saquer

French

Etymology

From sac +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.ke/

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Verb

saquer

1. (transitive) to sack, fire (an employee)
2. (transitive, chiefly in the negative) to be able to stand someone
3. (transitive) to give low marks to a pupil

Conjugation

Conjugation of saquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	saquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	saquant /sa.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		saqué /sa.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	saque /sak/	saques /sak/	saque /sak/	saquons /sa.kɔ̃/	saquez /sa.ke/	saquent /sak/
	imperfect	saquais /sa.kɛ/	saquais /sa.kɛ/	saquait /sa.kɛ/	saquions /sa.kjɔ̃/	saquiez /sa.kje/	saquaient /sa.kɛ/
	past historic2	saquai /sa.ke/	saquas /sa.ka/	saqua /sa.ka/	saquâmes /sa.kam/	saquâtes /sa.kat/	saquèrent /sa.kɛʁ/
	future	saquerai /sa.kʁe/	saqueras /sa.kʁa/	saquera /sa.kʁa/	saquerons /sa.kʁɔ̃/	saquerez /sa.kʁe/	saqueront /sa.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	saquerais /sa.kʁɛ/	saquerais /sa.kʁɛ/	saquerait /sa.kʁɛ/	saquerions /sa.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	saqueriez /sa.kə.ʁje/	saqueraient /sa.kʁɛ/
(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	saque /sak/	saques /sak/	saque /sak/	saquions /sa.kjɔ̃/	saquiez /sa.kje/	saquent /sak/
	imperfect2	saquasse /sa.kas/	saquasses /sa.kas/	saquât /sa.ka/	saquassions /sa.ka.sjɔ̃/	saquassiez /sa.ka.sje/	saquassent /sa.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	saque /sak/	—	saquons /sa.kɔ̃/	saquez /sa.ke/	—
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

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