plancher

English

Etymology

French planche.

Noun

plancher (plural planchers)

  1. A floor made of wood.
  2. A plank.
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      Elm; [used] some for planchers
  3. (architecture) The underside of a cornice; a soffit.

Verb

plancher (third-person singular simple present planchers, present participle planchering, simple past and past participle planchered)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To form using planks.
    • 1586, Conrad Heresbach, Foure Bookes of Husbandrie:
      your stable be well paved with rounde stone, wel planchered and kept clean

References

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /plɑ̃.ʃe/
  • audio (le plancher)(file)

Etymology 1

From planche.

Noun

plancher m (plural planchers)

  1. floor
  2. lower limit
  3. (anatomy) floor
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From planche.

Verb

plancher

  1. (intransitive) to study something thoroughly, to work hard on something, to brainstorm
    J’ai planché sur le sujet.
    I have made extensive research on the topic.
Conjugation
Conjugation of plancher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple plancher
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple planchant
/plɑ̃.ʃɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle planché
/plɑ̃.ʃe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present planche
/plɑ̃ʃ/		 planches
/plɑ̃ʃ/		 planche
/plɑ̃ʃ/		 planchons
/plɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/		 planchez
/plɑ̃.ʃe/		 planchent
/plɑ̃ʃ/
imperfect planchais
/plɑ̃.ʃɛ/		 planchais
/plɑ̃.ʃɛ/		 planchait
/plɑ̃.ʃɛ/		 planchions
/plɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/		 planchiez
/plɑ̃.ʃje/		 planchaient
/plɑ̃.ʃɛ/
past historic2 planchai
/plɑ̃.ʃe/		 planchas
/plɑ̃.ʃa/		 plancha
/plɑ̃.ʃa/		 planchâmes
/plɑ̃.ʃam/		 planchâtes
/plɑ̃.ʃat/		 planchèrent
/plɑ̃.ʃɛʁ/
future plancherai
/plɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/		 plancheras
/plɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/		 planchera
/plɑ̃ʃ.ʁa/		 plancherons
/plɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/		 plancherez
/plɑ̃ʃ.ʁe/		 plancheront
/plɑ̃ʃ.ʁɔ̃/
conditional plancherais
/plɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/		 plancherais
/plɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/		 plancherait
/plɑ̃ʃ.ʁɛ/		 plancherions
/plɑ̃.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/		 plancheriez
/plɑ̃.ʃə.ʁje/		 plancheraient
/plɑ̃ʃ.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 planche
/plɑ̃ʃ/		 planches
/plɑ̃ʃ/		 planche
/plɑ̃ʃ/		 planchions
/plɑ̃.ʃjɔ̃/		 planchiez
/plɑ̃.ʃje/		 planchent
/plɑ̃ʃ/
imperfect2 planchasse
/plɑ̃.ʃas/		 planchasses
/plɑ̃.ʃas/		 planchât
/plɑ̃.ʃa/		 planchassions
/plɑ̃.ʃa.sjɔ̃/		 planchassiez
/plɑ̃.ʃa.sje/		 planchassent
/plɑ̃.ʃas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — planche
/plɑ̃ʃ/		 — planchons
/plɑ̃.ʃɔ̃/		 planchez
/plɑ̃.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:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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