fracasser
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian fracassare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fʁa.ka.se/
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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
Further reading
- “fracasser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Brachet, A. (1873) “fracasser”, in Kitchin, G. W., transl., Etymological dictionary of the French language (Clarendon Press Series), 1st edition, London: Oxford/MacMillan and Co.