remasser

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French

Pronunciation

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Verb

remasser

  1. Archaic form of ramasser.
    • 1796, M. Perrault, R. S. Gent (translator), Tales of Passed Times by Mother Goose (originally Contes du tems passé de ma mere l’oye), 7th edition, T. Boosey, pages 125–127:
      Le bucheron ſe mit à couper du bois & ſes enfans à remaſſer les broutilles pour faire des fagots.
      The faggot-maker began to cut wood, and the children to gather up the ſticks to make faggots.
    • Arthur Edwards Jones (quoting Jacques Marquette), The Site of the Mascoutin in 1906 Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsing at its Fifty-Fourth Annual Meeting, Madison, page 179:
      Les Sauvages remassent quantité de prunes et de raisins dont on pourroi faire beaucoup de vin si L’on vouloit.
      The Savages gather quantities of plums and grapes, wherewith much wine could be made, if desired.
    • Gary R. Butler (quoting Paul Sébillot) The Lutin Tradition in French-Newfoundland Culture: Discourse and Belief in 1991 Peter Narváez, The Good People: New Fairylore Essays, Garland Publishing, page 16:
      […] , et comme il est obligé de remasser une à une ces innombrables graines, […]
      and as he is obliged to pick up the many grains one grain at a time,

Conjugation

Conjugation of remasser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple remasser
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple remassant
/ʁə.ma.sɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle remassé
/ʁə.ma.se/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present remasse
/ʁə.mas/ 		remasses
/ʁə.mas/ 		remasse
/ʁə.mas/ 		remassons
/ʁə.ma.sɔ̃/ 		remassez
/ʁə.ma.se/ 		remassent
/ʁə.mas/
imperfect remassais
/ʁə.ma.sɛ/ 		remassais
/ʁə.ma.sɛ/ 		remassait
/ʁə.ma.sɛ/ 		remassions
/ʁə.ma.sjɔ̃/ 		remassiez
/ʁə.ma.sje/ 		remassaient
/ʁə.ma.sɛ/
past historic2 remassai
/ʁə.ma.se/ 		remassas
/ʁə.ma.sa/ 		remassa
/ʁə.ma.sa/ 		remassâmes
/ʁə.ma.sam/ 		remassâtes
/ʁə.ma.sat/ 		remassèrent
/ʁə.ma.sɛʁ/
future remasserai
/ʁə.ma.sʁe/ 		remasseras
/ʁə.ma.sʁa/ 		remassera
/ʁə.ma.sʁa/ 		remasserons
/ʁə.ma.sʁɔ̃/ 		remasserez
/ʁə.ma.sʁe/ 		remasseront
/ʁə.ma.sʁɔ̃/
conditional remasserais
/ʁə.ma.sʁɛ/ 		remasserais
/ʁə.ma.sʁɛ/ 		remasserait
/ʁə.ma.sʁɛ/ 		remasserions
/ʁə.ma.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		remasseriez
/ʁə.ma.sə.ʁje/ 		remasseraient
/ʁə.ma.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 remasse
/ʁə.mas/ 		remasses
/ʁə.mas/ 		remasse
/ʁə.mas/ 		remassions
/ʁə.ma.sjɔ̃/ 		remassiez
/ʁə.ma.sje/ 		remassent
/ʁə.mas/
imperfect2 remassasse
/ʁə.ma.sas/ 		remassasses
/ʁə.ma.sas/ 		remassât
/ʁə.ma.sa/ 		remassassions
/ʁə.ma.sa.sjɔ̃/ 		remassassiez
/ʁə.ma.sa.sje/ 		remassassent
/ʁə.ma.sas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — remasse
/ʁə.mas/ 		— remassons
/ʁə.ma.sɔ̃/ 		remassez
/ʁə.ma.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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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