cuirasser

French

Etymology

From cuirasse +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

cuirasser

1. (transitive) to put on (a suit of armour)
2. (figuratively, reflexive, se cuirasser) to prepare for action

Conjugation

Conjugation of cuirasser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cuirasser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cuirassant /kɥi.ʁa.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cuirassé /kɥi.ʁa.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cuirasse /kɥi.ʁas/	cuirasses /kɥi.ʁas/	cuirasse /kɥi.ʁas/	cuirassons /kɥi.ʁa.sɔ̃/	cuirassez /kɥi.ʁa.se/	cuirassent /kɥi.ʁas/
	imperfect	cuirassais /kɥi.ʁa.sɛ/	cuirassais /kɥi.ʁa.sɛ/	cuirassait /kɥi.ʁa.sɛ/	cuirassions /kɥi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	cuirassiez /kɥi.ʁa.sje/	cuirassaient /kɥi.ʁa.sɛ/
	past historic2	cuirassai /kɥi.ʁa.se/	cuirassas /kɥi.ʁa.sa/	cuirassa /kɥi.ʁa.sa/	cuirassâmes /kɥi.ʁa.sam/	cuirassâtes /kɥi.ʁa.sat/	cuirassèrent /kɥi.ʁa.sɛʁ/
	future	cuirasserai /kɥi.ʁa.sʁe/	cuirasseras /kɥi.ʁa.sʁa/	cuirassera /kɥi.ʁa.sʁa/	cuirasserons /kɥi.ʁa.sʁɔ̃/	cuirasserez /kɥi.ʁa.sʁe/	cuirasseront /kɥi.ʁa.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cuirasserais /kɥi.ʁa.sʁɛ/	cuirasserais /kɥi.ʁa.sʁɛ/	cuirasserait /kɥi.ʁa.sʁɛ/	cuirasserions /kɥi.ʁa.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	cuirasseriez /kɥi.ʁa.sə.ʁje/	cuirasseraient /kɥi.ʁa.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	cuirasse /kɥi.ʁas/	cuirasses /kɥi.ʁas/	cuirasse /kɥi.ʁas/	cuirassions /kɥi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	cuirassiez /kɥi.ʁa.sje/	cuirassent /kɥi.ʁas/
	imperfect2	cuirassasse /kɥi.ʁa.sas/	cuirassasses /kɥi.ʁa.sas/	cuirassât /kɥi.ʁa.sa/	cuirassassions /kɥi.ʁa.sa.sjɔ̃/	cuirassassiez /kɥi.ʁa.sa.sje/	cuirassassent /kɥi.ʁa.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cuirasse /kɥi.ʁas/	—	cuirassons /kɥi.ʁa.sɔ̃/	cuirassez /kɥi.ʁa.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

• cuirassé

Further reading

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