assommer

French

Etymology

From a- +‎ somme +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sɔ.me/

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Verb

assommer

1. to slaughter (an animal)
2. to stun, knock out, poleaxe, sandbag
3. (by extension) to hit (someone)

Conjugation

Conjugation of assommer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	assommer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	assommant /a.sɔ.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		assommé /a.sɔ.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	assomme /a.sɔm/	assommes /a.sɔm/	assomme /a.sɔm/	assommons /a.sɔ.mɔ̃/	assommez /a.sɔ.me/	assomment /a.sɔm/
	imperfect	assommais /a.sɔ.mɛ/	assommais /a.sɔ.mɛ/	assommait /a.sɔ.mɛ/	assommions /a.sɔ.mjɔ̃/	assommiez /a.sɔ.mje/	assommaient /a.sɔ.mɛ/
	past historic2	assommai /a.sɔ.me/	assommas /a.sɔ.ma/	assomma /a.sɔ.ma/	assommâmes /a.sɔ.mam/	assommâtes /a.sɔ.mat/	assommèrent /a.sɔ.mɛʁ/
	future	assommerai /a.sɔm.ʁe/	assommeras /a.sɔm.ʁa/	assommera /a.sɔm.ʁa/	assommerons /a.sɔm.ʁɔ̃/	assommerez /a.sɔm.ʁe/	assommeront /a.sɔm.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	assommerais /a.sɔm.ʁɛ/	assommerais /a.sɔm.ʁɛ/	assommerait /a.sɔm.ʁɛ/	assommerions /a.sɔ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	assommeriez /a.sɔ.mə.ʁje/	assommeraient /a.sɔm.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	assomme /a.sɔm/	assommes /a.sɔm/	assomme /a.sɔm/	assommions /a.sɔ.mjɔ̃/	assommiez /a.sɔ.mje/	assomment /a.sɔm/
	imperfect2	assommasse /a.sɔ.mas/	assommasses /a.sɔ.mas/	assommât /a.sɔ.ma/	assommassions /a.sɔ.ma.sjɔ̃/	assommassiez /a.sɔ.ma.sje/	assommassent /a.sɔ.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	assomme /a.sɔm/	—	assommons /a.sɔ.mɔ̃/	assommez /a.sɔ.me/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Descendants

• Saint Dominican Creole French: somé

Further reading

• “assommer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• sommeras

Norman

Etymology

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Verb

assommer

1. (Jersey) to stun