atterrer
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.tɛ.ʁe/ ~ /a.te.ʁe/
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Verb
atterrer
- (transitive) to fell
- (transitive) to appal
- (intransitive) to land (a ship); to touchdown (an aircraft)
Conjugation
Conjugation of atterrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | atterrer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | atterrant /a.tɛ.ʁɑ̃/ or /a.te.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | atterré /a.tɛ.ʁe/ or /a.te.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | atterre /a.tɛʁ/ |
atterres /a.tɛʁ/ |
atterre /a.tɛʁ/ |
atterrons /a.tɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.te.ʁɔ̃/ |
atterrez /a.tɛ.ʁe/ or /a.te.ʁe/ |
atterrent /a.tɛʁ/ |
| imperfect | atterrais /a.tɛ.ʁɛ/ or /a.te.ʁɛ/ |
atterrais /a.tɛ.ʁɛ/ or /a.te.ʁɛ/ |
atterrait /a.tɛ.ʁɛ/ or /a.te.ʁɛ/ |
atterrions /a.tɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.te.ʁjɔ̃/ |
atterriez /a.tɛ.ʁje/ or /a.te.ʁje/ |
atterraient /a.tɛ.ʁɛ/ or /a.te.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | atterrai /a.tɛ.ʁe/ or /a.te.ʁe/ |
atterras /a.tɛ.ʁa/ or /a.te.ʁa/ |
atterra /a.tɛ.ʁa/ or /a.te.ʁa/ |
atterrâmes /a.tɛ.ʁam/ or /a.te.ʁam/ |
atterrâtes /a.tɛ.ʁat/ or /a.te.ʁat/ |
atterrèrent /a.tɛ.ʁɛʁ/ or /a.te.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | atterrerai /a.tɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /a.te.ʁə.ʁe/ |
atterreras /a.tɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /a.te.ʁə.ʁa/ |
atterrera /a.tɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /a.te.ʁə.ʁa/ |
atterrerons /a.tɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.te.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
atterrerez /a.tɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /a.te.ʁə.ʁe/ |
atterreront /a.tɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.te.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | atterrerais /a.tɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.te.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
atterrerais /a.tɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.te.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
atterrerait /a.tɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.te.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
atterrerions /a.tɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.te.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
atterreriez /a.tɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ or /a.te.ʁə.ʁje/ |
atterreraient /a.tɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.te.ʁə.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 | atterre /a.tɛʁ/ |
atterres /a.tɛʁ/ |
atterre /a.tɛʁ/ |
atterrions /a.tɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.te.ʁjɔ̃/ |
atterriez /a.tɛ.ʁje/ or /a.te.ʁje/ |
atterrent /a.tɛʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | atterrasse /a.tɛ.ʁas/ or /a.te.ʁas/ |
atterrasses /a.tɛ.ʁas/ or /a.te.ʁas/ |
atterrât /a.tɛ.ʁa/ or /a.te.ʁa/ |
atterrassions /a.tɛ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ or /a.te.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
atterrassiez /a.tɛ.ʁa.sje/ or /a.te.ʁa.sje/ |
atterrassent /a.tɛ.ʁas/ or /a.te.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | atterre /a.tɛʁ/ |
— | atterrons /a.tɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.te.ʁɔ̃/ |
atterrez /a.tɛ.ʁe/ or /a.te.ʁe/ |
— | |
| 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
- “atterrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012