percuter
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
percuter
- (transitive) to hit; to crash into
Conjugation
Conjugation of percuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | percuter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | percutant /pɛʁ.ky.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | percuté /pɛʁ.ky.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | percute /pɛʁ.kyt/ |
percutes /pɛʁ.kyt/ |
percute /pɛʁ.kyt/ |
percutons /pɛʁ.ky.tɔ̃/ |
percutez /pɛʁ.ky.te/ |
percutent /pɛʁ.kyt/ |
| imperfect | percutais /pɛʁ.ky.tɛ/ |
percutais /pɛʁ.ky.tɛ/ |
percutait /pɛʁ.ky.tɛ/ |
percutions /pɛʁ.ky.tjɔ̃/ |
percutiez /pɛʁ.ky.tje/ |
percutaient /pɛʁ.ky.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | percutai /pɛʁ.ky.te/ |
percutas /pɛʁ.ky.ta/ |
percuta /pɛʁ.ky.ta/ |
percutâmes /pɛʁ.ky.tam/ |
percutâtes /pɛʁ.ky.tat/ |
percutèrent /pɛʁ.ky.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | percuterai /pɛʁ.ky.tʁe/ |
percuteras /pɛʁ.ky.tʁa/ |
percutera /pɛʁ.ky.tʁa/ |
percuterons /pɛʁ.ky.tʁɔ̃/ |
percuterez /pɛʁ.ky.tʁe/ |
percuteront /pɛʁ.ky.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | percuterais /pɛʁ.ky.tʁɛ/ |
percuterais /pɛʁ.ky.tʁɛ/ |
percuterait /pɛʁ.ky.tʁɛ/ |
percuterions /pɛʁ.ky.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
percuteriez /pɛʁ.ky.tə.ʁje/ |
percuteraient /pɛʁ.ky.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | percute /pɛʁ.kyt/ |
percutes /pɛʁ.kyt/ |
percute /pɛʁ.kyt/ |
percutions /pɛʁ.ky.tjɔ̃/ |
percutiez /pɛʁ.ky.tje/ |
percutent /pɛʁ.kyt/ |
| imperfect2 | percutasse /pɛʁ.ky.tas/ |
percutasses /pɛʁ.ky.tas/ |
percutât /pɛʁ.ky.ta/ |
percutassions /pɛʁ.ky.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
percutassiez /pɛʁ.ky.ta.sje/ |
percutassent /pɛʁ.ky.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | percute /pɛʁ.kyt/ |
— | percutons /pɛʁ.ky.tɔ̃/ |
percutez /pɛʁ.ky.te/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “percuter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.