contrebattre

French

Pronunciation
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Verb

contrebattre

  1. to counter (especially to fire on enemy artillery positions)
  2. 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 – tu – nous vous –
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:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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