tracasser
French
Etymology
From traque or trac + -asser.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁa.ka.se/
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Verb
tracasser
- (transitive, colloquial) to bother, to annoy, to worry
- Synonym: inquiéter
- Qu'est ce qui te tracasse tant ? ― What's bothering you so much?
- Sa santé me tracasse. ― His/her health worries me.
- 2015 January, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume II, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN:
- Au fond, ce qui le tracasse, c’est que le jour de la mort de Loïc, la Hyène est passée les voir, un par un, et leur a expliqué qu’Anaïs et Céleste y étaient allées un peu fort, à visage découvert, elles allaient se mettre au vert, et que les autres devaient arrêter toutes leurs actions et moins aller au parc, autant que possible.
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- (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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(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.