rapetasser

French

Etymology

From ra- +‎ Franco-Provençal petassar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁap.ta.se/, /ʁa.pə.ta.se/

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Verb

rapetasser

1. (transitive, informal) to patch up

Conjugation

Conjugation of rapetasser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rapetasser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rapetassant /ʁap.ta.sɑ̃/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rapetassé /ʁap.ta.se/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rapetasse /ʁap.tas/ or /ʁa.pə.tas/	rapetasses /ʁap.tas/ or /ʁa.pə.tas/	rapetasse /ʁap.tas/ or /ʁa.pə.tas/	rapetassons /ʁap.ta.sɔ̃/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sɔ̃/	rapetassez /ʁap.ta.se/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.se/	rapetassent /ʁap.tas/ or /ʁa.pə.tas/
	imperfect	rapetassais /ʁap.ta.sɛ/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sɛ/	rapetassais /ʁap.ta.sɛ/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sɛ/	rapetassait /ʁap.ta.sɛ/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sɛ/	rapetassions /ʁap.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sjɔ̃/	rapetassiez /ʁap.ta.sje/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sje/	rapetassaient /ʁap.ta.sɛ/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sɛ/
	past historic2	rapetassai /ʁap.ta.se/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.se/	rapetassas /ʁap.ta.sa/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sa/	rapetassa /ʁap.ta.sa/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sa/	rapetassâmes /ʁap.ta.sam/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sam/	rapetassâtes /ʁap.ta.sat/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sat/	rapetassèrent /ʁap.ta.sɛʁ/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sɛʁ/
	future	rapetasserai /ʁap.ta.sʁe/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sʁe/	rapetasseras /ʁap.ta.sʁa/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sʁa/	rapetassera /ʁap.ta.sʁa/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sʁa/	rapetasserons /ʁap.ta.sʁɔ̃/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sʁɔ̃/	rapetasserez /ʁap.ta.sʁe/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sʁe/	rapetasseront /ʁap.ta.sʁɔ̃/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rapetasserais /ʁap.ta.sʁɛ/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sʁɛ/	rapetasserais /ʁap.ta.sʁɛ/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sʁɛ/	rapetasserait /ʁap.ta.sʁɛ/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sʁɛ/	rapetasserions /ʁap.ta.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	rapetasseriez /ʁap.ta.sə.ʁje/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sə.ʁje/	rapetasseraient /ʁap.ta.sʁɛ/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.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	rapetasse /ʁap.tas/ or /ʁa.pə.tas/	rapetasses /ʁap.tas/ or /ʁa.pə.tas/	rapetasse /ʁap.tas/ or /ʁa.pə.tas/	rapetassions /ʁap.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sjɔ̃/	rapetassiez /ʁap.ta.sje/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sje/	rapetassent /ʁap.tas/ or /ʁa.pə.tas/
	imperfect2	rapetassasse /ʁap.ta.sas/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sas/	rapetassasses /ʁap.ta.sas/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sas/	rapetassât /ʁap.ta.sa/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sa/	rapetassassions /ʁap.ta.sa.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sa.sjɔ̃/	rapetassassiez /ʁap.ta.sa.sje/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sa.sje/	rapetassassent /ʁap.ta.sas/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rapetasse /ʁap.tas/ or /ʁa.pə.tas/	—	rapetassons /ʁap.ta.sɔ̃/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.sɔ̃/	rapetassez /ʁap.ta.se/ or /ʁa.pə.ta.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).

Further reading

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