castrer

French

Etymology

Ca. 1600, borrowed from Latin castrāre. Doublet of inherited châtrer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kas.tʁe/

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• Homophones: castrai, castré, castrée, castrées, castrés, castrez

Verb

castrer

1. to castrate, neuter (remove sex organs from an animal)

   Synonym: châtrer

Conjugation

Conjugation of castrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	castrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	castrant /kas.tʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		castré /kas.tʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	castre /kastʁ/	castres /kastʁ/	castre /kastʁ/	castrons /kas.tʁɔ̃/	castrez /kas.tʁe/	castrent /kastʁ/
	imperfect	castrais /kas.tʁɛ/	castrais /kas.tʁɛ/	castrait /kas.tʁɛ/	castrions /kas.tʁi.jɔ̃/	castriez /kas.tʁi.je/	castraient /kas.tʁɛ/
	past historic2	castrai /kas.tʁe/	castras /kas.tʁa/	castra /kas.tʁa/	castrâmes /kas.tʁam/	castrâtes /kas.tʁat/	castrèrent /kas.tʁɛʁ/
	future	castrerai /kas.tʁə.ʁe/	castreras /kas.tʁə.ʁa/	castrera /kas.tʁə.ʁa/	castrerons /kas.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/	castrerez /kas.tʁə.ʁe/	castreront /kas.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	castrerais /kas.tʁə.ʁɛ/	castrerais /kas.tʁə.ʁɛ/	castrerait /kas.tʁə.ʁɛ/	castrerions /kas.tʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	castreriez /kas.tʁə.ʁje/	castreraient /kas.tʁə.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	castre /kastʁ/	castres /kastʁ/	castre /kastʁ/	castrions /kas.tʁi.jɔ̃/	castriez /kas.tʁi.je/	castrent /kastʁ/
	imperfect2	castrasse /kas.tʁas/	castrasses /kas.tʁas/	castrât /kas.tʁa/	castrassions /kas.tʁa.sjɔ̃/	castrassiez /kas.tʁa.sje/	castrassent /kas.tʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	castre /kastʁ/	—	castrons /kas.tʁɔ̃/	castrez /kas.tʁe/	—
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

• castration

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

castrer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of castrō