʁɛ.ʃje/ or /pʁe.ʃje/ |
prêchaient /pʁɛ.ʃɛ/ or /pʁe.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | prêchai /pʁɛ.ʃe/ or /pʁe.ʃe/ |
prêchas /pʁɛ.ʃa/ or /pʁe.ʃa/ |
prêcha /pʁɛ.ʃa/ or /pʁe.ʃa/ |
prêchâmes /pʁɛ.ʃam/ or /pʁe.ʃam/ |
prêchâtes /pʁɛ.ʃat/ or /pʁe.ʃat/ |
prêchèrent /pʁɛ.ʃɛʁ/ or /pʁe.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | prêcherai /pʁɛʃ.ʁe/ |
prêcheras /pʁɛʃ.ʁa/ |
prêchera /pʁɛʃ.ʁa/ |
prêcherons /pʁɛʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
prêcherez /pʁɛʃ.ʁe/ |
prêcheront /pʁɛʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | prêcherais /pʁɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
prêcherais /pʁɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
prêcherait /pʁɛʃ.ʁɛ/ |
prêcherions /pʁɛ.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /pʁe.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
prêcheriez /pʁɛ.ʃə.ʁje/ or /pʁe.ʃə.ʁje/ |
prêcheraient /pʁɛʃ.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 | prêche /pʁɛʃ/ |
prêches /pʁɛʃ/ |
prêche /pʁɛʃ/ |
prêchions /pʁɛ.ʃjɔ̃/ or /pʁe.ʃjɔ̃/ |
prêchiez /pʁɛ.ʃje/ or /pʁe.ʃje/ |
prêchent /pʁɛʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | prêchasse /pʁɛ.ʃas/ or /pʁe.ʃas/ |
prêchasses /pʁɛ.ʃas/ or /pʁe.ʃas/ |
prêchât /pʁɛ.ʃa/ or /pʁe.ʃa/ |
prêchassions /pʁɛ.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ or /pʁe.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
prêchassiez /pʁɛ.ʃa.sje/ or /pʁe.ʃa.sje/ |
prêchassent /pʁɛ.ʃas/ or /pʁe.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | prêche /pʁɛʃ/ |
— | prêchons /pʁɛ.ʃɔ̃/ or /pʁe.ʃɔ̃/ |
prêchez /pʁɛ.ʃe/ or /pʁe.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). | |||||||
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Further reading
- “prêcher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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