écraser
See also: êcraser
French
Etymology
From Middle French ecraser (“to squash”), from Middle English crasen (“to break, shatter”), from Old Norse *krasa (“to shatter”), ultimately imitative.[1] More at craze.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.kʁa.ze/
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Verb
écraser
- to squash
- to obliterate
- (cooking) to mash (vegetables), to crush (garlic)
- (figuratively) to thrash, to crush, to win by a large margin
- (France, slang, reflexive) to shut up
- (reflexive, of an aircraft) to crash
Conjugation
Conjugation of écraser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | écraser | avoir écrasé | |||||
| gerund | en écrasant | en ayant écrasé | |||||
| present participle | écrasant /e.kʁa.zɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | écrasé /e.kʁa.ze/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | écrase /e.kʁaz/ |
écrases /e.kʁaz/ |
écrase /e.kʁaz/ |
écrasons /e.kʁa.zɔ̃/ |
écrasez /e.kʁa.ze/ |
écrasent /e.kʁaz/ |
| imperfect | écrasais /e.kʁa.zɛ/ |
écrasais /e.kʁa.zɛ/ |
écrasait /e.kʁa.zɛ/ |
écrasions /e.kʁa.zjɔ̃/ |
écrasiez /e.kʁa.zje/ |
écrasaient /e.kʁa.zɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | écrasai /e.kʁa.ze/ |
écrasas /e.kʁa.za/ |
écrasa /e.kʁa.za/ |
écrasâmes /e.kʁa.zam/ |
écrasâtes /e.kʁa.zat/ |
écrasèrent /e.kʁa.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | écraserai /e.kʁaz.ʁe/ |
écraseras /e.kʁaz.ʁa/ |
écrasera /e.kʁaz.ʁa/ |
écraserons /e.kʁaz.ʁɔ̃/ |
écraserez /e.kʁaz.ʁe/ |
écraseront /e.kʁaz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | écraserais /e.kʁaz.ʁɛ/ |
écraserais /e.kʁaz.ʁɛ/ |
écraserait /e.kʁaz.ʁɛ/ |
écraserions /e.kʁa.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
écraseriez /e.kʁa.zə.ʁje/ |
écraseraient /e.kʁaz.ʁɛ/ | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | écrase /e.kʁaz/ |
écrases /e.kʁaz/ |
écrase /e.kʁaz/ |
écrasions /e.kʁa.zjɔ̃/ |
écrasiez /e.kʁa.zje/ |
écrasent /e.kʁaz/ |
| imperfect1 | écrasasse /e.kʁa.zas/ |
écrasasses /e.kʁa.zas/ |
écrasât /e.kʁa.za/ |
écrasassions /e.kʁa.za.sjɔ̃/ |
écrasassiez /e.kʁa.za.sje/ |
écrasassent /e.kʁa.zas/ | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | écrase /e.kʁaz/ |
— | écrasons /e.kʁa.zɔ̃/ |
écrasez /e.kʁa.ze/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms
References
- ↑ Worcester, Joseph Emerson (1910: Worcester's academic dictionary: a new etymological dictionary of the English language
Further reading
- “écraser” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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