tancer

See also: tȧncer

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French tencier, from Vulgar Latin *tentiāre, from Latin tentus, the past participle of tendō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑ̃.se/

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Verb

tancer

1. (literary) to scold, reprimand, rebuke

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 tancer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tancer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tançant /tɑ̃.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tancé /tɑ̃.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tance /tɑ̃s/	tances /tɑ̃s/	tance /tɑ̃s/	tançons /tɑ̃.sɔ̃/	tancez /tɑ̃.se/	tancent /tɑ̃s/
	imperfect	tançais /tɑ̃.sɛ/	tançais /tɑ̃.sɛ/	tançait /tɑ̃.sɛ/	tancions /tɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	tanciez /tɑ̃.sje/	tançaient /tɑ̃.sɛ/
	past historic2	tançai /tɑ̃.se/	tanças /tɑ̃.sa/	tança /tɑ̃.sa/	tançâmes /tɑ̃.sam/	tançâtes /tɑ̃.sat/	tancèrent /tɑ̃.sɛʁ/
	future	tancerai /tɑ̃.sʁe/	tanceras /tɑ̃.sʁa/	tancera /tɑ̃.sʁa/	tancerons /tɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/	tancerez /tɑ̃.sʁe/	tanceront /tɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tancerais /tɑ̃.sʁɛ/	tancerais /tɑ̃.sʁɛ/	tancerait /tɑ̃.sʁɛ/	tancerions /tɑ̃.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	tanceriez /tɑ̃.sə.ʁje/	tanceraient /tɑ̃.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	tance /tɑ̃s/	tances /tɑ̃s/	tance /tɑ̃s/	tancions /tɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	tanciez /tɑ̃.sje/	tancent /tɑ̃s/
	imperfect2	tançasse /tɑ̃.sas/	tançasses /tɑ̃.sas/	tançât /tɑ̃.sa/	tançassions /tɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃/	tançassiez /tɑ̃.sa.sje/	tançassent /tɑ̃.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tance /tɑ̃s/	—	tançons /tɑ̃.sɔ̃/	tancez /tɑ̃.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

• tenson

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• carnet, centra, cernât, créant, encrât, trance