pacser
French, verb/pak.se/
pacser is spelled P-A-C-S-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written French, the 152,479th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pacser is a French verb meaning “to enter into a civil partnership” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Unir deux personnes, ou en parlant de ces deux personnes s'unir, par un PACS”.
What does pacser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to enter into a civil partnership
ma sœur s'est pacsée avec sa petite amie
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Unir deux personnes, ou en parlant de ces deux personnes s'unir, par un PACS. 2. Enregistrer un partenariat entre deux personnes, ou en parlant de ces deux personnes s’enregistrer en partenariat.
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.
Forms of pacser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pacsant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pacsé participle past
- pacse first-person indicative present
- pacses indicative present second-person
- pacsons first-person indicative plural
- pacsez indicative plural present
- pacsent indicative plural present
- pacsais first-person imperfect indicative
- pacsait imperfect indicative singular
- pacsions first-person imperfect indicative
- pacsiez imperfect indicative plural
- pacsaient imperfect indicative plural
- pacsai first-person historic indicative
- pacsas historic indicative past
- pacsa historic indicative past
- pacsâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pacser?
- /pak.se/
- \pa.kse\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pacser in French?
pacser appears about once in every 22 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).