contrattaquer

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.ke/
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Verb

contrattaquer

post-1990 spelling of contre-attaquer

Conjugation

Conjugation of contrattaquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	contrattaquer
present participle or gerund¹	simple	contrattaquant /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		contrattaqué /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	contrattaque /kɔ̃.tʁa.tak/	contrattaques /kɔ̃.tʁa.tak/	contrattaque /kɔ̃.tʁa.tak/	contrattaquons /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kɔ̃/	contrattaquez /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.ke/	contrattaquent /kɔ̃.tʁa.tak/
	imperfect	contrattaquais /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kɛ/	contrattaquais /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kɛ/	contrattaquait /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kɛ/	contrattaquions /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kjɔ̃/	contrattaquiez /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kje/	contrattaquaient /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kɛ/
	past historic²	contrattaquai /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.ke/	contrattaquas /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.ka/	contrattaqua /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.ka/	contrattaquâmes /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kam/	contrattaquâtes /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kat/	contrattaquèrent /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kɛʁ/
	future	contrattaquerai /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kʁe/	contrattaqueras /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kʁa/	contrattaquera /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kʁa/	contrattaquerons /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kʁɔ̃/	contrattaquerez /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kʁe/	contrattaqueront /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	contrattaquerais /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kʁɛ/	contrattaquerais /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kʁɛ/	contrattaquerait /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kʁɛ/	contrattaquerions /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	contrattaqueriez /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kə.ʁje/	contrattaqueraient /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kʁɛ/
(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	contrattaque /kɔ̃.tʁa.tak/	contrattaques /kɔ̃.tʁa.tak/	contrattaque /kɔ̃.tʁa.tak/	contrattaquions /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kjɔ̃/	contrattaquiez /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kje/	contrattaquent /kɔ̃.tʁa.tak/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	contrattaquasse /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kas/	contrattaquasses /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kas/	contrattaquât /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.ka/	contrattaquassions /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.ka.sjɔ̃/	contrattaquassiez /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.ka.sje/	contrattaquassent /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	contrattaque /kɔ̃.tʁa.tak/	—	contrattaquons /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kɔ̃/	contrattaquez /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.ke/	—
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).