glacer

French

Etymology

From glace +‎ -er or Latin glaciāre, present active infinitive of glaciō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡla.se/

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Verb

glacer

1. (transitive) to freeze; to turn to ice
2. (figuratively, transitive) to freeze
3. to ice (cover with icing)
4. (reflexive, se glacer) to turn to ice (become ice)

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

Conjugation of glacer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	glacer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	glaçant /ɡla.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		glacé /ɡla.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	glace /ɡlas/	glaces /ɡlas/	glace /ɡlas/	glaçons /ɡla.sɔ̃/	glacez /ɡla.se/	glacent /ɡlas/
	imperfect	glaçais /ɡla.sɛ/	glaçais /ɡla.sɛ/	glaçait /ɡla.sɛ/	glacions /ɡla.sjɔ̃/	glaciez /ɡla.sje/	glaçaient /ɡla.sɛ/
	past historic2	glaçai /ɡla.se/	glaças /ɡla.sa/	glaça /ɡla.sa/	glaçâmes /ɡla.sam/	glaçâtes /ɡla.sat/	glacèrent /ɡla.sɛʁ/
	future	glacerai /ɡla.sʁe/	glaceras /ɡla.sʁa/	glacera /ɡla.sʁa/	glacerons /ɡla.sʁɔ̃/	glacerez /ɡla.sʁe/	glaceront /ɡla.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	glacerais /ɡla.sʁɛ/	glacerais /ɡla.sʁɛ/	glacerait /ɡla.sʁɛ/	glacerions /ɡla.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	glaceriez /ɡla.sə.ʁje/	glaceraient /ɡla.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	glace /ɡlas/	glaces /ɡlas/	glace /ɡlas/	glacions /ɡla.sjɔ̃/	glaciez /ɡla.sje/	glacent /ɡlas/
	imperfect2	glaçasse /ɡla.sas/	glaçasses /ɡla.sas/	glaçât /ɡla.sa/	glaçassions /ɡla.sa.sjɔ̃/	glaçassiez /ɡla.sa.sje/	glaçassent /ɡla.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	glace /ɡlas/	—	glaçons /ɡla.sɔ̃/	glacez /ɡla.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).

Related terms

• glaçage
• glace

Further reading

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