fasciner
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fascināre. Displaced Old French fesnier, which was inherited.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa.si.ne/
Verb
fasciner
- (transitive) to fascinate
Conjugation
Conjugation of fasciner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | fasciner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | fascinant /fa.si.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | fasciné /fa.si.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | fascine /fa.sin/ |
fascines /fa.sin/ |
fascine /fa.sin/ |
fascinons /fa.si.nɔ̃/ |
fascinez /fa.si.ne/ |
fascinent /fa.sin/ |
| imperfect | fascinais /fa.si.nɛ/ |
fascinais /fa.si.nɛ/ |
fascinait /fa.si.nɛ/ |
fascinions /fa.si.njɔ̃/ |
fasciniez /fa.si.nje/ |
fascinaient /fa.si.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | fascinai /fa.si.ne/ |
fascinas /fa.si.na/ |
fascina /fa.si.na/ |
fascinâmes /fa.si.nam/ |
fascinâtes /fa.si.nat/ |
fascinèrent /fa.si.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | fascinerai /fa.sin.ʁe/ |
fascineras /fa.sin.ʁa/ |
fascinera /fa.sin.ʁa/ |
fascinerons /fa.sin.ʁɔ̃/ |
fascinerez /fa.sin.ʁe/ |
fascineront /fa.sin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | fascinerais /fa.sin.ʁɛ/ |
fascinerais /fa.sin.ʁɛ/ |
fascinerait /fa.sin.ʁɛ/ |
fascinerions /fa.si.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
fascineriez /fa.si.nə.ʁje/ |
fascineraient /fa.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 | fascine /fa.sin/ |
fascines /fa.sin/ |
fascine /fa.sin/ |
fascinions /fa.si.njɔ̃/ |
fasciniez /fa.si.nje/ |
fascinent /fa.sin/ |
| imperfect2 | fascinasse /fa.si.nas/ |
fascinasses /fa.si.nas/ |
fascinât /fa.si.na/ |
fascinassions /fa.si.na.sjɔ̃/ |
fascinassiez /fa.si.na.sje/ |
fascinassent /fa.si.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | fascine /fa.sin/ |
— | fascinons /fa.si.nɔ̃/ |
fascinez /fa.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
Further reading
- “fasciner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
fasciner
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of fascinō
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
fasciner
- imperative of fascinere
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
fasciner
- imperative of fascinera