sabrer

See also: sâbrer

French

Etymology

From sabre ‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

sabrer

1. (transitive) to slash with a sabre

   Les cavaliers sabrèrent les servants de cette batterie.

   The horsemen cut down the gunners of the artillery battery.

   sabrer à droite et à gauche ― to slash left and right

2. (figuratively) to remove large sections from a text while editing it, to axe

   sabrer de longues tirades ― to axe the pointless monologues

3. to open a bottle, usually champagne, with a slice from a sword

   Ils ont sabré le champagne. ― They sabred the champagne.

Conjugation

Conjugation of sabrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	sabrer
	compound	avoir past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sabrant /sa.bʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant past participle
past participle		sabré /sa.bʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sabre /sabʁ/	sabres /sabʁ/	sabre /sabʁ/	sabrons /sa.bʁɔ̃/	sabrez /sa.bʁe/	sabrent /sabʁ/
	imperfect	sabrais /sa.bʁɛ/	sabrais /sa.bʁɛ/	sabrait /sa.bʁɛ/	sabrions /sa.bʁi.jɔ̃/	sabriez /sa.bʁi.je/	sabraient /sa.bʁɛ/
	past historic2	sabrai /sa.bʁe/	sabras /sa.bʁa/	sabra /sa.bʁa/	sabrâmes /sa.bʁam/	sabrâtes /sa.bʁat/	sabrèrent /sa.bʁɛʁ/
	future	sabrerai /sa.bʁə.ʁe/	sabreras /sa.bʁə.ʁa/	sabrera /sa.bʁə.ʁa/	sabrerons /sa.bʁə.ʁɔ̃/	sabrerez /sa.bʁə.ʁe/	sabreront /sa.bʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	sabrerais /sa.bʁə.ʁɛ/	sabrerais /sa.bʁə.ʁɛ/	sabrerait /sa.bʁə.ʁɛ/	sabrerions /sa.bʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	sabreriez /sa.bʁə.ʁje/	sabreraient /sa.bʁə.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	sabre /sabʁ/	sabres /sabʁ/	sabre /sabʁ/	sabrions /sa.bʁi.jɔ̃/	sabriez /sa.bʁi.je/	sabrent /sabʁ/
	imperfect2	sabrasse /sa.bʁas/	sabrasses /sa.bʁas/	sabrât /sa.bʁa/	sabrassions /sa.bʁa.sjɔ̃/	sabrassiez /sa.bʁa.sje/	sabrassent /sa.bʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sabre /sabʁ/	—	sabrons /sa.bʁɔ̃/	sabrez /sa.bʁe/	—
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

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

Anagrams

• arbres, barres, barrés, braser

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sabreur.

Noun

sabrer m (plural sabreri)

1. swordsman

Declension

Declension of sabrer

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) sabrer	sabrerul	(niște) sabreri	sabrerii
genitive/dative	(unui) sabrer	sabrerului	(unor) sabreri	sabrerilor
vocative	sabrerule		sabrerilor