sacrer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sacrāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.kʁe/

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Verb

sacrer

1. (transitive) to crown
2. (transitive) to post (nominate to a certain post or position)
3. (transitive, North America) whack; slam (put violently)

   sacrer un coup de poing sur la table

   to slam one's fist on the table.

4. (intransitive, North America) to swear, curse; to run one's mouth
5. (intransitive, Louisiana) to throw, to fling

Conjugation

Conjugation of sacrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	sacrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sacrant /sa.kʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sacré /sa.kʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sacre /sakʁ/	sacres /sakʁ/	sacre /sakʁ/	sacrons /sa.kʁɔ̃/	sacrez /sa.kʁe/	sacrent /sakʁ/
	imperfect	sacrais /sa.kʁɛ/	sacrais /sa.kʁɛ/	sacrait /sa.kʁɛ/	sacrions /sa.kʁi.jɔ̃/	sacriez /sa.kʁi.je/	sacraient /sa.kʁɛ/
	past historic2	sacrai /sa.kʁe/	sacras /sa.kʁa/	sacra /sa.kʁa/	sacrâmes /sa.kʁam/	sacrâtes /sa.kʁat/	sacrèrent /sa.kʁɛʁ/
	future	sacrerai /sa.kʁə.ʁe/	sacreras /sa.kʁə.ʁa/	sacrera /sa.kʁə.ʁa/	sacrerons /sa.kʁə.ʁɔ̃/	sacrerez /sa.kʁə.ʁe/	sacreront /sa.kʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	sacrerais /sa.kʁə.ʁɛ/	sacrerais /sa.kʁə.ʁɛ/	sacrerait /sa.kʁə.ʁɛ/	sacrerions /sa.kʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	sacreriez /sa.kʁə.ʁje/	sacreraient /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	sacre /sakʁ/	sacres /sakʁ/	sacre /sakʁ/	sacrions /sa.kʁi.jɔ̃/	sacriez /sa.kʁi.je/	sacrent /sakʁ/
	imperfect2	sacrasse /sa.kʁas/	sacrasses /sa.kʁas/	sacrât /sa.kʁa/	sacrassions /sa.kʁa.sjɔ̃/	sacrassiez /sa.kʁa.sje/	sacrassent /sa.kʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sacre /sakʁ/	—	sacrons /sa.kʁɔ̃/	sacrez /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).

Derived terms

• sacré
• sacrer comme un bûcheron

Related terms

• sacrement
• serment

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• carres, carrés, racers

Latin

Verb

sacrer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of sacrō