assassiner
French
Etymology
From assassin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.sa.si.ne/
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Verb
assassiner
- (transitive) to assassinate
Conjugation
Conjugation of assassiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | assassiner | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | assassinant /a.sa.si.nɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | assassiné /a.sa.si.ne/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | assassine /a.sa.sin/ | assassines /a.sa.sin/ | assassine /a.sa.sin/ | assassinons /a.sa.si.nɔ̃/ | assassinez /a.sa.si.ne/ | assassinent /a.sa.sin/ |
imperfect | assassinais /a.sa.si.nɛ/ | assassinais /a.sa.si.nɛ/ | assassinait /a.sa.si.nɛ/ | assassinions /a.sa.si.njɔ̃/ | assassiniez /a.sa.si.nje/ | assassinaient /a.sa.si.nɛ/ | |
past historic2 | assassinai /a.sa.si.ne/ | assassinas /a.sa.si.na/ | assassina /a.sa.si.na/ | assassinâmes /a.sa.si.nam/ | assassinâtes /a.sa.si.nat/ | assassinèrent /a.sa.si.nɛʁ/ | |
future | assassinerai /a.sa.sin.ʁe/ | assassineras /a.sa.sin.ʁa/ | assassinera /a.sa.sin.ʁa/ | assassinerons /a.sa.sin.ʁɔ̃/ | assassinerez /a.sa.sin.ʁe/ | assassineront /a.sa.sin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | assassinerais /a.sa.sin.ʁɛ/ | assassinerais /a.sa.sin.ʁɛ/ | assassinerait /a.sa.sin.ʁɛ/ | assassinerions /a.sa.si.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ | assassineriez /a.sa.si.nə.ʁje/ | assassineraient /a.sa.sin.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 | assassine /a.sa.sin/ | assassines /a.sa.sin/ | assassine /a.sa.sin/ | assassinions /a.sa.si.njɔ̃/ | assassiniez /a.sa.si.nje/ | assassinent /a.sa.sin/ |
imperfect2 | assassinasse /a.sa.si.nas/ | assassinasses /a.sa.si.nas/ | assassinât /a.sa.si.na/ | assassinassions /a.sa.si.na.sjɔ̃/ | assassinassiez /a.sa.si.na.sje/ | assassinassent /a.sa.si.nas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | assassine /a.sa.sin/ | — | assassinons /a.sa.si.nɔ̃/ | assassinez /a.sa.si.ne/ | — | |
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). |
Related terms
- assassin
- assassinat
Further reading
- “assassiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.