Inherited from Middle French fraser, fraiser, from Old French fraser, from Vulgar Latin *frēsāre, from the Late Latin term (faba) frēsa (“ground bean”), from frēsus (“crushed”), from the verb frendō (“to crush, gnash”).
fraser
| infinitive | simple | fraser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | frasant /fʁa.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | frasé /fʁa.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | frase /fʁaz/ |
frases /fʁaz/ |
frase /fʁaz/ |
frasons /fʁa.zɔ̃/ |
frasez /fʁa.ze/ |
frasent /fʁaz/ |
| imperfect | frasais /fʁa.zɛ/ |
frasais /fʁa.zɛ/ |
frasait /fʁa.zɛ/ |
frasions /fʁa.zjɔ̃/ |
frasiez /fʁa.zje/ |
frasaient /fʁa.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | frasai /fʁa.ze/ |
frasas /fʁa.za/ |
frasa /fʁa.za/ |
frasâmes /fʁa.zam/ |
frasâtes /fʁa.zat/ |
frasèrent /fʁa.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | fraserai /fʁaz.ʁe/ |
fraseras /fʁaz.ʁa/ |
frasera /fʁaz.ʁa/ |
fraserons /fʁaz.ʁɔ̃/ |
fraserez /fʁaz.ʁe/ |
fraseront /fʁaz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | fraserais /fʁaz.ʁɛ/ |
fraserais /fʁaz.ʁɛ/ |
fraserait /fʁaz.ʁɛ/ |
fraserions /fʁa.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
fraseriez /fʁa.zə.ʁje/ |
fraseraient /fʁaz.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 | frase /fʁaz/ |
frases /fʁaz/ |
frase /fʁaz/ |
frasions /fʁa.zjɔ̃/ |
frasiez /fʁa.zje/ |
frasent /fʁaz/ |
| imperfect2 | frasasse /fʁa.zas/ |
frasasses /fʁa.zas/ |
frasât /fʁa.za/ |
frasassions /fʁa.za.sjɔ̃/ |
frasassiez /fʁa.za.sje/ |
frasassent /fʁa.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | frase /fʁaz/ |
— | frasons /fʁa.zɔ̃/ |
frasez /fʁa.ze/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
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