harnacher
French
Etymology
From harnais (“harness”).
Pronunciation
Verb
harnacher
- (transitive) to harness
- (informal) to equip or dress up ridiculously
- Jonathan Zaccaï (Downton Abbey 2) :"J’avais peur de gaver Elisabeth McGovern avec mon admiration", Paris Match Belgique (21 April 2022)
- Rien que ça, c'est du délire. Il y avait quelqu'un qui passait en revue tous les boutons de mon costume avant chaque scène. Les plastrons, les manchettes, j'étais vraiment harnaché ! Le style est très posé dans « Downton Abbey », très british. Il ne faut surtout pas trop bouger. Et comme je suis un mec assez nerveux, on m'indiquait de me contenir, d'adopter une certaine raideur, fortement aidée par la rigidité du costume.
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- Jonathan Zaccaï (Downton Abbey 2) :"J’avais peur de gaver Elisabeth McGovern avec mon admiration", Paris Match Belgique (21 April 2022)
Conjugation
Conjugation of harnacher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | harnacher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | harnachant /aʁ.na.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | harnaché /aʁ.na.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | harnache /aʁ.naʃ/ |
harnaches /aʁ.naʃ/ |
harnache /aʁ.naʃ/ |
harnachons /aʁ.na.ʃɔ̃/ |
harnachez /aʁ.na.ʃe/ |
harnachent /aʁ.naʃ/ |
| imperfect | harnachais /aʁ.na.ʃɛ/ |
harnachais /aʁ.na.ʃɛ/ |
harnachait /aʁ.na.ʃɛ/ |
harnachions /aʁ.na.ʃjɔ̃/ |
harnachiez /aʁ.na.ʃje/ |
harnachaient /aʁ.na.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | harnachai /aʁ.na.ʃe/ |
harnachas /aʁ.na.ʃa/ |
harnacha /aʁ.na.ʃa/ |
harnachâmes /aʁ.na.ʃam/ |
harnachâtes /aʁ.na.ʃat/ |
harnachèrent /aʁ.na.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | harnacherai /aʁ.naʃ.ʁe/ |
harnacheras /aʁ.naʃ.ʁa/ |
harnachera /aʁ.naʃ.ʁa/ |
harnacherons /aʁ.naʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
harnacherez /aʁ.naʃ.ʁe/ |
harnacheront /aʁ.naʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | harnacherais /aʁ.naʃ.ʁɛ/ |
harnacherais /aʁ.naʃ.ʁɛ/ |
harnacherait /aʁ.naʃ.ʁɛ/ |
harnacherions /aʁ.na.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
harnacheriez /aʁ.na.ʃə.ʁje/ |
harnacheraient /aʁ.naʃ.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 | harnache /aʁ.naʃ/ |
harnaches /aʁ.naʃ/ |
harnache /aʁ.naʃ/ |
harnachions /aʁ.na.ʃjɔ̃/ |
harnachiez /aʁ.na.ʃje/ |
harnachent /aʁ.naʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | harnachasse /aʁ.na.ʃas/ |
harnachasses /aʁ.na.ʃas/ |
harnachât /aʁ.na.ʃa/ |
harnachassions /aʁ.na.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
harnachassiez /aʁ.na.ʃa.sje/ |
harnachassent /aʁ.na.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | harnache /aʁ.naʃ/ |
— | harnachons /aʁ.na.ʃɔ̃/ |
harnachez /aʁ.na.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). | |||||||
Related terms
- enharnacher
- harnachement
- réharnacher
- arnaquer
Further reading
- “harnacher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.