chercherai

Chercherai is the first-person singular future simple form of the French verb chercher, meaning to search or to look for. In ordinary use, the form appears as part of the two-word phrase je chercherai, which translates to I will search or I shall search. The standalone sequence chercherai is not treated as a separate word in standard dictionaries; it is the verb stem plus the future ending that corresponds to the subject je.

Etymology and morphology: chercher comes from Old French cherchier, ultimately derived from Latin quaerere, meaning to seek. The future tense in French for -er verbs adds the ending -ai to the infinitive stem, yielding chercherai for je. This pattern applies across all persons with the respective endings, resulting in je chercherai, tu chercheras, il cherchera, nous chercherons, vous chercherez, ils chercheront.

Usage: The form is used to express a future action of searching. Examples include: Demain, je chercherai mes clés. and Si j’ai une piste, je chercherai des solutions tout de suite. In question form, formal inversion can produce Chercherai-je un indice ?, though such inversion is relatively formal or literary and less common in everyday speech.

Notes: In lexicographical practice, chercherai is treated as a finite conjugated form of the lemma chercher rather than a separate lexical entry. The term is primarily of interest to learners and linguists examining French verb conjugation and tense formation.