pâtisser

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French pasticier (“make pâté, make pastry”), from an unattested noun *pastitz (compare Old Occitan pastis, pastitz, Italian pasticcio), from a Vulgar Latin *pastīcius,^[1] from Late Latin pasta (“paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “salted”), from πάσσω (pássō, “sprinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kuh₁tyé- (whence Latin quatiō), from *(s)kweh₁t- (“shake, jostle”).^[2] Morphological doublet of pasticher.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.ti.se/ ~ /pɑ.ti.se/

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Verb

pâtisser

1. (intransitive) to make pastry
2. (transitive, of cakes and pastry) to bake something

Conjugation

infinitive	simple	pâtisser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pâtissant /pa.ti.sɑ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pâtissé /pa.ti.se/ or /pɑ.ti.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pâtisse /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/	pâtisses /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/	pâtisse /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/	pâtissons /pa.ti.sɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sɔ̃/	pâtissez /pa.ti.se/ or /pɑ.ti.se/	pâtissent /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/
	imperfect	pâtissais /pa.ti.sɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.sɛ/	pâtissais /pa.ti.sɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.sɛ/	pâtissait /pa.ti.sɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.sɛ/	pâtissions /pa.ti.sjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sjɔ̃/	pâtissiez /pa.ti.sje/ or /pɑ.ti.sje/	pâtissaient /pa.ti.sɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.sɛ/
	past historic2	pâtissai /pa.ti.se/ or /pɑ.ti.se/	pâtissas /pa.ti.sa/ or /pɑ.ti.sa/	pâtissa /pa.ti.sa/ or /pɑ.ti.sa/	pâtissâmes /pa.ti.sam/ or /pɑ.ti.sam/	pâtissâtes /pa.ti.sat/ or /pɑ.ti.sat/	pâtissèrent /pa.ti.sɛʁ/ or /pɑ.ti.sɛʁ/
	future	pâtisserai /pa.ti.sʁe/ or /pɑ.ti.sʁe/	pâtisseras /pa.ti.sʁa/ or /pɑ.ti.sʁa/	pâtissera /pa.ti.sʁa/ or /pɑ.ti.sʁa/	pâtisserons /pa.ti.sʁɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sʁɔ̃/	pâtisserez /pa.ti.sʁe/ or /pɑ.ti.sʁe/	pâtisseront /pa.ti.sʁɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pâtisserais /pa.ti.sʁɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.sʁɛ/	pâtisserais /pa.ti.sʁɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.sʁɛ/	pâtisserait /pa.ti.sʁɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.sʁɛ/	pâtisserions /pa.ti.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	pâtisseriez /pa.ti.sə.ʁje/ or /pɑ.ti.sə.ʁje/	pâtisseraient /pa.ti.sʁɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.sʁɛ/
(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	pâtisse /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/	pâtisses /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/	pâtisse /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/	pâtissions /pa.ti.sjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sjɔ̃/	pâtissiez /pa.ti.sje/ or /pɑ.ti.sje/	pâtissent /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/
	imperfect2	pâtissasse /pa.ti.sas/ or /pɑ.ti.sas/	pâtissasses /pa.ti.sas/ or /pɑ.ti.sas/	pâtissât /pa.ti.sa/ or /pɑ.ti.sa/	pâtissassions /pa.ti.sa.sjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sa.sjɔ̃/	pâtissassiez /pa.ti.sa.sje/ or /pɑ.ti.sa.sje/	pâtissassent /pa.ti.sas/ or /pɑ.ti.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pâtisse /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/	—	pâtissons /pa.ti.sɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sɔ̃/	pâtissez /pa.ti.se/ or /pɑ.ti.se/	—
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).

Conjugation of pâtisser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

Derived terms

• pâtisserie
• pâtissier

Related terms

• pâte
• pastis
• pastiche

References

1. “pâtisser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
2. Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 563-564