tabasser
French
Etymology
From tabac + -asser; see passer à tabac, taper.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ta.ba.se/
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Verb
tabasser
Conjugation
Conjugation of tabasser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | tabasser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | tabassant /ta.ba.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | tabassé /ta.ba.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | tabasse /ta.bas/ |
tabasses /ta.bas/ |
tabasse /ta.bas/ |
tabassons /ta.ba.sɔ̃/ |
tabassez /ta.ba.se/ |
tabassent /ta.bas/ |
| imperfect | tabassais /ta.ba.sɛ/ |
tabassais /ta.ba.sɛ/ |
tabassait /ta.ba.sɛ/ |
tabassions /ta.ba.sjɔ̃/ |
tabassiez /ta.ba.sje/ |
tabassaient /ta.ba.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | tabassai /ta.ba.se/ |
tabassas /ta.ba.sa/ |
tabassa /ta.ba.sa/ |
tabassâmes /ta.ba.sam/ |
tabassâtes /ta.ba.sat/ |
tabassèrent /ta.ba.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | tabasserai /ta.ba.sʁe/ |
tabasseras /ta.ba.sʁa/ |
tabassera /ta.ba.sʁa/ |
tabasserons /ta.ba.sʁɔ̃/ |
tabasserez /ta.ba.sʁe/ |
tabasseront /ta.ba.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tabasserais /ta.ba.sʁɛ/ |
tabasserais /ta.ba.sʁɛ/ |
tabasserait /ta.ba.sʁɛ/ |
tabasserions /ta.ba.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
tabasseriez /ta.ba.sə.ʁje/ |
tabasseraient /ta.ba.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 | tabasse /ta.bas/ |
tabasses /ta.bas/ |
tabasse /ta.bas/ |
tabassions /ta.ba.sjɔ̃/ |
tabassiez /ta.ba.sje/ |
tabassent /ta.bas/ |
| imperfect2 | tabassasse /ta.ba.sas/ |
tabassasses /ta.ba.sas/ |
tabassât /ta.ba.sa/ |
tabassassions /ta.ba.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
tabassassiez /ta.ba.sa.sje/ |
tabassassent /ta.ba.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | tabasse /ta.bas/ |
— | tabassons /ta.ba.sɔ̃/ |
tabassez /ta.ba.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). | |||||||
References
- “tabasser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading
- “tabasser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.