cascader

English

Etymology

cascade +‎ -er

Noun

cascader (plural cascaders)

1. (entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly of the genus Zygonyx, family Libellulidae, which commonly inhabit watercourses with waterfalls.

Anagrams

• carcades, cardcase

French

Etymology

From cascade +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

cascader

1. to cascade

Conjugation

Conjugation of cascader (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cascader
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cascadant /kas.ka.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cascadé /kas.ka.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cascade /kas.kad/	cascades /kas.kad/	cascade /kas.kad/	cascadons /kas.ka.dɔ̃/	cascadez /kas.ka.de/	cascadent /kas.kad/
	imperfect	cascadais /kas.ka.dɛ/	cascadais /kas.ka.dɛ/	cascadait /kas.ka.dɛ/	cascadions /kas.ka.djɔ̃/	cascadiez /kas.ka.dje/	cascadaient /kas.ka.dɛ/
	past historic2	cascadai /kas.ka.de/	cascadas /kas.ka.da/	cascada /kas.ka.da/	cascadâmes /kas.ka.dam/	cascadâtes /kas.ka.dat/	cascadèrent /kas.ka.dɛʁ/
	future	cascaderai /kas.ka.dʁe/	cascaderas /kas.ka.dʁa/	cascadera /kas.ka.dʁa/	cascaderons /kas.ka.dʁɔ̃/	cascaderez /kas.ka.dʁe/	cascaderont /kas.ka.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cascaderais /kas.ka.dʁɛ/	cascaderais /kas.ka.dʁɛ/	cascaderait /kas.ka.dʁɛ/	cascaderions /kas.ka.də.ʁjɔ̃/	cascaderiez /kas.ka.də.ʁje/	cascaderaient /kas.ka.dʁɛ/
(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	cascade /kas.kad/	cascades /kas.kad/	cascade /kas.kad/	cascadions /kas.ka.djɔ̃/	cascadiez /kas.ka.dje/	cascadent /kas.kad/
	imperfect2	cascadasse /kas.ka.das/	cascadasses /kas.ka.das/	cascadât /kas.ka.da/	cascadassions /kas.ka.da.sjɔ̃/	cascadassiez /kas.ka.da.sje/	cascadassent /kas.ka.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cascade /kas.kad/	—	cascadons /kas.ka.dɔ̃/	cascadez /kas.ka.de/	—
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

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

Anagrams

• saccader