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féticher

French, verb/fe.ti.ʃe/

féticher is a French verb meaning “to enchant by magic; to cast a spell” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Agir par magie sur (quelqu’un)”.

What does féticher mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to enchant by magic; to cast a spell

    Tu pars chez une personne qui sait «féticher» l'éléphant.

  2. 2

    to practice fetishism

    Tu sais, il y a des musulmans qui ne fétichent pas, et des chrétiens qui fétichent. La religion n'est pas l'essentiel.

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Agir par magie sur (quelqu’un).

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of féticher

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • fétichant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • fétiché participle past
  • fétiche first-person indicative present
  • fétiches indicative present second-person
  • fétichons first-person indicative plural
  • fétichez indicative plural present
  • fétichent indicative plural present
  • fétichais first-person imperfect indicative
  • fétichait imperfect indicative singular
  • fétichions first-person imperfect indicative
  • fétichiez imperfect indicative plural
  • fétichaient imperfect indicative plural
  • fétichai first-person historic indicative
  • fétichas historic indicative past
  • féticha historic indicative past
  • fétichâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce féticher?

  • /fe.ti.ʃe/
  • \fe.ti.ʃe\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.