ancrer

French

Etymology

From ancre +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.kʁe/

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• Homophone: encrer

Verb

ancrer

1. (nautical) to anchor
2. to fix, to anchor, to make permanent

Conjugation

Conjugation of ancrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ancrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ancrant /ɑ̃.kʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ancré /ɑ̃.kʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ancre /ɑ̃kʁ/	ancres /ɑ̃kʁ/	ancre /ɑ̃kʁ/	ancrons /ɑ̃.kʁɔ̃/	ancrez /ɑ̃.kʁe/	ancrent /ɑ̃kʁ/
	imperfect	ancrais /ɑ̃.kʁɛ/	ancrais /ɑ̃.kʁɛ/	ancrait /ɑ̃.kʁɛ/	ancrions /ɑ̃.kʁi.jɔ̃/	ancriez /ɑ̃.kʁi.je/	ancraient /ɑ̃.kʁɛ/
	past historic2	ancrai /ɑ̃.kʁe/	ancras /ɑ̃.kʁa/	ancra /ɑ̃.kʁa/	ancrâmes /ɑ̃.kʁam/	ancrâtes /ɑ̃.kʁat/	ancrèrent /ɑ̃.kʁɛʁ/
	future	ancrerai /ɑ̃.kʁə.ʁe/	ancreras /ɑ̃.kʁə.ʁa/	ancrera /ɑ̃.kʁə.ʁa/	ancrerons /ɑ̃.kʁə.ʁɔ̃/	ancrerez /ɑ̃.kʁə.ʁe/	ancreront /ɑ̃.kʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ancrerais /ɑ̃.kʁə.ʁɛ/	ancrerais /ɑ̃.kʁə.ʁɛ/	ancrerait /ɑ̃.kʁə.ʁɛ/	ancrerions /ɑ̃.kʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	ancreriez /ɑ̃.kʁə.ʁje/	ancreraient /ɑ̃.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	ancre /ɑ̃kʁ/	ancres /ɑ̃kʁ/	ancre /ɑ̃kʁ/	ancrions /ɑ̃.kʁi.jɔ̃/	ancriez /ɑ̃.kʁi.je/	ancrent /ɑ̃kʁ/
	imperfect2	ancrasse /ɑ̃.kʁas/	ancrasses /ɑ̃.kʁas/	ancrât /ɑ̃.kʁa/	ancrassions /ɑ̃.kʁa.sjɔ̃/	ancrassiez /ɑ̃.kʁa.sje/	ancrassent /ɑ̃.kʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ancre /ɑ̃kʁ/	—	ancrons /ɑ̃.kʁɔ̃/	ancrez /ɑ̃.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).

Related terms

• ancrage

Further reading

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

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Verb

ancrer

1. (Jersey, nautical) to anchor