balafrer

French

Etymology

From balafre +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

balafrer

1. to scar (cause to have a scar, after injury)

Conjugation

Conjugation of balafrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	balafrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	balafrant /ba.la.fʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		balafré /ba.la.fʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	balafre /ba.lafʁ/	balafres /ba.lafʁ/	balafre /ba.lafʁ/	balafrons /ba.la.fʁɔ̃/	balafrez /ba.la.fʁe/	balafrent /ba.lafʁ/
	imperfect	balafrais /ba.la.fʁɛ/	balafrais /ba.la.fʁɛ/	balafrait /ba.la.fʁɛ/	balafrions /ba.la.fʁi.jɔ̃/	balafriez /ba.la.fʁi.je/	balafraient /ba.la.fʁɛ/
	past historic2	balafrai /ba.la.fʁe/	balafras /ba.la.fʁa/	balafra /ba.la.fʁa/	balafrâmes /ba.la.fʁam/	balafrâtes /ba.la.fʁat/	balafrèrent /ba.la.fʁɛʁ/
	future	balafrerai /ba.la.fʁə.ʁe/	balafreras /ba.la.fʁə.ʁa/	balafrera /ba.la.fʁə.ʁa/	balafrerons /ba.la.fʁə.ʁɔ̃/	balafrerez /ba.la.fʁə.ʁe/	balafreront /ba.la.fʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	balafrerais /ba.la.fʁə.ʁɛ/	balafrerais /ba.la.fʁə.ʁɛ/	balafrerait /ba.la.fʁə.ʁɛ/	balafrerions /ba.la.fʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	balafreriez /ba.la.fʁə.ʁje/	balafreraient /ba.la.fʁə.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	balafre /ba.lafʁ/	balafres /ba.lafʁ/	balafre /ba.lafʁ/	balafrions /ba.la.fʁi.jɔ̃/	balafriez /ba.la.fʁi.je/	balafrent /ba.lafʁ/
	imperfect2	balafrasse /ba.la.fʁas/	balafrasses /ba.la.fʁas/	balafrât /ba.la.fʁa/	balafrassions /ba.la.fʁa.sjɔ̃/	balafrassiez /ba.la.fʁa.sje/	balafrassent /ba.la.fʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	balafre /ba.lafʁ/	—	balafrons /ba.la.fʁɔ̃/	balafrez /ba.la.fʁe/	—
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).

Further reading

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