tabasser

French

Etymology

From tabac +‎ -asser; see passer à tabac, taper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.ba.se/

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Verb

tabasser

1. beat up (to give a beating to)
2. to thwack, clobber

Conjugation

Conjugation of tabasser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tabasser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tabassant /ta.ba.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tabassé /ta.ba.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tabasse /ta.bas/	tabasses /ta.bas/	tabasse /ta.bas/	tabassons /ta.ba.sɔ̃/	tabassez /ta.ba.se/	tabassent /ta.bas/
	imperfect	tabassais /ta.ba.sɛ/	tabassais /ta.ba.sɛ/	tabassait /ta.ba.sɛ/	tabassions /ta.ba.sjɔ̃/	tabassiez /ta.ba.sje/	tabassaient /ta.ba.sɛ/
	past historic2	tabassai /ta.ba.se/	tabassas /ta.ba.sa/	tabassa /ta.ba.sa/	tabassâmes /ta.ba.sam/	tabassâtes /ta.ba.sat/	tabassèrent /ta.ba.sɛʁ/
	future	tabasserai /ta.ba.sʁe/	tabasseras /ta.ba.sʁa/	tabassera /ta.ba.sʁa/	tabasserons /ta.ba.sʁɔ̃/	tabasserez /ta.ba.sʁe/	tabasseront /ta.ba.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tabasserais /ta.ba.sʁɛ/	tabasserais /ta.ba.sʁɛ/	tabasserait /ta.ba.sʁɛ/	tabasserions /ta.ba.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	tabasseriez /ta.ba.sə.ʁje/	tabasseraient /ta.ba.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	tabasse /ta.bas/	tabasses /ta.bas/	tabasse /ta.bas/	tabassions /ta.ba.sjɔ̃/	tabassiez /ta.ba.sje/	tabassent /ta.bas/
	imperfect2	tabassasse /ta.ba.sas/	tabassasses /ta.ba.sas/	tabassât /ta.ba.sa/	tabassassions /ta.ba.sa.sjɔ̃/	tabassassiez /ta.ba.sa.sje/	tabassassent /ta.ba.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tabasse /ta.bas/	—	tabassons /ta.ba.sɔ̃/	tabassez /ta.ba.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).

References

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• brasâtes, sabrâtes