sabrer
See also: sâbrer
French
Etymology
sabre + -er
Pronunciation
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Verb
sabrer
- (transitive) to slash with a sabre
- Les cavaliers sabrèrent les servants de cette batterie.
- The horsemen cut down the gunners of the artillery battery.
- Sabrer à droite et à gauche.
- To slash left and right.
- (figuratively) to remove large sections from a text while editing it, to axe
- Sabrer de longues tirades.
- To axe the pointless monologues.
- Open a bottle, usually champagne, with a slice from a sword
- Ils ont sabré le champagne.
Conjugation
Conjugation of sabrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | sabrer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | sabrant /sa.bʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | sabré /sa.bʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | sabre /sabʁ/ | sabres /sabʁ/ | sabre /sabʁ/ | sabrons /sa.bʁɔ̃/ | sabrez /sa.bʁe/ | sabrent /sabʁ/ |
| imperfect | sabrais /sa.bʁɛ/ | sabrais /sa.bʁɛ/ | sabrait /sa.bʁɛ/ | sabrions /sa.bʁi.jɔ̃/ | sabriez /sa.bʁi.je/ | sabraient /sa.bʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | sabrai /sa.bʁe/ | sabras /sa.bʁa/ | sabra /sa.bʁa/ | sabrâmes /sa.bʁam/ | sabrâtes /sa.bʁat/ | sabrèrent /sa.bʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | sabrerai /sa.bʁə.ʁe/ | sabreras /sa.bʁə.ʁa/ | sabrera /sa.bʁə.ʁa/ | sabrerons /sa.bʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | sabrerez /sa.bʁə.ʁe/ | sabreront /sa.bʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | sabrerais /sa.bʁə.ʁɛ/ | sabrerais /sa.bʁə.ʁɛ/ | sabrerait /sa.bʁə.ʁɛ/ | sabrerions /sa.bʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ | sabreriez /sa.bʁə.ʁje/ | sabreraient /sa.bʁə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | sabre /sabʁ/ | sabres /sabʁ/ | sabre /sabʁ/ | sabrions /sa.bʁi.jɔ̃/ | sabriez /sa.bʁi.je/ | sabrent /sabʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | sabrasse /sa.bʁas/ | sabrasses /sa.bʁas/ | sabrât /sa.bʁa/ | sabrassions /sa.bʁa.sjɔ̃/ | sabrassiez /sa.bʁa.sje/ | sabrassent /sa.bʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | sabre /sabʁ/ | — | sabrons /sa.bʁɔ̃/ | sabrez /sa.bʁe/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “sabrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- arbres, barres, barrés, braser
Romanian
Etymology
From French sabreur.
Noun
sabrer m (plural sabreri)
- swordsman
Declension
Declension of sabrer
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) sabrer | sabrerul | (niște) sabreri | sabrerii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) sabrer | sabrerului | (unor) sabreri | sabrerilor |
| vocative | sabrerule | sabrerilor | ||