concasser

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French conquaisser, from Latin conquassāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.ka.se/

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Verb

concasser

1. (transitive) to crush, to grind, to reduce (a hard or dry substance like sugar or pepper) to small pieces, as with a pestle or hammer
2. (transitive) to dice (a tomato) after removing seeds and skin

Conjugation

Conjugation of concasser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	concasser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	concassant /kɔ̃.ka.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		concassé /kɔ̃.ka.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	concasse /kɔ̃.kas/	concasses /kɔ̃.kas/	concasse /kɔ̃.kas/	concassons /kɔ̃.ka.sɔ̃/	concassez /kɔ̃.ka.se/	concassent /kɔ̃.kas/
	imperfect	concassais /kɔ̃.ka.sɛ/	concassais /kɔ̃.ka.sɛ/	concassait /kɔ̃.ka.sɛ/	concassions /kɔ̃.ka.sjɔ̃/	concassiez /kɔ̃.ka.sje/	concassaient /kɔ̃.ka.sɛ/
	past historic2	concassai /kɔ̃.ka.se/	concassas /kɔ̃.ka.sa/	concassa /kɔ̃.ka.sa/	concassâmes /kɔ̃.ka.sam/	concassâtes /kɔ̃.ka.sat/	concassèrent /kɔ̃.ka.sɛʁ/
	future	concasserai /kɔ̃.ka.sʁe/	concasseras /kɔ̃.ka.sʁa/	concassera /kɔ̃.ka.sʁa/	concasserons /kɔ̃.ka.sʁɔ̃/	concasserez /kɔ̃.ka.sʁe/	concasseront /kɔ̃.ka.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	concasserais /kɔ̃.ka.sʁɛ/	concasserais /kɔ̃.ka.sʁɛ/	concasserait /kɔ̃.ka.sʁɛ/	concasserions /kɔ̃.ka.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	concasseriez /kɔ̃.ka.sə.ʁje/	concasseraient /kɔ̃.ka.sʁɛ/
(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	concasse /kɔ̃.kas/	concasses /kɔ̃.kas/	concasse /kɔ̃.kas/	concassions /kɔ̃.ka.sjɔ̃/	concassiez /kɔ̃.ka.sje/	concassent /kɔ̃.kas/
	imperfect2	concassasse /kɔ̃.ka.sas/	concassasses /kɔ̃.ka.sas/	concassât /kɔ̃.ka.sa/	concassassions /kɔ̃.ka.sa.sjɔ̃/	concassassiez /kɔ̃.ka.sa.sje/	concassassent /kɔ̃.ka.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	concasse /kɔ̃.kas/	—	concassons /kɔ̃.ka.sɔ̃/	concassez /kɔ̃.ka.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: 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

• → English: concassé, concassed

Further reading

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