Adjective: gauche
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | gauche |
| Singular f. | gauche |
| Plural m. | gauches |
| Plural f. | gauches |
Sample Sentences
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avoir deux mains gauches (to be cack-handed)
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se lever du pied gauche (to get up on the wrong side of bed)
Adjectives inflected like gauche
emblématique,
antipianistique,
vanadique,
électrolysable,
sébacique,
aponévrotique,
fétichiste,
chromosomique,
archéographique,
fiduciaire,
judiciaire,
accusable,
monomyaire,
ontogénétique,
cinématique,
technétronique,
mélangeable,
neuropathique,
neurologique,
panchronique, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From gauchir (“to bend, dodge, warp”), a conflation of Old French gauchier (“to tread”) (from Frankish *walkijan, *walkan, cognate with English walk) + Old French guenchir (“to deviate”) (from Frankish *wenkijan (“to sway, falter”)). Gauche replaced the original Latin-derived word for "left", senestre, in the sixteenth century. Compare Walloon gåtche.
Verbs referencing "gauche"
English Adjectives
gauche, English Adjectives
gallock.
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