agacer
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French aacier, from Vulgar Latin *adacidare, from Latin acidare, influenced by Old French agu (“needle”) (modern aigu).[1]
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
agacer
- to irritate
- Synonyms: casser les pieds, énerver, ennuyer, enquiquiner, emmerder, faire chier, importuner
- to tease
ConjugationEdit
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 agacer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | agacer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | agaçant /a.ɡa.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | agacé /a.ɡa.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | agace /a.ɡas/ |
agaces /a.ɡas/ |
agace /a.ɡas/ |
agaçons /a.ɡa.sɔ̃/ |
agacez /a.ɡa.se/ |
agacent /a.ɡas/ |
| imperfect | agaçais /a.ɡa.sɛ/ |
agaçais /a.ɡa.sɛ/ |
agaçait /a.ɡa.sɛ/ |
agacions /a.ɡa.sjɔ̃/ |
agaciez /a.ɡa.sje/ |
agaçaient /a.ɡa.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | agaçai /a.ɡa.se/ |
agaças /a.ɡa.sa/ |
agaça /a.ɡa.sa/ |
agaçâmes /a.ɡa.sam/ |
agaçâtes /a.ɡa.sat/ |
agacèrent /a.ɡa.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | agacerai /a.ɡa.sʁe/ |
agaceras /a.ɡa.sʁa/ |
agacera /a.ɡa.sʁa/ |
agacerons /a.ɡa.sʁɔ̃/ |
agacerez /a.ɡa.sʁe/ |
agaceront /a.ɡa.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | agacerais /a.ɡa.sʁɛ/ |
agacerais /a.ɡa.sʁɛ/ |
agacerait /a.ɡa.sʁɛ/ |
agacerions /a.ɡa.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
agaceriez /a.ɡa.sə.ʁje/ |
agaceraient /a.ɡa.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 | agace /a.ɡas/ |
agaces /a.ɡas/ |
agace /a.ɡas/ |
agacions /a.ɡa.sjɔ̃/ |
agaciez /a.ɡa.sje/ |
agacent /a.ɡas/ |
| imperfect2 | agaçasse /a.ɡa.sas/ |
agaçasses /a.ɡa.sas/ |
agaçât /a.ɡa.sa/ |
agaçassions /a.ɡa.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
agaçassiez /a.ɡa.sa.sje/ |
agaçassent /a.ɡa.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | agace /a.ɡas/ |
— | agaçons /a.ɡa.sɔ̃/ |
agacez /a.ɡa.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 only usable with the preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
DescendantsEdit
- → German: agacieren
Further readingEdit
- “agacer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
ReferencesEdit
- ^ “agacer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).