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
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)
infinitive | simple | écraser | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | écrasant /e.kʁa.zɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | écrasé /e.kʁa.ze/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(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 historic2 | 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 | 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 | écrase /e.kʁaz/ |
écrases /e.kʁaz/ |
écrase /e.kʁaz/ |
écrasions /e.kʁa.zjɔ̃/ |
écrasiez /e.kʁa.zje/ |
écrasent /e.kʁaz/ |
imperfect2 | 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 | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | écrase /e.kʁaz/ |
— | écrasons /e.kʁa.zɔ̃/ |
écrasez /e.kʁa.ze/ |
— | |
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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived terms
References
- ^ Worcester, Joseph Emerson (1910: Worcester's academic dictionary: a new etymological dictionary of the English language
Further reading
- “écraser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “écraser” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “écraser” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.
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