graisser
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɡʁɛ.se/ ~ /ɡʁe.se/
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Verb
[edit]graisser
- (transitive) to grease, oil, lubricate
- (transitive) to smear
Conjugation
[edit]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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “graisser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012