massacrer

English

Etymology

From massacre ‎ -er.

Noun

massacrer (plural massacrers)

1. One who massacres.

Translations

one who massacres

• Latin: trucidator

Anagrams

• arms races

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French massacrer, from Old French macecrer, macecler, probably from Vulgar Latin *matteuculāre, from *matteuca (whence French massue), from *mattea or Late Latin mattia, from Latin mateola (“hoe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.sa.kʁe/

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Verb

massacrer

1. to massacre (to kill)
2. (figuratively) to botch (to do something badly)

   Il a massacré cette chanson ― he sung that song really badly (literally, “he massacred that song”)

Conjugation

Conjugation of massacrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	massacrer
	compound	avoir past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	massacrant /ma.sa.kʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant past participle
past participle		massacré /ma.sa.kʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	massacre /ma.sakʁ/	massacres /ma.sakʁ/	massacre /ma.sakʁ/	massacrons /ma.sa.kʁɔ̃/	massacrez /ma.sa.kʁe/	massacrent /ma.sakʁ/
	imperfect	massacrais /ma.sa.kʁɛ/	massacrais /ma.sa.kʁɛ/	massacrait /ma.sa.kʁɛ/	massacrions /ma.sa.kʁi.jɔ̃/	massacriez /ma.sa.kʁi.je/	massacraient /ma.sa.kʁɛ/
	past historic2	massacrai /ma.sa.kʁe/	massacras /ma.sa.kʁa/	massacra /ma.sa.kʁa/	massacrâmes /ma.sa.kʁam/	massacrâtes /ma.sa.kʁat/	massacrèrent /ma.sa.kʁɛʁ/
	future	massacrerai /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁe/	massacreras /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁa/	massacrera /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁa/	massacrerons /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁɔ̃/	massacrerez /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁe/	massacreront /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	massacrerais /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁɛ/	massacrerais /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁɛ/	massacrerait /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁɛ/	massacrerions /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	massacreriez /ma.sa.kʁə.ʁje/	massacreraient /ma.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	massacre /ma.sakʁ/	massacres /ma.sakʁ/	massacre /ma.sakʁ/	massacrions /ma.sa.kʁi.jɔ̃/	massacriez /ma.sa.kʁi.je/	massacrent /ma.sakʁ/
	imperfect2	massacrasse /ma.sa.kʁas/	massacrasses /ma.sa.kʁas/	massacrât /ma.sa.kʁa/	massacrassions /ma.sa.kʁa.sjɔ̃/	massacrassiez /ma.sa.kʁa.sje/	massacrassent /ma.sa.kʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	massacre /ma.sakʁ/	—	massacrons /ma.sa.kʁɔ̃/	massacrez /ma.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).

Related terms

• massacre
• massue

Descendants

• → German: massakrieren
• → Italian: massacrare
• → Romanian: masacra

Further reading

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