gauchir

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French gauchir, from Old French gauchir, gauchier, from Frankish *wenkijan and *walkijan, *walkan. By surface analysis, gauche +‎ -ir.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɡo.ʃiʁ/
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Verb

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gauchir

  1. (intransitive) to dodge
  2. (intransitive) to speak or act deceptively
  3. (transitive, intransitive) to warp, buckle, distort, bend
  4. (transitive) to flavour with left-oriented political views

Conjugation

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This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Further reading

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