sabrer
See also: sâbrer
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Etymology edit
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Verb edit
sabrer
- (transitive) to slash with a sabre
- Les cavaliers sabrèrent les servants de cette batterie.
- The horsemen cut down the gunners of the artillery battery.
- sabrer à droite et à gauche ― to slash left and right
- (figuratively) to remove large sections from a text while editing it, to axe
- sabrer de longues tirades ― to axe the pointless monologues
- to open a bottle, usually champagne, with a slice from a sword
- Ils ont sabré le champagne. ― They sabred the champagne.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of sabrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | sabrer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | sabrant /sa.bʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | sabré /sa.bʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | sabre /sabʁ/ |
sabres /sabʁ/ |
sabre /sabʁ/ |
sabrons /sa.bʁɔ̃/ |
sabrez /sa.bʁe/ |
sabrent /sabʁ/ |
| imperfect | sabrais /sa.bʁɛ/ |
sabrais /sa.bʁɛ/ |
sabrait /sa.bʁɛ/ |
sabrions /sa.bʁi.jɔ̃/ |
sabriez /sa.bʁi.je/ |
sabraient /sa.bʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | sabrai /sa.bʁe/ |
sabras /sa.bʁa/ |
sabra /sa.bʁa/ |
sabrâmes /sa.bʁam/ |
sabrâtes /sa.bʁat/ |
sabrèrent /sa.bʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | sabrerai /sa.bʁə.ʁe/ |
sabreras /sa.bʁə.ʁa/ |
sabrera /sa.bʁə.ʁa/ |
sabrerons /sa.bʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
sabrerez /sa.bʁə.ʁe/ |
sabreront /sa.bʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | sabrerais /sa.bʁə.ʁɛ/ |
sabrerais /sa.bʁə.ʁɛ/ |
sabrerait /sa.bʁə.ʁɛ/ |
sabrerions /sa.bʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
sabreriez /sa.bʁə.ʁje/ |
sabreraient /sa.bʁə.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 | sabre /sabʁ/ |
sabres /sabʁ/ |
sabre /sabʁ/ |
sabrions /sa.bʁi.jɔ̃/ |
sabriez /sa.bʁi.je/ |
sabrent /sabʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | sabrasse /sa.bʁas/ |
sabrasses /sa.bʁas/ |
sabrât /sa.bʁa/ |
sabrassions /sa.bʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
sabrassiez /sa.bʁa.sje/ |
sabrassent /sa.bʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | sabre /sabʁ/ |
— | sabrons /sa.bʁɔ̃/ |
sabrez /sa.bʁe/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading edit
- “sabrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
sabrer m (plural sabreri)
Declension edit
Declension of sabrer
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) sabrer | sabrerul | (niște) sabreri | sabrerii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) sabrer | sabrerului | (unor) sabreri | sabrerilor |
| vocative | sabrerule | sabrerilor | ||