menacer

English

Etymology

menace +‎ -er

Noun

menacer (plural menacers)

1. One who menaces.
   • 1921, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan the Terrible:

     Like a frightened deer Pan-at-lee cast a single startled look at these menacers of her freedom and leaped quickly toward the bushes in an effort to escape […]

Anagrams

• acremen

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French menacier, manecier, from Vulgar Latin *mināciāre, from Latin minācia (“threat”). Equivalent to menace +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mə.na.se/

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Verb

menacer

1. to threaten, to jeopardise
2. to endanger, to menace

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

Conjugation of menacer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	menacer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	menaçant /mə.na.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		menacé /mə.na.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	menace /mə.nas/	menaces /mə.nas/	menace /mə.nas/	menaçons /mə.na.sɔ̃/	menacez /mə.na.se/	menacent /mə.nas/
	imperfect	menaçais /mə.na.sɛ/	menaçais /mə.na.sɛ/	menaçait /mə.na.sɛ/	menacions /mə.na.sjɔ̃/	menaciez /mə.na.sje/	menaçaient /mə.na.sɛ/
	past historic2	menaçai /mə.na.se/	menaças /mə.na.sa/	menaça /mə.na.sa/	menaçâmes /mə.na.sam/	menaçâtes /mə.na.sat/	menacèrent /mə.na.sɛʁ/
	future	menacerai /mə.na.sʁe/	menaceras /mə.na.sʁa/	menacera /mə.na.sʁa/	menacerons /mə.na.sʁɔ̃/	menacerez /mə.na.sʁe/	menaceront /mə.na.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	menacerais /mə.na.sʁɛ/	menacerais /mə.na.sʁɛ/	menacerait /mə.na.sʁɛ/	menacerions /mə.na.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	menaceriez /mə.na.sə.ʁje/	menaceraient /mə.na.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	menace /mə.nas/	menaces /mə.nas/	menace /mə.nas/	menacions /mə.na.sjɔ̃/	menaciez /mə.na.sje/	menacent /mə.nas/
	imperfect2	menaçasse /mə.na.sas/	menaçasses /mə.na.sas/	menaçât /mə.na.sa/	menaçassions /mə.na.sa.sjɔ̃/	menaçassiez /mə.na.sa.sje/	menaçassent /mə.na.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	menace /mə.nas/	—	menaçons /mə.na.sɔ̃/	menacez /mə.na.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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• menacer ruine

Related terms

• menace

Further reading

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