offenser

French

Etymology

From offense +‎ -er, from Latin offēnsāre (“to strike against”), replacing previous Middle French offendre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.fɑ̃.se/

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Verb

offenser

1. to offend (to insult, to cause offence)
2. to hurt (physically damage)

Conjugation

Conjugation of offenser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	offenser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	offensant /ɔ.fɑ̃.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		offensé /ɔ.fɑ̃.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	offense /ɔ.fɑ̃s/	offenses /ɔ.fɑ̃s/	offense /ɔ.fɑ̃s/	offensons /ɔ.fɑ̃.sɔ̃/	offensez /ɔ.fɑ̃.se/	offensent /ɔ.fɑ̃s/
	imperfect	offensais /ɔ.fɑ̃.sɛ/	offensais /ɔ.fɑ̃.sɛ/	offensait /ɔ.fɑ̃.sɛ/	offensions /ɔ.fɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	offensiez /ɔ.fɑ̃.sje/	offensaient /ɔ.fɑ̃.sɛ/
	past historic2	offensai /ɔ.fɑ̃.se/	offensas /ɔ.fɑ̃.sa/	offensa /ɔ.fɑ̃.sa/	offensâmes /ɔ.fɑ̃.sam/	offensâtes /ɔ.fɑ̃.sat/	offensèrent /ɔ.fɑ̃.sɛʁ/
	future	offenserai /ɔ.fɑ̃.sʁe/	offenseras /ɔ.fɑ̃.sʁa/	offensera /ɔ.fɑ̃.sʁa/	offenserons /ɔ.fɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/	offenserez /ɔ.fɑ̃.sʁe/	offenseront /ɔ.fɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	offenserais /ɔ.fɑ̃.sʁɛ/	offenserais /ɔ.fɑ̃.sʁɛ/	offenserait /ɔ.fɑ̃.sʁɛ/	offenserions /ɔ.fɑ̃.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	offenseriez /ɔ.fɑ̃.sə.ʁje/	offenseraient /ɔ.fɑ̃.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	offense /ɔ.fɑ̃s/	offenses /ɔ.fɑ̃s/	offense /ɔ.fɑ̃s/	offensions /ɔ.fɑ̃.sjɔ̃/	offensiez /ɔ.fɑ̃.sje/	offensent /ɔ.fɑ̃s/
	imperfect2	offensasse /ɔ.fɑ̃.sas/	offensasses /ɔ.fɑ̃.sas/	offensât /ɔ.fɑ̃.sa/	offensassions /ɔ.fɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃/	offensassiez /ɔ.fɑ̃.sa.sje/	offensassent /ɔ.fɑ̃.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	offense /ɔ.fɑ̃s/	—	offensons /ɔ.fɑ̃.sɔ̃/	offensez /ɔ.fɑ̃.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

• offensif

Descendants

• → Romanian: ofensa

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

offēnser

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of offēnsō