assener
See also: asséner
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French assener, from Old French asener, from sen (“direction”), from Frankish *sinn (“sense, mental faculty, way, direction”). By surface analysis, a- + sens + -er.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
assener
Conjugation edit
This verb is conjugated like parler, except the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-, as in the third-person singular present indicative il assène and the third-person singular future indicative il assènera.
Conjugation of assener (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | assener | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | assenant /as.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | assené /as.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | assène /a.sɛn/ |
assènes /a.sɛn/ |
assène /a.sɛn/ |
assenons /as.nɔ̃/ |
assenez /as.ne/ |
assènent /a.sɛn/ |
| imperfect | assenais /as.nɛ/ |
assenais /as.nɛ/ |
assenait /as.nɛ/ |
assenions /a.sə.njɔ̃/ |
asseniez /a.sə.nje/ |
assenaient /as.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | assenai /as.ne/ |
assenas /as.na/ |
assena /as.na/ |
assenâmes /as.nam/ |
assenâtes /as.nat/ |
assenèrent /as.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | assènerai /a.sɛn.ʁe/ |
assèneras /a.sɛn.ʁa/ |
assènera /a.sɛn.ʁa/ |
assènerons /a.sɛn.ʁɔ̃/ |
assènerez /a.sɛn.ʁe/ |
assèneront /a.sɛn.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | assènerais /a.sɛn.ʁɛ/ |
assènerais /a.sɛn.ʁɛ/ |
assènerait /a.sɛn.ʁɛ/ |
assènerions /a.sɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.se.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
assèneriez /a.sɛ.nə.ʁje/ or /a.se.nə.ʁje/ |
assèneraient /a.sɛn.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 | assène /a.sɛn/ |
assènes /a.sɛn/ |
assène /a.sɛn/ |
assenions /a.sə.njɔ̃/ |
asseniez /a.sə.nje/ |
assènent /a.sɛn/ |
| imperfect2 | assenasse /as.nas/ |
assenasses /as.nas/ |
assenât /as.na/ |
assenassions /as.na.sjɔ̃/ |
assenassiez /as.na.sje/ |
assenassent /as.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | assène /a.sɛn/ |
— | assenons /as.nɔ̃/ |
assenez /as.ne/ |
— | |
| 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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||