massacrer
French, verb/ma.sa.kʁe/
massacrer is a French verb meaning “to massacre (to kill)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tuer, égorger des personnes qui ne se défendent pas”.
What does massacrer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to massacre (to kill)
- 2
to botch (to do something badly)
Il a massacré cette chanson.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Tuer, égorger des personnes qui ne se défendent pas. 2. Donner un grand nombre de blessures. 3. Tuer de nombreux animaux à la chasse. 4. Gâter, mettre en mauvais état, défigurer.
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 massacrer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- massacrant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- massacré participle past
- massacre first-person indicative present
- massacres indicative present second-person
- massacrons first-person indicative plural
- massacrez indicative plural present
- massacrent indicative plural present
- massacrais first-person imperfect indicative
- massacrait imperfect indicative singular
- massacrions first-person imperfect indicative
- massacriez imperfect indicative plural
- massacraient imperfect indicative plural
- massacrai first-person historic indicative
- massacras historic indicative past
- massacra historic indicative past
- massacrâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce massacrer?
- /ma.sa.kʁe/
- \ma.sa.kʁe\
- [ma.sa.kʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to massacrer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is massacrer in French?
massacrer appears 3.0 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).