remasser

French

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Verb

remasser

1. Archaic form of ramasser. [chiefly before 1900]
   • 1796, M. Perrault, R. S. Gent (translator), Tales of Passed Times by Mother Goose (originally Contes du tems passé de ma mere l’oye), 7^th edition, T. Boosey, pages 125–127:

     Le bucheron ſe mit à couper du bois & ſes enfans à remaſſer les broutilles pour faire des fagots.

     The faggot-maker began to cut wood, and the children to gather up the ſticks to make faggots.

   • Arthur Edwards Jones (quoting Jacques Marquette), The Site of the Mascoutin in 1906 Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsing at its Fifty-Fourth Annual Meeting, Madison, page 179:

     Les Sauvages remassent quantité de prunes et de raisins dont on pourroi faire beaucoup de vin si L’on vouloit.

     The Savages gather quantities of plums and grapes, wherewith much wine could be made, if desired.

   • Gary R. Butler (quoting Paul Sébillot) The Lutin Tradition in French-Newfoundland Culture: Discourse and Belief in 1991 Peter Narváez, The Good People: New Fairylore Essays, Garland Publishing, page 16:

     […] , et comme il est obligé de remasser une à une ces innombrables graines, […]

     […] and as he is obliged to pick up the many grains one grain at a time, […]

Conjugation

Conjugation of remasser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	remasser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	remassant /ʁə.ma.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		remassé /ʁə.ma.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	remasse /ʁə.mas/	remasses /ʁə.mas/	remasse /ʁə.mas/	remassons /ʁə.ma.sɔ̃/	remassez /ʁə.ma.se/	remassent /ʁə.mas/
	imperfect	remassais /ʁə.ma.sɛ/	remassais /ʁə.ma.sɛ/	remassait /ʁə.ma.sɛ/	remassions /ʁə.ma.sjɔ̃/	remassiez /ʁə.ma.sje/	remassaient /ʁə.ma.sɛ/
	past historic2	remassai /ʁə.ma.se/	remassas /ʁə.ma.sa/	remassa /ʁə.ma.sa/	remassâmes /ʁə.ma.sam/	remassâtes /ʁə.ma.sat/	remassèrent /ʁə.ma.sɛʁ/
	future	remasserai /ʁə.ma.sʁe/	remasseras /ʁə.ma.sʁa/	remassera /ʁə.ma.sʁa/	remasserons /ʁə.ma.sʁɔ̃/	remasserez /ʁə.ma.sʁe/	remasseront /ʁə.ma.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	remasserais /ʁə.ma.sʁɛ/	remasserais /ʁə.ma.sʁɛ/	remasserait /ʁə.ma.sʁɛ/	remasserions /ʁə.ma.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	remasseriez /ʁə.ma.sə.ʁje/	remasseraient /ʁə.ma.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	remasse /ʁə.mas/	remasses /ʁə.mas/	remasse /ʁə.mas/	remassions /ʁə.ma.sjɔ̃/	remassiez /ʁə.ma.sje/	remassent /ʁə.mas/
	imperfect2	remassasse /ʁə.ma.sas/	remassasses /ʁə.ma.sas/	remassât /ʁə.ma.sa/	remassassions /ʁə.ma.sa.sjɔ̃/	remassassiez /ʁə.ma.sa.sje/	remassassent /ʁə.ma.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	remasse /ʁə.mas/	—	remassons /ʁə.ma.sɔ̃/	remassez /ʁə.ma.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

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