pâtisser
French
Etymology
From Old French pasticier (“make pâté, make pastry”), from an unattested noun *pastitz (compare Old Occitan pastis, pastitz, Italian pasticcio), from a Vulgar Latin *pastīcius,[1] from Late Latin pasta (“paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “salted”), from πάσσω (pássō, “sprinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kuh₁tyé- (whence Latin quatiō), from *(s)kweh₁t- (“shake, jostle”).[2] Morphological doublet of pasticher.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.ti.se/, /pɑ.ti.se/
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Verb
pâtisser
- (intransitive) to make pastry
- (transitive, of cakes and pastry) to bake something
Conjugation
Conjugation of pâtisser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | pâtisser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | pâtissant /pa.ti.sɑ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pâtissé /pa.ti.se/ or /pɑ.ti.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | pâtisse /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/ | pâtisses /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/ | pâtisse /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/ | pâtissons /pa.ti.sɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sɔ̃/ | pâtissez /pa.ti.se/ or /pɑ.ti.se/ | pâtissent /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/ |
| imperfect | pâtissais /pa.ti.sɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.sɛ/ | pâtissais /pa.ti.sɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.sɛ/ | pâtissait /pa.ti.sɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.sɛ/ | pâtissions /pa.ti.sjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sjɔ̃/ | pâtissiez /pa.ti.sje/ or /pɑ.ti.sje/ | pâtissaient /pa.ti.sɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | pâtissai /pa.ti.se/ or /pɑ.ti.se/ | pâtissas /pa.ti.sa/ or /pɑ.ti.sa/ | pâtissa /pa.ti.sa/ or /pɑ.ti.sa/ | pâtissâmes /pa.ti.sam/ or /pɑ.ti.sam/ | pâtissâtes /pa.ti.sat/ or /pɑ.ti.sat/ | pâtissèrent /pa.ti.sɛʁ/ or /pɑ.ti.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | pâtisserai /pa.ti.sʁe/ or /pɑ.ti.sʁe/ | pâtisseras /pa.ti.sʁa/ or /pɑ.ti.sʁa/ | pâtissera /pa.ti.sʁa/ or /pɑ.ti.sʁa/ | pâtisserons /pa.ti.sʁɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sʁɔ̃/ | pâtisserez /pa.ti.sʁe/ or /pɑ.ti.sʁe/ | pâtisseront /pa.ti.sʁɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pâtisserais /pa.ti.sʁɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.sʁɛ/ | pâtisserais /pa.ti.sʁɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.sʁɛ/ | pâtisserait /pa.ti.sʁɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.sʁɛ/ | pâtisserions /pa.ti.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ | pâtisseriez /pa.ti.sə.ʁje/ or /pɑ.ti.sə.ʁje/ | pâtisseraient /pa.ti.sʁɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.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 | pâtisse /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/ | pâtisses /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/ | pâtisse /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/ | pâtissions /pa.ti.sjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sjɔ̃/ | pâtissiez /pa.ti.sje/ or /pɑ.ti.sje/ | pâtissent /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/ |
| imperfect2 | pâtissasse /pa.ti.sas/ or /pɑ.ti.sas/ | pâtissasses /pa.ti.sas/ or /pɑ.ti.sas/ | pâtissât /pa.ti.sa/ or /pɑ.ti.sa/ | pâtissassions /pa.ti.sa.sjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sa.sjɔ̃/ | pâtissassiez /pa.ti.sa.sje/ or /pɑ.ti.sa.sje/ | pâtissassent /pa.ti.sas/ or /pɑ.ti.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pâtisse /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/ | — | pâtissons /pa.ti.sɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sɔ̃/ | pâtissez /pa.ti.se/ or /pɑ.ti.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
- pâtisserie
- pâtissier
Related terms
- pâte
- pastis
- pastiche
References
- “pâtisser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Rix, Helmut, editor (2001) Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 563-564