percuter

French

Etymology

From Latin percutere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.ky.te/

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Verb

percuter

1. (transitive) to hit; to crash into

Conjugation

Conjugation of percuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	percuter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	percutant /pɛʁ.ky.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		percuté /pɛʁ.ky.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	percute /pɛʁ.kyt/	percutes /pɛʁ.kyt/	percute /pɛʁ.kyt/	percutons /pɛʁ.ky.tɔ̃/	percutez /pɛʁ.ky.te/	percutent /pɛʁ.kyt/
	imperfect	percutais /pɛʁ.ky.tɛ/	percutais /pɛʁ.ky.tɛ/	percutait /pɛʁ.ky.tɛ/	percutions /pɛʁ.ky.tjɔ̃/	percutiez /pɛʁ.ky.tje/	percutaient /pɛʁ.ky.tɛ/
	past historic2	percutai /pɛʁ.ky.te/	percutas /pɛʁ.ky.ta/	percuta /pɛʁ.ky.ta/	percutâmes /pɛʁ.ky.tam/	percutâtes /pɛʁ.ky.tat/	percutèrent /pɛʁ.ky.tɛʁ/
	future	percuterai /pɛʁ.ky.tʁe/	percuteras /pɛʁ.ky.tʁa/	percutera /pɛʁ.ky.tʁa/	percuterons /pɛʁ.ky.tʁɔ̃/	percuterez /pɛʁ.ky.tʁe/	percuteront /pɛʁ.ky.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	percuterais /pɛʁ.ky.tʁɛ/	percuterais /pɛʁ.ky.tʁɛ/	percuterait /pɛʁ.ky.tʁɛ/	percuterions /pɛʁ.ky.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	percuteriez /pɛʁ.ky.tə.ʁje/	percuteraient /pɛʁ.ky.tʁɛ/
(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	percute /pɛʁ.kyt/	percutes /pɛʁ.kyt/	percute /pɛʁ.kyt/	percutions /pɛʁ.ky.tjɔ̃/	percutiez /pɛʁ.ky.tje/	percutent /pɛʁ.kyt/
	imperfect2	percutasse /pɛʁ.ky.tas/	percutasses /pɛʁ.ky.tas/	percutât /pɛʁ.ky.ta/	percutassions /pɛʁ.ky.ta.sjɔ̃/	percutassiez /pɛʁ.ky.ta.sje/	percutassent /pɛʁ.ky.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	percute /pɛʁ.kyt/	—	percutons /pɛʁ.ky.tɔ̃/	percutez /pɛʁ.ky.te/	—
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).

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• reperçut, reperçût