massacrer

English

Etymology

massacre +‎ -er

Noun

massacrer (plural massacrers)

1. One who massacres.

Translations

one who massacres

• Latin: trucidator

Anagrams

• arms races

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French massacrer, from Old French macecrer, macecler, probably from Vulgar Latin *matteuculāre, from *matteuca (whence French massue), from *mattea or Late Latin mattia, from Latin mateola (“hoe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.sa.kʁe/

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Verb

massacrer

1. to massacre (kill)
2. (figuratively) to do something badly

   Il a massacré cette chanson ― he sung that song really badly (literally, “he massacred that song”)

Conjugation

Conjugation of massacrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	massacrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	massacrant /ma.sa.kʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		massacré /ma.sa.kʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	massacre /ma.sakʁ/	massacres /ma.sakʁ/	massacre /ma.sakʁ/	massacrons /ma.sa.kʁɔ̃/	massacrez /ma.sa.kʁe/	massacrent /ma.sakʁ/
	imperfect	massacrais /ma.sa.kʁɛ/	massacrais /ma.sa.kʁɛ/	massacrait /ma.sa.kʁɛ/	massacrions /ma.sa.kʁi.jɔ̃/	massacriez /ma.sa.kʁi.je/	massacraient /ma.sa.kʁɛ/
	past historic2	massacrai /ma.sa.kʁe/	massacras /ma.sa.kʁa/	massacra /ma.sa.kʁa/	massacrâmes /ma.sa.kʁam/	massacrâtes /ma.sa.kʁat/	massacrèrent /ma.sa.kʁɛʁ/
	future	massacrerai /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁe/	massacreras /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁa/	massacrera /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁa/	massacrerons /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁɔ̃/	massacrerez /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁe/	massacreront /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	massacrerais /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁɛ/	massacrerais /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁɛ/	massacrerait /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁɛ/	massacrerions /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	massacreriez /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁje/	massacreraient /ma.sa.kʁə.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	massacre /ma.sakʁ/	massacres /ma.sakʁ/	massacre /ma.sakʁ/	massacrions /ma.sa.kʁi.jɔ̃/	massacriez /ma.sa.kʁi.je/	massacrent /ma.sakʁ/
	imperfect2	massacrasse /ma.sa.kʁas/	massacrasses /ma.sa.kʁas/	massacrât /ma.sa.kʁa/	massacrassions /ma.sa.kʁa.sjɔ̃/	massacrassiez /ma.sa.kʁa.sje/	massacrassent /ma.sa.kʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	massacre /ma.sakʁ/	—	massacrons /ma.sa.kʁɔ̃/	massacrez /ma.sa.kʁe/	—
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

• massacre
• massue

Descendants

• → Italian: massacrare
• → Romanian: masacra

Further reading

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