blaser

See also: Blaser and blåser

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Dutch blâsen (“to blow, sound, brag”), from Old Dutch *blāsan, from Proto-West Germanic *blāsan (“to blow”). Cognate with German blasen (“to blow”), Dutch blazen, English blast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bla.ze/, /blɑ.ze/

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Verb

blaser

1. to blunt, dull

   L’usage des liqueurs fortes lui a blasé le goût.

   The use of strong alcohol has dulled his sense of taste.

Conjugation

Conjugation of blaser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	blaser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	blasant /bla.zɑ̃/ or /blɑ.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		blasé /bla.ze/ or /blɑ.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	blase /blaz/ or /blɑz/	blases /blaz/ or /blɑz/	blase /blaz/ or /blɑz/	blasons /bla.zɔ̃/ or /blɑ.zɔ̃/	blasez /bla.ze/ or /blɑ.ze/	blasent /blaz/ or /blɑz/
	imperfect	blasais /bla.zɛ/ or /blɑ.zɛ/	blasais /bla.zɛ/ or /blɑ.zɛ/	blasait /bla.zɛ/ or /blɑ.zɛ/	blasions /bla.zjɔ̃/ or /blɑ.zjɔ̃/	blasiez /bla.zje/ or /blɑ.zje/	blasaient /bla.zɛ/ or /blɑ.zɛ/
	past historic2	blasai /bla.ze/ or /blɑ.ze/	blasas /bla.za/ or /blɑ.za/	blasa /bla.za/ or /blɑ.za/	blasâmes /bla.zam/ or /blɑ.zam/	blasâtes /bla.zat/ or /blɑ.zat/	blasèrent /bla.zɛʁ/ or /blɑ.zɛʁ/
	future	blaserai /blaz.ʁe/ or /blɑz.ʁe/	blaseras /blaz.ʁa/ or /blɑz.ʁa/	blasera /blaz.ʁa/ or /blɑz.ʁa/	blaserons /blaz.ʁɔ̃/ or /blɑz.ʁɔ̃/	blaserez /blaz.ʁe/ or /blɑz.ʁe/	blaseront /blaz.ʁɔ̃/ or /blɑz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	blaserais /blaz.ʁɛ/ or /blɑz.ʁɛ/	blaserais /blaz.ʁɛ/ or /blɑz.ʁɛ/	blaserait /blaz.ʁɛ/ or /blɑz.ʁɛ/	blaserions /bla.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /blɑ.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	blaseriez /bla.zə.ʁje/ or /blɑ.zə.ʁje/	blaseraient /blaz.ʁɛ/ or /blɑz.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	blase /blaz/ or /blɑz/	blases /blaz/ or /blɑz/	blase /blaz/ or /blɑz/	blasions /bla.zjɔ̃/ or /blɑ.zjɔ̃/	blasiez /bla.zje/ or /blɑ.zje/	blasent /blaz/ or /blɑz/
	imperfect2	blasasse /bla.zas/ or /blɑ.zas/	blasasses /bla.zas/ or /blɑ.zas/	blasât /bla.za/ or /blɑ.za/	blasassions /bla.za.sjɔ̃/ or /blɑ.za.sjɔ̃/	blasassiez /bla.za.sje/ or /blɑ.za.sje/	blasassent /bla.zas/ or /blɑ.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	blase /blaz/ or /blɑz/	—	blasons /bla.zɔ̃/ or /blɑ.zɔ̃/	blasez /bla.ze/ or /blɑ.ze/	—
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

• blasé

References

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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• sabler