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Action

Fetch

quérir

An older verb meaning fetch or go to get.

From the book

The Gods Are Athirst

Anatole France · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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Meaning

Lemma.

An older verb meaning fetch or go to get. The innkeeper commands Tronche to fetch water. The infinitive survives naturally in an everyday command and belongs to the rural working idiom, not elevated philosophical language; the edition translates it simply as “fetch”.

Places to read

  1. Chapter X, paragraph 48Frenchva quérir de l’eau: Go and fetch some water. An order issued by the innkeeper to the working girl.