fracturer

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

fracturer

1. (transitive) to fracture

Conjugation

Conjugation of fracturer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	fracturer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	fracturant /fʁak.ty.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		fracturé /fʁak.ty.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	fracture /fʁak.tyʁ/	fractures /fʁak.tyʁ/	fracture /fʁak.tyʁ/	fracturons /fʁak.ty.ʁɔ̃/	fracturez /fʁak.ty.ʁe/	fracturent /fʁak.tyʁ/
	imperfect	fracturais /fʁak.ty.ʁɛ/	fracturais /fʁak.ty.ʁɛ/	fracturait /fʁak.ty.ʁɛ/	fracturions /fʁak.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	fracturiez /fʁak.ty.ʁje/	fracturaient /fʁak.ty.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	fracturai /fʁak.ty.ʁe/	fracturas /fʁak.ty.ʁa/	fractura /fʁak.ty.ʁa/	fracturâmes /fʁak.ty.ʁam/	fracturâtes /fʁak.ty.ʁat/	fracturèrent /fʁak.ty.ʁɛʁ/
	future	fracturerai /fʁak.ty.ʁə.ʁe/	fractureras /fʁak.ty.ʁə.ʁa/	fracturera /fʁak.ty.ʁə.ʁa/	fracturerons /fʁak.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	fracturerez /fʁak.ty.ʁə.ʁe/	fractureront /fʁak.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	fracturerais /fʁak.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	fracturerais /fʁak.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	fracturerait /fʁak.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	fracturerions /fʁak.ty.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	fractureriez /fʁak.ty.ʁə.ʁje/	fractureraient /fʁak.ty.ʁə.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	fracture /fʁak.tyʁ/	fractures /fʁak.tyʁ/	fracture /fʁak.tyʁ/	fracturions /fʁak.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	fracturiez /fʁak.ty.ʁje/	fracturent /fʁak.tyʁ/
	imperfect2	fracturasse /fʁak.ty.ʁas/	fracturasses /fʁak.ty.ʁas/	fracturât /fʁak.ty.ʁa/	fracturassions /fʁak.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	fracturassiez /fʁak.ty.ʁa.sje/	fracturassent /fʁak.ty.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	fracture /fʁak.tyʁ/	—	fracturons /fʁak.ty.ʁɔ̃/	fracturez /fʁak.ty.ʁe/	—
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).

Related terms

• fracture

Further reading

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