sucrer

Catalan

Etymology

From sucre +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [suˈkɾe]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [suˈkɾeɾ]

Adjective

sucrer (feminine sucrera, masculine plural sucrers, feminine plural sucreres)

1. (relational) sugar

   producció sucrera ― sugar production

Derived terms

• ingeni sucrer
• remolatxa sucrera

Noun

sucrer m (plural sucrers, feminine sucrera)

1. sugar manufacturer
2. confectioner

   Synonym: confiter

Derived terms

• sucreria

Further reading

• “sucrer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

sucre +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.kʁe/

• Audio:

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Verb

sucrer

1. to sugar (to add sugar to, to sweeten)
2. (colloquial) to steal, to take away from someone
   • 2014, Édouard Louis, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule, Le Seuil:

     […] Je te préviens que tu vas y filer à l’école, parce que, si t’y vas plus, on va me sucrer les allocations familiales, et ça je peux pas me le permettre.

     […] I'm telling you, you'll get yourself down to that school, because if you don't, they'll stop my child benefit, and I can't afford that.

Conjugation

Conjugation of sucrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	sucrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sucrant /sy.kʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sucré /sy.kʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sucre /sykʁ/	sucres /sykʁ/	sucre /sykʁ/	sucrons /sy.kʁɔ̃/	sucrez /sy.kʁe/	sucrent /sykʁ/
	imperfect	sucrais /sy.kʁɛ/	sucrais /sy.kʁɛ/	sucrait /sy.kʁɛ/	sucrions /sy.kʁi.jɔ̃/	sucriez /sy.kʁi.je/	sucraient /sy.kʁɛ/
	past historic2	sucrai /sy.kʁe/	sucras /sy.kʁa/	sucra /sy.kʁa/	sucrâmes /sy.kʁam/	sucrâtes /sy.kʁat/	sucrèrent /sy.kʁɛʁ/
	future	sucrerai /sy.kʁə.ʁe/	sucreras /sy.kʁə.ʁa/	sucrera /sy.kʁə.ʁa/	sucrerons /sy.kʁə.ʁɔ̃/	sucrerez /sy.kʁə.ʁe/	sucreront /sy.kʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	sucrerais /sy.kʁə.ʁɛ/	sucrerais /sy.kʁə.ʁɛ/	sucrerait /sy.kʁə.ʁɛ/	sucrerions /sy.kʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	sucreriez /sy.kʁə.ʁje/	sucreraient /sy.kʁə.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	sucre /sykʁ/	sucres /sykʁ/	sucre /sykʁ/	sucrions /sy.kʁi.jɔ̃/	sucriez /sy.kʁi.je/	sucrent /sykʁ/
	imperfect2	sucrasse /sy.kʁas/	sucrasses /sy.kʁas/	sucrât /sy.kʁa/	sucrassions /sy.kʁa.sjɔ̃/	sucrassiez /sy.kʁa.sje/	sucrassent /sy.kʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sucre /sykʁ/	—	sucrons /sy.kʁɔ̃/	sucrez /sy.kʁe/	—
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).

Derived terms

• sucrer les fraises

 

Further reading

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