pacser
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pak.se/
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Verb
pacser
- (intransitive) to enter into a civil partnership
- ma sœur s'est pacsée avec son amie
- my sister has entered into a civil partnership with her girlfriend
Conjugation
Conjugation of pacser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | pacser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | pacsant /pak.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pacsé /pak.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | pacse /paks/ |
pacses /paks/ |
pacse /paks/ |
pacsons /pak.sɔ̃/ |
pacsez /pak.se/ |
pacsent /paks/ |
| imperfect | pacsais /pak.sɛ/ |
pacsais /pak.sɛ/ |
pacsait /pak.sɛ/ |
pacsions /pak.sjɔ̃/ |
pacsiez /pak.sje/ |
pacsaient /pak.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | pacsai /pak.se/ |
pacsas /pak.sa/ |
pacsa /pak.sa/ |
pacsâmes /pak.sam/ |
pacsâtes /pak.sat/ |
pacsèrent /pak.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | pacserai /pak.sə.ʁe/ |
pacseras /pak.sə.ʁa/ |
pacsera /pak.sə.ʁa/ |
pacserons /pak.sə.ʁɔ̃/ |
pacserez /pak.sə.ʁe/ |
pacseront /pak.sə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pacserais /pak.sə.ʁɛ/ |
pacserais /pak.sə.ʁɛ/ |
pacserait /pak.sə.ʁɛ/ |
pacserions /pak.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pacseriez /pak.sə.ʁje/ |
pacseraient /pak.sə.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 | pacse /paks/ |
pacses /paks/ |
pacse /paks/ |
pacsions /pak.sjɔ̃/ |
pacsiez /pak.sje/ |
pacsent /paks/ |
| imperfect2 | pacsasse /pak.sas/ |
pacsasses /pak.sas/ |
pacsât /pak.sa/ |
pacsassions /pak.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
pacsassiez /pak.sa.sje/ |
pacsassent /pak.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pacse /paks/ |
— | pacsons /pak.sɔ̃/ |
pacsez /pak.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “pacser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012