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embûcher

to make enter its lair; to ambush

Usage

A specialist hunting (vénerie) term meaning to drive a stag or other game back into the woods, to its lair (embûcher un cerf) — from the old sense of bûche as "woods." An older, now rare sense meant to lie in ambush.

Examples
  • Les chiens ont embûché le cerf en fin de matinée. — The hounds drove the stag back into cover by late morning.
  • Le cerf s'est embûché dans un fourré épais. — The stag retreated into a thick covert.
  • Les archers avaient embûché des soldats ennemis au détour du chemin. — The archers had ambushed enemy soldiers at the bend in the path.
Common mistake

A narrow hunting term for driving game back into cover — not a general word for "ambush," which is tendre une embuscade in modern French.

Often confused with embucher.

Simple tenses

Present

jeembûche
tuembûches
il/elleembûche
nousembûchons
vousembûchez
ils/ellesembûchent

Imperfect

jeembûchais
tuembûchais
il/elleembûchait
nousembûchions
vousembûchiez
ils/ellesembûchaient

Past historic (passé simple)

jeembûchai
tuembûchas
il/elleembûcha
nousembûchâmes
vousembûchâtes
ils/ellesembûchèrent

Future

jeembûcherai
tuembûcheras
il/elleembûchera
nousembûcherons
vousembûcherez
ils/ellesembûcheront

Conditional

jeembûcherais
tuembûcherais
il/elleembûcherait
nousembûcherions
vousembûcheriez
ils/ellesembûcheraient

Subjunctive

jeembûche
tuembûches
il/elleembûche
nousembûchions
vousembûchiez
ils/ellesembûchent

Subjunctive (imperfect)

jeembûchasse
tuembûchasses
il/elleembûchât
nousembûchassions
vousembûchassiez
ils/ellesembûchassent

Imperative

tuembûche
nousembûchons
vousembûchez

Compound tenses

Passé composé

jeai embûché
tuas embûché
il/ellea embûché
nousavons embûché
vousavez embûché
ils/ellesont embûché

Plus-que-parfait

jeavais embûché
tuavais embûché
il/elleavait embûché
nousavions embûché
vousaviez embûché
ils/ellesavaient embûché

Passé antérieur

jeeus embûché
tueus embûché
il/elleeut embûché
nouseûmes embûché
vouseûtes embûché
ils/elleseurent embûché

Futur antérieur

jeaurai embûché
tuauras embûché
il/elleaura embûché
nousaurons embûché
vousaurez embûché
ils/ellesauront embûché

Conditionnel passé

jeaurais embûché
tuaurais embûché
il/elleaurait embûché
nousaurions embûché
vousauriez embûché
ils/ellesauraient embûché

Subjonctif passé

jeaie embûché
tuaies embûché
il/elleait embûché
nousayons embûché
vousayez embûché
ils/ellesaient embûché

Subjonctif plus-que-parfait

jeeusse embûché
tueusses embûché
il/elleeût embûché
nouseussions embûché
vouseussiez embûché
ils/elleseussent embûché

Impératif passé

tuaie embûché
nousayons embûché
vousayez embûché

Other

Present participle

embûchant

Past participle

embûché

Infinitive

embûcher

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Frequently asked questions

What does "embûcher" mean?

"embûcher" means "to make enter its lair; to ambush".

How do you conjugate "embûcher" in the present tense?

The present of "embûcher" is: je embûche, tu embûches, il/elle embûche, nous embûchons, vous embûchez, ils/elles embûchent.

What is the Passé composé of "embûcher"?

The passé composé of "embûcher" is: je ai embûché, tu as embûché, il/elle a embûché, nous avons embûché, vous avez embûché, ils/elles ont embûché.

What is the Imperative of "embûcher"?

The imperative of "embûcher" is: tu embûche, nous embûchons, vous embûchez.