rétracter
See also: retracter
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin retractāre, present active infinitive of retractō (“I undertake again; I withdraw, refuse, decline; I retract”), from Latin retractus (“withdrawn”), perfect passive participle of retrahō (“I draw or pull back, withdraw; I call back, remove”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁe.tʁak.te/
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Verb
rétracter
- (transitive) to retract, contract
Conjugation
Conjugation of rétracter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rétracter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rétractant /ʁe.tʁak.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rétracté /ʁe.tʁak.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | rétracte /ʁe.tʁakt/ | rétractes /ʁe.tʁakt/ | rétracte /ʁe.tʁakt/ | rétractons /ʁe.tʁak.tɔ̃/ | rétractez /ʁe.tʁak.te/ | rétractent /ʁe.tʁakt/ |
| imperfect | rétractais /ʁe.tʁak.tɛ/ | rétractais /ʁe.tʁak.tɛ/ | rétractait /ʁe.tʁak.tɛ/ | rétractions /ʁe.tʁak.tjɔ̃/ | rétractiez /ʁe.tʁak.tje/ | rétractaient /ʁe.tʁak.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rétractai /ʁe.tʁak.te/ | rétractas /ʁe.tʁak.ta/ | rétracta /ʁe.tʁak.ta/ | rétractâmes /ʁe.tʁak.tam/ | rétractâtes /ʁe.tʁak.tat/ | rétractèrent /ʁe.tʁak.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | rétracterai /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁe/ | rétracteras /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁa/ | rétractera /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁa/ | rétracterons /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | rétracterez /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁe/ | rétracteront /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rétracterais /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁɛ/ | rétracterais /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁɛ/ | rétracterait /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁɛ/ | rétracterions /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | rétracteriez /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁje/ | rétracteraient /ʁe.tʁak.tə.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 | rétracte /ʁe.tʁakt/ | rétractes /ʁe.tʁakt/ | rétracte /ʁe.tʁakt/ | rétractions /ʁe.tʁak.tjɔ̃/ | rétractiez /ʁe.tʁak.tje/ | rétractent /ʁe.tʁakt/ |
| imperfect2 | rétractasse /ʁe.tʁak.tas/ | rétractasses /ʁe.tʁak.tas/ | rétractât /ʁe.tʁak.ta/ | rétractassions /ʁe.tʁak.ta.sjɔ̃/ | rétractassiez /ʁe.tʁak.ta.sje/ | rétractassent /ʁe.tʁak.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rétracte /ʁe.tʁakt/ | — | rétractons /ʁe.tʁak.tɔ̃/ | rétractez /ʁe.tʁak.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). | |||||||
Related terms
- rétraction
- retraire
Further reading
- “rétracter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.