tâche

Inherited from Old French tasche, from Early Medieval Latin tasca, variant of taxa, from Latin taxō (“to handle, appraise”), from tangō (“to touch”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-, cognate with Ancient Greek τάσσω (tássō, “to organise, arrange”).

• IPA^(key): /taʃ/, /tɑʃ/

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• Homophone: tache (some speakers)

tâche f (plural tâches)

1. task

• à la tâche
• multitâche

tâche

1. inflection of tâcher:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “tâche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.