assassiner
French
Etymology
From assassin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.sa.si.ne/
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Verb
assassiner
- (transitive) to assassinate
Conjugation
Conjugation of assassiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | assassiner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | assassinant /a.sa.si.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | assassiné /a.sa.si.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | assassine /a.sa.sin/ |
assassines /a.sa.sin/ |
assassine /a.sa.sin/ |
assassinons /a.sa.si.nɔ̃/ |
assassinez /a.sa.si.ne/ |
assassinent /a.sa.sin/ |
| imperfect | assassinais /a.sa.si.nɛ/ |
assassinais /a.sa.si.nɛ/ |
assassinait /a.sa.si.nɛ/ |
assassinions /a.sa.si.njɔ̃/ |
assassiniez /a.sa.si.nje/ |
assassinaient /a.sa.si.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | assassinai /a.sa.si.ne/ |
assassinas /a.sa.si.na/ |
assassina /a.sa.si.na/ |
assassinâmes /a.sa.si.nam/ |
assassinâtes /a.sa.si.nat/ |
assassinèrent /a.sa.si.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | assassinerai /a.sa.sin.ʁe/ |
assassineras /a.sa.sin.ʁa/ |
assassinera /a.sa.sin.ʁa/ |
assassinerons /a.sa.sin.ʁɔ̃/ |
assassinerez /a.sa.sin.ʁe/ |
assassineront /a.sa.sin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | assassinerais /a.sa.sin.ʁɛ/ |
assassinerais /a.sa.sin.ʁɛ/ |
assassinerait /a.sa.sin.ʁɛ/ |
assassinerions /a.sa.si.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
assassineriez /a.sa.si.nə.ʁje/ |
assassineraient /a.sa.sin.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 | assassine /a.sa.sin/ |
assassines /a.sa.sin/ |
assassine /a.sa.sin/ |
assassinions /a.sa.si.njɔ̃/ |
assassiniez /a.sa.si.nje/ |
assassinent /a.sa.sin/ |
| imperfect2 | assassinasse /a.sa.si.nas/ |
assassinasses /a.sa.si.nas/ |
assassinât /a.sa.si.na/ |
assassinassions /a.sa.si.na.sjɔ̃/ |
assassinassiez /a.sa.si.na.sje/ |
assassinassent /a.sa.si.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | assassine /a.sa.sin/ |
— | assassinons /a.sa.si.nɔ̃/ |
assassinez /a.sa.si.ne/ |
— | |
| 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
Further reading
- “assassiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.