jacasser
French edit
Etymology edit
From jacques (“magpie”); male proper names were often applied to birds, such as pierrot (“sparrow”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
jacasser
- (intransitive, of a magpie) to caw
- (figuratively, intransitive) to chatter, to gossip, to jabber
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of jacasser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | jacasser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | jacassant /ʒa.ka.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | jacassé /ʒa.ka.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | jacasse /ʒa.kas/ |
jacasses /ʒa.kas/ |
jacasse /ʒa.kas/ |
jacassons /ʒa.ka.sɔ̃/ |
jacassez /ʒa.ka.se/ |
jacassent /ʒa.kas/ |
| imperfect | jacassais /ʒa.ka.sɛ/ |
jacassais /ʒa.ka.sɛ/ |
jacassait /ʒa.ka.sɛ/ |
jacassions /ʒa.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
jacassiez /ʒa.ka.sje/ |
jacassaient /ʒa.ka.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | jacassai /ʒa.ka.se/ |
jacassas /ʒa.ka.sa/ |
jacassa /ʒa.ka.sa/ |
jacassâmes /ʒa.ka.sam/ |
jacassâtes /ʒa.ka.sat/ |
jacassèrent /ʒa.ka.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | jacasserai /ʒa.ka.sʁe/ |
jacasseras /ʒa.ka.sʁa/ |
jacassera /ʒa.ka.sʁa/ |
jacasserons /ʒa.ka.sʁɔ̃/ |
jacasserez /ʒa.ka.sʁe/ |
jacasseront /ʒa.ka.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | jacasserais /ʒa.ka.sʁɛ/ |
jacasserais /ʒa.ka.sʁɛ/ |
jacasserait /ʒa.ka.sʁɛ/ |
jacasserions /ʒa.ka.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
jacasseriez /ʒa.ka.sə.ʁje/ |
jacasseraient /ʒa.ka.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 | jacasse /ʒa.kas/ |
jacasses /ʒa.kas/ |
jacasse /ʒa.kas/ |
jacassions /ʒa.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
jacassiez /ʒa.ka.sje/ |
jacassent /ʒa.kas/ |
| imperfect2 | jacassasse /ʒa.ka.sas/ |
jacassasses /ʒa.ka.sas/ |
jacassât /ʒa.ka.sa/ |
jacassassions /ʒa.ka.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
jacassassiez /ʒa.ka.sa.sje/ |
jacassassent /ʒa.ka.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | jacasse /ʒa.kas/ |
— | jacassons /ʒa.ka.sɔ̃/ |
jacassez /ʒa.ka.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “jacasser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.