batailler
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.ta.je/ ~ /ba.tɑ.je/
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Verb
batailler
- to battle
Conjugation
Conjugation of batailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | batailler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | bataillant /ba.ta.jɑ̃/ or /ba.tɑ.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | bataillé /ba.ta.je/ or /ba.tɑ.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | bataille /ba.taj/ or /ba.tɑj/ |
batailles /ba.taj/ or /ba.tɑj/ |
bataille /ba.taj/ or /ba.tɑj/ |
bataillons /ba.ta.jɔ̃/ or /ba.tɑ.jɔ̃/ |
bataillez /ba.ta.je/ or /ba.tɑ.je/ |
bataillent /ba.taj/ or /ba.tɑj/ |
| imperfect | bataillais /ba.ta.jɛ/ or /ba.tɑ.jɛ/ |
bataillais /ba.ta.jɛ/ or /ba.tɑ.jɛ/ |
bataillait /ba.ta.jɛ/ or /ba.tɑ.jɛ/ |
bataillions /ba.taj.jɔ̃/ or /ba.tɑj.jɔ̃/ |
batailliez /ba.taj.je/ or /ba.tɑj.je/ |
bataillaient /ba.ta.jɛ/ or /ba.tɑ.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | bataillai /ba.ta.je/ or /ba.tɑ.je/ |
bataillas /ba.ta.ja/ or /ba.tɑ.ja/ |
batailla /ba.ta.ja/ or /ba.tɑ.ja/ |
bataillâmes /ba.ta.jam/ or /ba.tɑ.jam/ |
bataillâtes /ba.ta.jat/ or /ba.tɑ.jat/ |
bataillèrent /ba.ta.jɛʁ/ or /ba.tɑ.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | bataillerai /ba.taj.ʁe/ or /ba.tɑj.ʁe/ |
batailleras /ba.taj.ʁa/ or /ba.tɑj.ʁa/ |
bataillera /ba.taj.ʁa/ or /ba.tɑj.ʁa/ |
bataillerons /ba.taj.ʁɔ̃/ or /ba.tɑj.ʁɔ̃/ |
bataillerez /ba.taj.ʁe/ or /ba.tɑj.ʁe/ |
batailleront /ba.taj.ʁɔ̃/ or /ba.tɑj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | bataillerais /ba.taj.ʁɛ/ or /ba.tɑj.ʁɛ/ |
bataillerais /ba.taj.ʁɛ/ or /ba.tɑj.ʁɛ/ |
bataillerait /ba.taj.ʁɛ/ or /ba.tɑj.ʁɛ/ |
bataillerions /ba.ta.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ba.tɑ.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
batailleriez /ba.ta.jə.ʁje/ or /ba.tɑ.jə.ʁje/ |
batailleraient /ba.taj.ʁɛ/ or /ba.tɑj.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 | bataille /ba.taj/ or /ba.tɑj/ |
batailles /ba.taj/ or /ba.tɑj/ |
bataille /ba.taj/ or /ba.tɑj/ |
bataillions /ba.taj.jɔ̃/ or /ba.tɑj.jɔ̃/ |
batailliez /ba.taj.je/ or /ba.tɑj.je/ |
bataillent /ba.taj/ or /ba.tɑj/ |
| imperfect2 | bataillasse /ba.ta.jas/ or /ba.tɑ.jas/ |
bataillasses /ba.ta.jas/ or /ba.tɑ.jas/ |
bataillât /ba.ta.ja/ or /ba.tɑ.ja/ |
bataillassions /ba.ta.ja.sjɔ̃/ or /ba.tɑ.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
bataillassiez /ba.ta.ja.sje/ or /ba.tɑ.ja.sje/ |
bataillassent /ba.ta.jas/ or /ba.tɑ.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | bataille /ba.taj/ or /ba.tɑj/ |
— | bataillons /ba.ta.jɔ̃/ or /ba.tɑ.jɔ̃/ |
bataillez /ba.ta.je/ or /ba.tɑ.je/ |
— | |
| 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
- “batailler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.