fracasser
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian fracassare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fʁa.ka.se/
fracasser (file)
Verb
fracasser
- to smash (to break violently)
Conjugation
Conjugation of fracasser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | fracasser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | fracassant /fʁa.ka.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | fracassé /fʁa.ka.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | fracasse /fʁa.kas/ | fracasses /fʁa.kas/ | fracasse /fʁa.kas/ | fracassons /fʁa.ka.sɔ̃/ | fracassez /fʁa.ka.se/ | fracassent /fʁa.kas/ |
| imperfect | fracassais /fʁa.ka.sɛ/ | fracassais /fʁa.ka.sɛ/ | fracassait /fʁa.ka.sɛ/ | fracassions /fʁa.ka.sjɔ̃/ | fracassiez /fʁa.ka.sje/ | fracassaient /fʁa.ka.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | fracassai /fʁa.ka.se/ | fracassas /fʁa.ka.sa/ | fracassa /fʁa.ka.sa/ | fracassâmes /fʁa.ka.sam/ | fracassâtes /fʁa.ka.sat/ | fracassèrent /fʁa.ka.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | fracasserai /fʁa.ka.sʁe/ | fracasseras /fʁa.ka.sʁa/ | fracassera /fʁa.ka.sʁa/ | fracasserons /fʁa.ka.sʁɔ̃/ | fracasserez /fʁa.ka.sʁe/ | fracasseront /fʁa.ka.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | fracasserais /fʁa.ka.sʁɛ/ | fracasserais /fʁa.ka.sʁɛ/ | fracasserait /fʁa.ka.sʁɛ/ | fracasserions /fʁa.ka.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ | fracasseriez /fʁa.ka.sə.ʁje/ | fracasseraient /fʁa.ka.sʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | fracasse /fʁa.kas/ | fracasses /fʁa.kas/ | fracasse /fʁa.kas/ | fracassions /fʁa.ka.sjɔ̃/ | fracassiez /fʁa.ka.sje/ | fracassent /fʁa.kas/ |
| imperfect2 | fracassasse /fʁa.ka.sas/ | fracassasses /fʁa.ka.sas/ | fracassât /fʁa.ka.sa/ | fracassassions /fʁa.ka.sa.sjɔ̃/ | fracassassiez /fʁa.ka.sa.sje/ | fracassassent /fʁa.ka.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | fracasse /fʁa.kas/ | — | fracassons /fʁa.ka.sɔ̃/ | fracassez /fʁa.ka.se/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
- fracas
Further reading
- “fracasser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Bratchet, A. (1873), “fracasser”, in , Kitchin, G. W., transl., Etymological dictionary of the French language (Clarendon Press Series), 1st edition, London: Oxford/MacMillan and Co.