graisser

French

Etymology

From graisse +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɛ.se/, /ɡʁe.se/

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Verb

graisser

1. (transitive) to grease, oil, lubricate
2. (transitive) to smear

Conjugation

Conjugation of graisser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	graisser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	graissant /ɡʁɛ.sɑ̃/ or /ɡʁe.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		graissé /ɡʁɛ.se/ or /ɡʁe.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	graisse /ɡʁɛs/	graisses /ɡʁɛs/	graisse /ɡʁɛs/	graissons /ɡʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /ɡʁe.sɔ̃/	graissez /ɡʁɛ.se/ or /ɡʁe.se/	graissent /ɡʁɛs/
	imperfect	graissais /ɡʁɛ.sɛ/ or /ɡʁe.sɛ/	graissais /ɡʁɛ.sɛ/ or /ɡʁe.sɛ/	graissait /ɡʁɛ.sɛ/ or /ɡʁe.sɛ/	graissions /ɡʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /ɡʁe.sjɔ̃/	graissiez /ɡʁɛ.sje/ or /ɡʁe.sje/	graissaient /ɡʁɛ.sɛ/ or /ɡʁe.sɛ/
	past historic2	graissai /ɡʁɛ.se/ or /ɡʁe.se/	graissas /ɡʁɛ.sa/ or /ɡʁe.sa/	graissa /ɡʁɛ.sa/ or /ɡʁe.sa/	graissâmes /ɡʁɛ.sam/ or /ɡʁe.sam/	graissâtes /ɡʁɛ.sat/ or /ɡʁe.sat/	graissèrent /ɡʁɛ.sɛʁ/ or /ɡʁe.sɛʁ/
	future	graisserai /ɡʁɛ.sʁe/ or /ɡʁe.sʁe/	graisseras /ɡʁɛ.sʁa/ or /ɡʁe.sʁa/	graissera /ɡʁɛ.sʁa/ or /ɡʁe.sʁa/	graisserons /ɡʁɛ.sʁɔ̃/ or /ɡʁe.sʁɔ̃/	graisserez /ɡʁɛ.sʁe/ or /ɡʁe.sʁe/	graisseront /ɡʁɛ.sʁɔ̃/ or /ɡʁe.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	graisserais /ɡʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /ɡʁe.sʁɛ/	graisserais /ɡʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /ɡʁe.sʁɛ/	graisserait /ɡʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /ɡʁe.sʁɛ/	graisserions /ɡʁɛ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɡʁe.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	graisseriez /ɡʁɛ.sə.ʁje/ or /ɡʁe.sə.ʁje/	graisseraient /ɡʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /ɡʁe.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	graisse /ɡʁɛs/	graisses /ɡʁɛs/	graisse /ɡʁɛs/	graissions /ɡʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /ɡʁe.sjɔ̃/	graissiez /ɡʁɛ.sje/ or /ɡʁe.sje/	graissent /ɡʁɛs/
	imperfect2	graissasse /ɡʁɛ.sas/ or /ɡʁe.sas/	graissasses /ɡʁɛ.sas/ or /ɡʁe.sas/	graissât /ɡʁɛ.sa/ or /ɡʁe.sa/	graissassions /ɡʁɛ.sa.sjɔ̃/ or /ɡʁe.sa.sjɔ̃/	graissassiez /ɡʁɛ.sa.sje/ or /ɡʁe.sa.sje/	graissassent /ɡʁɛ.sas/ or /ɡʁe.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	graisse /ɡʁɛs/	—	graissons /ɡʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /ɡʁe.sɔ̃/	graissez /ɡʁɛ.se/ or /ɡʁe.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).

Derived terms

• graisser sa caloquinte
• graisser la patte

Further reading

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