contaminer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin contāmināre. Compare entamer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.ta.mi.ne/
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Verb
contaminer
- to contaminate
Conjugation
Conjugation of contaminer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | contaminer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | contaminant /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | contaminé /kɔ̃.ta.mi.ne/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | contamine /kɔ̃.ta.min/ | contamines /kɔ̃.ta.min/ | contamine /kɔ̃.ta.min/ | contaminons /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɔ̃/ | contaminez /kɔ̃.ta.mi.ne/ | contaminent /kɔ̃.ta.min/ |
imperfect | contaminais /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɛ/ | contaminais /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɛ/ | contaminait /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɛ/ | contaminions /kɔ̃.ta.mi.njɔ̃/ | contaminiez /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nje/ | contaminaient /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɛ/ | |
past historic2 | contaminai /kɔ̃.ta.mi.ne/ | contaminas /kɔ̃.ta.mi.na/ | contamina /kɔ̃.ta.mi.na/ | contaminâmes /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nam/ | contaminâtes /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nat/ | contaminèrent /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɛʁ/ | |
future | contaminerai /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁe/ | contamineras /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁa/ | contaminera /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁa/ | contaminerons /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁɔ̃/ | contaminerez /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁe/ | contamineront /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | contaminerais /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁɛ/ | contaminerais /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁɛ/ | contaminerait /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁɛ/ | contaminerions /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ | contamineriez /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nə.ʁje/ | contamineraient /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁɛ/ | |
(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 | contamine /kɔ̃.ta.min/ | contamines /kɔ̃.ta.min/ | contamine /kɔ̃.ta.min/ | contaminions /kɔ̃.ta.mi.njɔ̃/ | contaminiez /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nje/ | contaminent /kɔ̃.ta.min/ |
imperfect2 | contaminasse /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nas/ | contaminasses /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nas/ | contaminât /kɔ̃.ta.mi.na/ | contaminassions /kɔ̃.ta.mi.na.sjɔ̃/ | contaminassiez /kɔ̃.ta.mi.na.sje/ | contaminassent /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | contamine /kɔ̃.ta.min/ | — | contaminons /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɔ̃/ | contaminez /kɔ̃.ta.mi.ne/ | — | |
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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived terms
- contamination
References
- “contaminer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
contāminer
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of contāminō