contrebattre
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
contrebattre
- to counter (especially to fire on enemy artillery positions)
- to get back at, hit back
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like battre. That means it is conjugated like vendre, perdre, etc. (sometimes called the regular -re verbs), except that instead of *contrebatt and *contrebatts, it has the forms contrebat and contrebats. This is strictly a spelling change; pronunciation-wise, the verb is conjugated exactly like vendre.
Conjugation of contrebattre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | contrebattre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | contrebattant /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | contrebattu /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.ty/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | contrebats /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba/ | contrebats /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba/ | contrebat /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba/ | contrebattons /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tɔ̃/ | contrebattez /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.te/ | contrebattent /kɔ̃.tʁə.bat/ |
| imperfect | contrebattais /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tɛ/ | contrebattais /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tɛ/ | contrebattait /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tɛ/ | contrebattions /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tjɔ̃/ | contrebattiez /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tje/ | contrebattaient /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | contrebattis /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.ti/ | contrebattis /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.ti/ | contrebattit /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.ti/ | contrebattîmes /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tim/ | contrebattîtes /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tit/ | contrebattirent /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tiʁ/ | |
| future | contrebattrai /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tʁe/ | contrebattras /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tʁa/ | contrebattra /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tʁa/ | contrebattrons /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tʁɔ̃/ | contrebattrez /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tʁe/ | contrebattront /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | contrebattrais /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tʁɛ/ | contrebattrais /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tʁɛ/ | contrebattrait /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tʁɛ/ | contrebattrions /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tʁi.jɔ̃/ | contrebattriez /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tʁi.je/ | contrebattraient /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | contrebatte /kɔ̃.tʁə.bat/ | contrebattes /kɔ̃.tʁə.bat/ | contrebatte /kɔ̃.tʁə.bat/ | contrebattions /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tjɔ̃/ | contrebattiez /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tje/ | contrebattent /kɔ̃.tʁə.bat/ |
| imperfect2 | contrebattisse /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tis/ | contrebattisses /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tis/ | contrebattît /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.ti/ | contrebattissions /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.ti.sjɔ̃/ | contrebattissiez /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.ti.sje/ | contrebattissent /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | contrebats /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba/ | — | contrebattons /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.tɔ̃/ | contrebattez /kɔ̃.tʁə.ba.te/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “contrebattre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.