consacrer

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French consecrer, cunsecrer, borrowed from Latin cōnsecrāre, and altered under the influence of sacrer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.sa.kʁe/

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Verb

consacrer

1. to dedicate, to devote (time, effort)
2. to consecrate
3. to standardize through long usage

   Ce terme est récent; il n’y a pas encore de traduction consacrée.

   This term is recent; there's no standard/clearly most commonly used translation for it yet.

Conjugation

Conjugation of consacrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	consacrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	consacrant /kɔ̃.sa.kʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		consacré /kɔ̃.sa.kʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	consacre /kɔ̃.sakʁ/	consacres /kɔ̃.sakʁ/	consacre /kɔ̃.sakʁ/	consacrons /kɔ̃.sa.kʁɔ̃/	consacrez /kɔ̃.sa.kʁe/	consacrent /kɔ̃.sakʁ/
	imperfect	consacrais /kɔ̃.sa.kʁɛ/	consacrais /kɔ̃.sa.kʁɛ/	consacrait /kɔ̃.sa.kʁɛ/	consacrions /kɔ̃.sa.kʁi.jɔ̃/	consacriez /kɔ̃.sa.kʁi.je/	consacraient /kɔ̃.sa.kʁɛ/
	past historic2	consacrai /kɔ̃.sa.kʁe/	consacras /kɔ̃.sa.kʁa/	consacra /kɔ̃.sa.kʁa/	consacrâmes /kɔ̃.sa.kʁam/	consacrâtes /kɔ̃.sa.kʁat/	consacrèrent /kɔ̃.sa.kʁɛʁ/
	future	consacrerai /kɔ̃.sa.kʁə.ʁe/	consacreras /kɔ̃.sa.kʁə.ʁa/	consacrera /kɔ̃.sa.kʁə.ʁa/	consacrerons /kɔ̃.sa.kʁə.ʁɔ̃/	consacrerez /kɔ̃.sa.kʁə.ʁe/	consacreront /kɔ̃.sa.kʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	consacrerais /kɔ̃.sa.kʁə.ʁɛ/	consacrerais /kɔ̃.sa.kʁə.ʁɛ/	consacrerait /kɔ̃.sa.kʁə.ʁɛ/	consacrerions /kɔ̃.sa.kʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	consacreriez /kɔ̃.sa.kʁə.ʁje/	consacreraient /kɔ̃.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	consacre /kɔ̃.sakʁ/	consacres /kɔ̃.sakʁ/	consacre /kɔ̃.sakʁ/	consacrions /kɔ̃.sa.kʁi.jɔ̃/	consacriez /kɔ̃.sa.kʁi.je/	consacrent /kɔ̃.sakʁ/
	imperfect2	consacrasse /kɔ̃.sa.kʁas/	consacrasses /kɔ̃.sa.kʁas/	consacrât /kɔ̃.sa.kʁa/	consacrassions /kɔ̃.sa.kʁa.sjɔ̃/	consacrassiez /kɔ̃.sa.kʁa.sje/	consacrassent /kɔ̃.sa.kʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	consacre /kɔ̃.sakʁ/	—	consacrons /kɔ̃.sa.kʁɔ̃/	consacrez /kɔ̃.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: 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).

Related terms

• sacrer

Descendants

• → Romanian: consacra

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

cōnsacrer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of cōnsacrō