consacrer

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French consecrer, cunsecrer, borrowed from Latin cōnsecrāre, and altered under the influence of sacrer.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kɔ̃.sa.kʁe/
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Verb

consacrer

  1. to dedicate, to devote (time, effort)
  2. to consecrate
  3. to standardize through long usage
    Ce terme est récent; il n’y a pas encore de traduction consacrée.
    This term is recent; there's no standard/clearly most commonly used translation for it yet.

Conjugation
Conjugation of consacrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple consacrer
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple consacrant
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle consacré
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present consacre
/kɔ̃.sakʁ/		 consacres
/kɔ̃.sakʁ/		 consacre
/kɔ̃.sakʁ/		 consacrons
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁɔ̃/		 consacrez
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁe/		 consacrent
/kɔ̃.sakʁ/
imperfect consacrais
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁɛ/		 consacrais
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁɛ/		 consacrait
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁɛ/		 consacrions
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁi.jɔ̃/		 consacriez
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁi.je/		 consacraient
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁɛ/
past historic2 consacrai
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁe/		 consacras
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁa/		 consacra
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁa/		 consacrâmes
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁam/		 consacrâtes
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁat/		 consacrèrent
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁɛʁ/
future consacrerai
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁə.ʁe/		 consacreras
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁə.ʁa/		 consacrera
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁə.ʁa/		 consacrerons
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁə.ʁɔ̃/		 consacrerez
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁə.ʁe/		 consacreront
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional consacrerais
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁə.ʁɛ/		 consacrerais
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁə.ʁɛ/		 consacrerait
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁə.ʁɛ/		 consacrerions
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁə.ʁjɔ̃/		 consacreriez
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁə.ʁje/		 consacreraient
/kɔ̃.sa.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 consacre
/kɔ̃.sakʁ/		 consacres
/kɔ̃.sakʁ/		 consacre
/kɔ̃.sakʁ/		 consacrions
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁi.jɔ̃/		 consacriez
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁi.je/		 consacrent
/kɔ̃.sakʁ/
imperfect2 consacrasse
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁas/		 consacrasses
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁas/		 consacrât
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁa/		 consacrassions
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁa.sjɔ̃/		 consacrassiez
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁa.sje/		 consacrassent
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — consacre
/kɔ̃.sakʁ/		 — consacrons
/kɔ̃.sa.kʁɔ̃/		 consacrez
/kɔ̃.sa.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).

Descendants
  • → Romanian: consacra

Further reading

Latin

Verb

cōnsacrer

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of cōnsacrō
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