remâter
French
Etymology
From re- + mâter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.ma.te/, /ʁə.mɑ.te/
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Verb
remâter
- (transitive, nautical) to remast
- 1793, W. Hunter, C. Wolf and A. Eschelskroon, Description du Pégu et de l'isle de Ceylan, page 31:
- Le vaisseau que je montois ayant été totalement désemparé, il fallut entrer dans la rivière de Syriam pour le remâter.
- The ship that I boarded having been totally disabled, it was necessary to enter the Syriam river to remast it.
- 1929, Marcel Prévost, Joseph Bédier and Raymond Recouly, La Revue de France, page 376:
- Il remâtera ses vaisseaux avec les mâtures des frégates, ses frégates avec les mâtures des transports, et ceux-ci, à leur tour, avec des agrès de fortune.
- He will remast his ships with the masts of the frigates, his frigates with the masts of the transporters, and these, in turn, with makeshift gear.
- 2006, Robert Solé, Le grand voyage de l'obélisque, →ISBN, page 120:
- En trente-six heures, le navire est remâté, regréé et déchargé de tout poids inutile.
- In thirty-six hours, the ship is remasted, rerigged and unloaded of any unnecessary weight.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of remâter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | remâter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | remâtant /ʁə.ma.tɑ̃/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | remâté /ʁə.ma.te/ or /ʁə.mɑ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | remâte /ʁə.mat/ or /ʁə.mɑt/ | remâtes /ʁə.mat/ or /ʁə.mɑt/ | remâte /ʁə.mat/ or /ʁə.mɑt/ | remâtons /ʁə.ma.tɔ̃/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tɔ̃/ | remâtez /ʁə.ma.te/ or /ʁə.mɑ.te/ | remâtent /ʁə.mat/ or /ʁə.mɑt/ |
| imperfect | remâtais /ʁə.ma.tɛ/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tɛ/ | remâtais /ʁə.ma.tɛ/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tɛ/ | remâtait /ʁə.ma.tɛ/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tɛ/ | remâtions /ʁə.ma.tjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tjɔ̃/ | remâtiez /ʁə.ma.tje/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tje/ | remâtaient /ʁə.ma.tɛ/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | remâtai /ʁə.ma.te/ or /ʁə.mɑ.te/ | remâtas /ʁə.ma.ta/ or /ʁə.mɑ.ta/ | remâta /ʁə.ma.ta/ or /ʁə.mɑ.ta/ | remâtâmes /ʁə.ma.tam/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tam/ | remâtâtes /ʁə.ma.tat/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tat/ | remâtèrent /ʁə.ma.tɛʁ/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | remâterai /ʁə.ma.tʁe/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tʁe/ | remâteras /ʁə.ma.tʁa/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tʁa/ | remâtera /ʁə.ma.tʁa/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tʁa/ | remâterons /ʁə.ma.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tʁɔ̃/ | remâterez /ʁə.ma.tʁe/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tʁe/ | remâteront /ʁə.ma.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | remâterais /ʁə.ma.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tʁɛ/ | remâterais /ʁə.ma.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tʁɛ/ | remâterait /ʁə.ma.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tʁɛ/ | remâterions /ʁə.ma.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | remâteriez /ʁə.ma.tə.ʁje/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tə.ʁje/ | remâteraient /ʁə.ma.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.mɑ.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 | remâte /ʁə.mat/ or /ʁə.mɑt/ | remâtes /ʁə.mat/ or /ʁə.mɑt/ | remâte /ʁə.mat/ or /ʁə.mɑt/ | remâtions /ʁə.ma.tjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tjɔ̃/ | remâtiez /ʁə.ma.tje/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tje/ | remâtent /ʁə.mat/ or /ʁə.mɑt/ |
| imperfect2 | remâtasse /ʁə.ma.tas/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tas/ | remâtasses /ʁə.ma.tas/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tas/ | remâtât /ʁə.ma.ta/ or /ʁə.mɑ.ta/ | remâtassions /ʁə.ma.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.mɑ.ta.sjɔ̃/ | remâtassiez /ʁə.ma.ta.sje/ or /ʁə.mɑ.ta.sje/ | remâtassent /ʁə.ma.tas/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | remâte /ʁə.mat/ or /ʁə.mɑt/ | — | remâtons /ʁə.ma.tɔ̃/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tɔ̃/ | remâtez /ʁə.ma.te/ or /ʁə.mɑ.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- remâtage
- remâtement
Further reading
- “remâter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.