trancher

Inherited from Old French trenchier. Compare Catalan trencar, Italian trinciare, and Spanish truncar.

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃.ʃe/

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trancher

1. (transitive) to slice, to cut into slices
2. (transitive, literary) to complete, conclude

   Il a tranché ses jours.

   He has concluded his days on earth.

3. (transitive, figurative) to decide, to settle, to address
4. (intransitive) to rule, make a ruling, come to a decision
   • 2024 July 8, Jordan Bardella, quotee, “Le coup de massue pour l'extrême droite”, in La Provence, sourced from AFP, page 3:

     “Le Rassemblement national incarne plus que jamais la seule alternative”, a tranché Jordan Bardella.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

5. (intransitive, derogatory, with de) to behave or comport oneself (as if one were)

   Le comte trancha du grand seigneur.

   The count comported himself as if he were God Almighty.

6. (intransitive, with avec, sur) to contrast (with), stand out (against)
7. (intransitive, with dans) to stand out (in)

• trancher le nœud gordien

• retrancher
• tranche
• tranchoir

• → German: tranchieren, transchieren
  • → Russian: транжи́рить (tranžíritʹ)
• → Portuguese: trinchar

• couper
• tailler

• “trancher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French trenchier.

trancher

1. to cut off (remove by cutting)

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• French: trancher