-asses
French, suffix/as/
-asses is spelled A-S-S-E-S (5 letters) and appears about once in every 27 million words in written French, the 166,446th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). -asses is a French suffix meaning “forms the second-person singular imperfect subjunctive of -er verbs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Suffixe qui forme l’imparfait du subjonctif de la 2ᵉ personne du singulier des verbes du 1ᵉʳ groupe”.
What does -asses mean in English?
suffix
- 1
forms the second-person singular imperfect subjunctive of -er verbs
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
suffix: 1. Suffixe qui forme l’imparfait du subjonctif de la 2ᵉ personne du singulier des verbes du 1ᵉʳ groupe.
adverb: 1. Ancienne orthographe de assez.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce -asses?
- /as/
- \a.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is -asses in French?
-asses appears about once in every 27 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).