essarter

French

Etymology

From essart +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

essarter

1. to clear forest land of trees, bushes, etc.; to assart

Conjugation

Conjugation of essarter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	essarter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	essartant /e.saʁ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		essarté /e.saʁ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	essarte /e.saʁt/	essartes /e.saʁt/	essarte /e.saʁt/	essartons /e.saʁ.tɔ̃/	essartez /e.saʁ.te/	essartent /e.saʁt/
	imperfect	essartais /e.saʁ.tɛ/	essartais /e.saʁ.tɛ/	essartait /e.saʁ.tɛ/	essartions /e.saʁ.tjɔ̃/	essartiez /e.saʁ.tje/	essartaient /e.saʁ.tɛ/
	past historic2	essartai /e.saʁ.te/	essartas /e.saʁ.ta/	essarta /e.saʁ.ta/	essartâmes /e.saʁ.tam/	essartâtes /e.saʁ.tat/	essartèrent /e.saʁ.tɛʁ/
	future	essarterai /e.saʁ.tə.ʁe/	essarteras /e.saʁ.tə.ʁa/	essartera /e.saʁ.tə.ʁa/	essarterons /e.saʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/	essarterez /e.saʁ.tə.ʁe/	essarteront /e.saʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	essarterais /e.saʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	essarterais /e.saʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	essarterait /e.saʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	essarterions /e.saʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	essarteriez /e.saʁ.tə.ʁje/	essarteraient /e.saʁ.tə.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	essarte /e.saʁt/	essartes /e.saʁt/	essarte /e.saʁt/	essartions /e.saʁ.tjɔ̃/	essartiez /e.saʁ.tje/	essartent /e.saʁt/
	imperfect2	essartasse /e.saʁ.tas/	essartasses /e.saʁ.tas/	essartât /e.saʁ.ta/	essartassions /e.saʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/	essartassiez /e.saʁ.ta.sje/	essartassent /e.saʁ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	essarte /e.saʁt/	—	essartons /e.saʁ.tɔ̃/	essartez /e.saʁ.te/	—
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

• essartage

Further reading

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