pacser

French

Etymology

From PACS +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pak.se/

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Verb

pacser

1. (intransitive) to enter into a civil partnership

   ma sœur s’est pacsée avec son amie

   my sister has entered into a civil partnership with her girlfriend

Conjugation

Conjugation of pacser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pacser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pacsant /pak.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pacsé /pak.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pacse /paks/	pacses /paks/	pacse /paks/	pacsons /pak.sɔ̃/	pacsez /pak.se/	pacsent /paks/
	imperfect	pacsais /pak.sɛ/	pacsais /pak.sɛ/	pacsait /pak.sɛ/	pacsions /pak.sjɔ̃/	pacsiez /pak.sje/	pacsaient /pak.sɛ/
	past historic2	pacsai /pak.se/	pacsas /pak.sa/	pacsa /pak.sa/	pacsâmes /pak.sam/	pacsâtes /pak.sat/	pacsèrent /pak.sɛʁ/
	future	pacserai /pak.sə.ʁe/	pacseras /pak.sə.ʁa/	pacsera /pak.sə.ʁa/	pacserons /pak.sə.ʁɔ̃/	pacserez /pak.sə.ʁe/	pacseront /pak.sə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pacserais /pak.sə.ʁɛ/	pacserais /pak.sə.ʁɛ/	pacserait /pak.sə.ʁɛ/	pacserions /pak.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	pacseriez /pak.sə.ʁje/	pacseraient /pak.sə.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	pacse /paks/	pacses /paks/	pacse /paks/	pacsions /pak.sjɔ̃/	pacsiez /pak.sje/	pacsent /paks/
	imperfect2	pacsasse /pak.sas/	pacsasses /pak.sas/	pacsât /pak.sa/	pacsassions /pak.sa.sjɔ̃/	pacsassiez /pak.sa.sje/	pacsassent /pak.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pacse /paks/	—	pacsons /pak.sɔ̃/	pacsez /pak.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).

Further reading

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