assassiner

French

Etymology

From assassin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sa.si.ne/

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Verb

assassiner

1. (transitive) to assassinate

Conjugation

Conjugation of assassiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	assassiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	assassinant /a.sa.si.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		assassiné /a.sa.si.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	assassine /a.sa.sin/	assassines /a.sa.sin/	assassine /a.sa.sin/	assassinons /a.sa.si.nɔ̃/	assassinez /a.sa.si.ne/	assassinent /a.sa.sin/
	imperfect	assassinais /a.sa.si.nɛ/	assassinais /a.sa.si.nɛ/	assassinait /a.sa.si.nɛ/	assassinions /a.sa.si.njɔ̃/	assassiniez /a.sa.si.nje/	assassinaient /a.sa.si.nɛ/
	past historic2	assassinai /a.sa.si.ne/	assassinas /a.sa.si.na/	assassina /a.sa.si.na/	assassinâmes /a.sa.si.nam/	assassinâtes /a.sa.si.nat/	assassinèrent /a.sa.si.nɛʁ/
	future	assassinerai /a.sa.sin.ʁe/	assassineras /a.sa.sin.ʁa/	assassinera /a.sa.sin.ʁa/	assassinerons /a.sa.sin.ʁɔ̃/	assassinerez /a.sa.sin.ʁe/	assassineront /a.sa.sin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	assassinerais /a.sa.sin.ʁɛ/	assassinerais /a.sa.sin.ʁɛ/	assassinerait /a.sa.sin.ʁɛ/	assassinerions /a.sa.si.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	assassineriez /a.sa.si.nə.ʁje/	assassineraient /a.sa.sin.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	assassine /a.sa.sin/	assassines /a.sa.sin/	assassine /a.sa.sin/	assassinions /a.sa.si.njɔ̃/	assassiniez /a.sa.si.nje/	assassinent /a.sa.sin/
	imperfect2	assassinasse /a.sa.si.nas/	assassinasses /a.sa.si.nas/	assassinât /a.sa.si.na/	assassinassions /a.sa.si.na.sjɔ̃/	assassinassiez /a.sa.si.na.sje/	assassinassent /a.sa.si.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	assassine /a.sa.sin/	—	assassinons /a.sa.si.nɔ̃/	assassinez /a.sa.si.ne/	—
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

• assassin
• assassinat

Further reading

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