sérancer

French

Etymology

From séran.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se.ʁɑ̃.se/

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Verb

sérancer

1. to hackle (card hemp)

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

Conjugation of sérancer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	sérancer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sérançant /se.ʁɑ̃.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sérancé /se.ʁɑ̃.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sérance /se.ʁɑ̃s/	sérances /se.ʁɑ̃s/	sérance /se.ʁɑ̃s/	sérançons /se.ʁɑ̃.sɔ̃/	sérancez /se.ʁɑ̃.se/	sérancent /se.ʁɑ̃s/
	imperfect	sérançais /se.ʁɑ̃.sɛ/	sérançais /se.ʁɑ̃.sɛ/	sérançait /se.ʁɑ̃.sɛ/	sérancions /se.ʁɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	séranciez /se.ʁɑ̃.sje/	sérançaient /se.ʁɑ̃.sɛ/
	past historic2	sérançai /se.ʁɑ̃.se/	séranças /se.ʁɑ̃.sa/	sérança /se.ʁɑ̃.sa/	sérançâmes /se.ʁɑ̃.sam/	sérançâtes /se.ʁɑ̃.sat/	sérancèrent /se.ʁɑ̃.sɛʁ/
	future	sérancerai /se.ʁɑ̃.sʁe/	séranceras /se.ʁɑ̃.sʁa/	sérancera /se.ʁɑ̃.sʁa/	sérancerons /se.ʁɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/	sérancerez /se.ʁɑ̃.sʁe/	séranceront /se.ʁɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	sérancerais /se.ʁɑ̃.sʁɛ/	sérancerais /se.ʁɑ̃.sʁɛ/	sérancerait /se.ʁɑ̃.sʁɛ/	sérancerions /se.ʁɑ̃.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	séranceriez /se.ʁɑ̃.sə.ʁje/	séranceraient /se.ʁɑ̃.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	sérance /se.ʁɑ̃s/	sérances /se.ʁɑ̃s/	sérance /se.ʁɑ̃s/	sérancions /se.ʁɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	séranciez /se.ʁɑ̃.sje/	sérancent /se.ʁɑ̃s/
	imperfect2	sérançasse /se.ʁɑ̃.sas/	sérançasses /se.ʁɑ̃.sas/	sérançât /se.ʁɑ̃.sa/	sérançassions /se.ʁɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃/	sérançassiez /se.ʁɑ̃.sa.sje/	sérançassent /se.ʁɑ̃.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sérance /se.ʁɑ̃s/	—	sérançons /se.ʁɑ̃.sɔ̃/	sérancez /se.ʁɑ̃.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

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