stresser

French

Etymology

From stress +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stʁɛ.se/ ~ /stʁe.se/

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Verb

stresser

1. (transitive) to stress (cause stress to)
2. (intransitive) to become stressed, to stress out

Conjugation

Conjugation of stresser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	stresser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	stressant /stʁɛ.sɑ̃/ or /stʁe.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		stressé /stʁɛ.se/ or /stʁe.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	stresse /stʁɛs/	stresses /stʁɛs/	stresse /stʁɛs/	stressons /stʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /stʁe.sɔ̃/	stressez /stʁɛ.se/ or /stʁe.se/	stressent /stʁɛs/
	imperfect	stressais /stʁɛ.sɛ/ or /stʁe.sɛ/	stressais /stʁɛ.sɛ/ or /stʁe.sɛ/	stressait /stʁɛ.sɛ/ or /stʁe.sɛ/	stressions /stʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /stʁe.sjɔ̃/	stressiez /stʁɛ.sje/ or /stʁe.sje/	stressaient /stʁɛ.sɛ/ or /stʁe.sɛ/
	past historic2	stressai /stʁɛ.se/ or /stʁe.se/	stressas /stʁɛ.sa/ or /stʁe.sa/	stressa /stʁɛ.sa/ or /stʁe.sa/	stressâmes /stʁɛ.sam/ or /stʁe.sam/	stressâtes /stʁɛ.sat/ or /stʁe.sat/	stressèrent /stʁɛ.sɛʁ/ or /stʁe.sɛʁ/
	future	stresserai /stʁɛ.sʁe/ or /stʁe.sʁe/	stresseras /stʁɛ.sʁa/ or /stʁe.sʁa/	stressera /stʁɛ.sʁa/ or /stʁe.sʁa/	stresserons /stʁɛ.sʁɔ̃/ or /stʁe.sʁɔ̃/	stresserez /stʁɛ.sʁe/ or /stʁe.sʁe/	stresseront /stʁɛ.sʁɔ̃/ or /stʁe.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	stresserais /stʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /stʁe.sʁɛ/	stresserais /stʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /stʁe.sʁɛ/	stresserait /stʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /stʁe.sʁɛ/	stresserions /stʁɛ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /stʁe.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	stresseriez /stʁɛ.sə.ʁje/ or /stʁe.sə.ʁje/	stresseraient /stʁɛ.sʁɛ/ or /stʁe.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	stresse /stʁɛs/	stresses /stʁɛs/	stresse /stʁɛs/	stressions /stʁɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /stʁe.sjɔ̃/	stressiez /stʁɛ.sje/ or /stʁe.sje/	stressent /stʁɛs/
	imperfect2	stressasse /stʁɛ.sas/ or /stʁe.sas/	stressasses /stʁɛ.sas/ or /stʁe.sas/	stressât /stʁɛ.sa/ or /stʁe.sa/	stressassions /stʁɛ.sa.sjɔ̃/ or /stʁe.sa.sjɔ̃/	stressassiez /stʁɛ.sa.sje/ or /stʁe.sa.sje/	stressassent /stʁɛ.sas/ or /stʁe.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	stresse /stʁɛs/	—	stressons /stʁɛ.sɔ̃/ or /stʁe.sɔ̃/	stressez /stʁɛ.se/ or /stʁe.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).

Derived terms

• stressant

Further reading

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

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Verb

stresser

1. present of stresse