violacer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vjɔ.la.se/

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Verb

violacer

1. to turn purple, to purple

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

Conjugation of violacer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	violacer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	violaçant /vjɔ.la.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		violacé /vjɔ.la.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	violace /vjɔ.las/	violaces /vjɔ.las/	violace /vjɔ.las/	violaçons /vjɔ.la.sɔ̃/	violacez /vjɔ.la.se/	violacent /vjɔ.las/
	imperfect	violaçais /vjɔ.la.sɛ/	violaçais /vjɔ.la.sɛ/	violaçait /vjɔ.la.sɛ/	violacions /vjɔ.la.sjɔ̃/	violaciez /vjɔ.la.sje/	violaçaient /vjɔ.la.sɛ/
	past historic2	violaçai /vjɔ.la.se/	violaças /vjɔ.la.sa/	violaça /vjɔ.la.sa/	violaçâmes /vjɔ.la.sam/	violaçâtes /vjɔ.la.sat/	violacèrent /vjɔ.la.sɛʁ/
	future	violacerai /vjɔ.la.sʁe/	violaceras /vjɔ.la.sʁa/	violacera /vjɔ.la.sʁa/	violacerons /vjɔ.la.sʁɔ̃/	violacerez /vjɔ.la.sʁe/	violaceront /vjɔ.la.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	violacerais /vjɔ.la.sʁɛ/	violacerais /vjɔ.la.sʁɛ/	violacerait /vjɔ.la.sʁɛ/	violacerions /vjɔ.la.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	violaceriez /vjɔ.la.sə.ʁje/	violaceraient /vjɔ.la.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	violace /vjɔ.las/	violaces /vjɔ.las/	violace /vjɔ.las/	violacions /vjɔ.la.sjɔ̃/	violaciez /vjɔ.la.sje/	violacent /vjɔ.las/
	imperfect2	violaçasse /vjɔ.la.sas/	violaçasses /vjɔ.la.sas/	violaçât /vjɔ.la.sa/	violaçassions /vjɔ.la.sa.sjɔ̃/	violaçassiez /vjɔ.la.sa.sje/	violaçassent /vjɔ.la.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	violace /vjɔ.las/	—	violaçons /vjɔ.la.sɔ̃/	violacez /vjɔ.la.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).

Related terms

• violacé
• violet

Further reading

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