sacrer
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa.kʁe/
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Verb
sacrer
- (transitive) to crown
- (transitive) to post (nominate to a certain post or position)
- (transitive, North America) whack; slam (put violently)
- sacrer un coup de poing sur la table
- to slam one's fist on the table.
- (intransitive) to swear, curse; to run one's mouth
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- Il avait à ses côtés, sur une chaise, une grande carafe d'eau-de-vie, dont il se versait de temps à autre pour se donner du coeur au ventre; mais, dès qu'il vit le médecin, son exaltation tomba, et, au lieu de sacrer comme il faisait depuis douze heures, il se prit à geindre faiblement.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (intransitive, Louisiana) to throw, to fling
Conjugation
Conjugation of sacrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | sacrer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | sacrant /sa.kʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | sacré /sa.kʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | sacre /sakʁ/ |
sacres /sakʁ/ |
sacre /sakʁ/ |
sacrons /sa.kʁɔ̃/ |
sacrez /sa.kʁe/ |
sacrent /sakʁ/ |
| imperfect | sacrais /sa.kʁɛ/ |
sacrais /sa.kʁɛ/ |
sacrait /sa.kʁɛ/ |
sacrions /sa.kʁi.jɔ̃/ |
sacriez /sa.kʁi.je/ |
sacraient /sa.kʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | sacrai /sa.kʁe/ |
sacras /sa.kʁa/ |
sacra /sa.kʁa/ |
sacrâmes /sa.kʁam/ |
sacrâtes /sa.kʁat/ |
sacrèrent /sa.kʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | sacrerai /sa.kʁə.ʁe/ |
sacreras /sa.kʁə.ʁa/ |
sacrera /sa.kʁə.ʁa/ |
sacrerons /sa.kʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
sacrerez /sa.kʁə.ʁe/ |
sacreront /sa.kʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | sacrerais /sa.kʁə.ʁɛ/ |
sacrerais /sa.kʁə.ʁɛ/ |
sacrerait /sa.kʁə.ʁɛ/ |
sacrerions /sa.kʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
sacreriez /sa.kʁə.ʁje/ |
sacreraient /sa.kʁə.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 | sacre /sakʁ/ |
sacres /sakʁ/ |
sacre /sakʁ/ |
sacrions /sa.kʁi.jɔ̃/ |
sacriez /sa.kʁi.je/ |
sacrent /sakʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | sacrasse /sa.kʁas/ |
sacrasses /sa.kʁas/ |
sacrât /sa.kʁa/ |
sacrassions /sa.kʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
sacrassiez /sa.kʁa.sje/ |
sacrassent /sa.kʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | sacre /sakʁ/ |
— | sacrons /sa.kʁɔ̃/ |
sacrez /sa.kʁe/ |
— | |
| 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
Related terms
Further reading
- “sacrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
sacrer
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of sacrō