massacrer
English
Etymology
Noun
massacrer (plural massacrers)
- One who massacres.
Translations
one who massacres
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Anagrams
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French massacrer, from Old French macecrer, macecler, probably from Vulgar Latin *matteuculāre, from *matteuca (whence French massue), from *mattea or Late Latin mattia, from Latin mateola (“hoe”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.sa.kʁe/
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Verb
massacrer
- to massacre (to kill)
- (figuratively) to botch (to do something badly)
- Il a massacré cette chanson. ― He sang that song really badly. (literally, “He massacred that song.”)
Conjugation
Conjugation of massacrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | massacrer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | massacrant /ma.sa.kʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | massacré /ma.sa.kʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | massacre /ma.sakʁ/ |
massacres /ma.sakʁ/ |
massacre /ma.sakʁ/ |
massacrons /ma.sa.kʁɔ̃/ |
massacrez /ma.sa.kʁe/ |
massacrent /ma.sakʁ/ |
| imperfect | massacrais /ma.sa.kʁɛ/ |
massacrais /ma.sa.kʁɛ/ |
massacrait /ma.sa.kʁɛ/ |
massacrions /ma.sa.kʁi.jɔ̃/ |
massacriez /ma.sa.kʁi.je/ |
massacraient /ma.sa.kʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | massacrai /ma.sa.kʁe/ |
massacras /ma.sa.kʁa/ |
massacra /ma.sa.kʁa/ |
massacrâmes /ma.sa.kʁam/ |
massacrâtes /ma.sa.kʁat/ |
massacrèrent /ma.sa.kʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | massacrerai /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁe/ |
massacreras /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁa/ |
massacrera /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁa/ |
massacrerons /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
massacrerez /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁe/ |
massacreront /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | massacrerais /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁɛ/ |
massacrerais /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁɛ/ |
massacrerait /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁɛ/ |
massacrerions /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
massacreriez /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁje/ |
massacreraient /ma.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 | massacre /ma.sakʁ/ |
massacres /ma.sakʁ/ |
massacre /ma.sakʁ/ |
massacrions /ma.sa.kʁi.jɔ̃/ |
massacriez /ma.sa.kʁi.je/ |
massacrent /ma.sakʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | massacrasse /ma.sa.kʁas/ |
massacrasses /ma.sa.kʁas/ |
massacrât /ma.sa.kʁa/ |
massacrassions /ma.sa.kʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
massacrassiez /ma.sa.kʁa.sje/ |
massacrassent /ma.sa.kʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | massacre /ma.sakʁ/ |
— | massacrons /ma.sa.kʁɔ̃/ |
massacrez /ma.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). | |||||||
Related terms
Descendants
- → German: massakrieren
- → Italian: massacrare
- → Romanian: masacra
Further reading
- “massacrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.