tracasser

French

Etymology

From traque or trac +‎ -asser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁa.ka.se/

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Verb

tracasser

1. (transitive) to bother, to annoy, to worry,

   Synonym: effrayant

   Qu’est ce qui te tracasse tant ? ― What's bothering you so much?

   Sa santé me tracasse. ― His/her health worries me.

2. (intransitive, dated) to fret, to fuss

   Il ne peut se tenir en repos, il tracasse sans cesse. ― He can't relax, he's always fussing.

Conjugation

Conjugation of tracasser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tracasser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tracassant /tʁa.ka.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tracassé /tʁa.ka.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tracasse /tʁa.kas/	tracasses /tʁa.kas/	tracasse /tʁa.kas/	tracassons /tʁa.ka.sɔ̃/	tracassez /tʁa.ka.se/	tracassent /tʁa.kas/
	imperfect	tracassais /tʁa.ka.sɛ/	tracassais /tʁa.ka.sɛ/	tracassait /tʁa.ka.sɛ/	tracassions /tʁa.ka.sjɔ̃/	tracassiez /tʁa.ka.sje/	tracassaient /tʁa.ka.sɛ/
	past historic2	tracassai /tʁa.ka.se/	tracassas /tʁa.ka.sa/	tracassa /tʁa.ka.sa/	tracassâmes /tʁa.ka.sam/	tracassâtes /tʁa.ka.sat/	tracassèrent /tʁa.ka.sɛʁ/
	future	tracasserai /tʁa.ka.sʁe/	tracasseras /tʁa.ka.sʁa/	tracassera /tʁa.ka.sʁa/	tracasserons /tʁa.ka.sʁɔ̃/	tracasserez /tʁa.ka.sʁe/	tracasseront /tʁa.ka.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tracasserais /tʁa.ka.sʁɛ/	tracasserais /tʁa.ka.sʁɛ/	tracasserait /tʁa.ka.sʁɛ/	tracasserions /tʁa.ka.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	tracasseriez /tʁa.ka.sə.ʁje/	tracasseraient /tʁa.ka.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	tracasse /tʁa.kas/	tracasses /tʁa.kas/	tracasse /tʁa.kas/	tracassions /tʁa.ka.sjɔ̃/	tracassiez /tʁa.ka.sje/	tracassent /tʁa.kas/
	imperfect2	tracassasse /tʁa.ka.sas/	tracassasses /tʁa.ka.sas/	tracassât /tʁa.ka.sa/	tracassassions /tʁa.ka.sa.sjɔ̃/	tracassassiez /tʁa.ka.sa.sje/	tracassassent /tʁa.ka.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tracasse /tʁa.kas/	—	tracassons /tʁa.ka.sɔ̃/	tracassez /tʁa.ka.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).

Derived terms

• tracas
• tracassement
• tracasserie

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• castreras