ébattre
French
Etymology
From Old French esbatre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.batʁ/
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Verb
ébattre
- (reflexive) to frolic
- (transitive, rare) to frolic away
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 *ébatt and *ébatts, it has the forms ébat and ébats. This is strictly a spelling change; pronunciation-wise, the verb is conjugated exactly like vendre.
Conjugation of ébattre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | ébattre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | ébattant /e.ba.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | ébattu /e.ba.ty/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | ébats /e.ba/ | ébats /e.ba/ | ébat /e.ba/ | ébattons /e.ba.tɔ̃/ | ébattez /e.ba.te/ | ébattent /e.bat/ |
| imperfect | ébattais /e.ba.tɛ/ | ébattais /e.ba.tɛ/ | ébattait /e.ba.tɛ/ | ébattions /e.ba.tjɔ̃/ | ébattiez /e.ba.tje/ | ébattaient /e.ba.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | ébattis /e.ba.ti/ | ébattis /e.ba.ti/ | ébattit /e.ba.ti/ | ébattîmes /e.ba.tim/ | ébattîtes /e.ba.tit/ | ébattirent /e.ba.tiʁ/ | |
| future | ébattrai /e.ba.tʁe/ | ébattras /e.ba.tʁa/ | ébattra /e.ba.tʁa/ | ébattrons /e.ba.tʁɔ̃/ | ébattrez /e.ba.tʁe/ | ébattront /e.ba.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | ébattrais /e.ba.tʁɛ/ | ébattrais /e.ba.tʁɛ/ | ébattrait /e.ba.tʁɛ/ | ébattrions /e.ba.tʁi.jɔ̃/ | ébattriez /e.ba.tʁi.je/ | ébattraient /e.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 | ébatte /e.bat/ | ébattes /e.bat/ | ébatte /e.bat/ | ébattions /e.ba.tjɔ̃/ | ébattiez /e.ba.tje/ | ébattent /e.bat/ |
| imperfect2 | ébattisse /e.ba.tis/ | ébattisses /e.ba.tis/ | ébattît /e.ba.ti/ | ébattissions /e.ba.ti.sjɔ̃/ | ébattissiez /e.ba.ti.sje/ | ébattissent /e.ba.tis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | ébats /e.ba/ | — | ébattons /e.ba.tɔ̃/ | ébattez /e.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
- “ébattre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.