contacter
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.tak.te/
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Verb
contacter
- to contact (all senses)
Conjugation
Conjugation of contacter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | contacter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | contactant /kɔ̃.tak.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | contacté /kɔ̃.tak.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | contacte /kɔ̃.takt/ |
contactes /kɔ̃.takt/ |
contacte /kɔ̃.takt/ |
contactons /kɔ̃.tak.tɔ̃/ |
contactez /kɔ̃.tak.te/ |
contactent /kɔ̃.takt/ |
| imperfect | contactais /kɔ̃.tak.tɛ/ |
contactais /kɔ̃.tak.tɛ/ |
contactait /kɔ̃.tak.tɛ/ |
contactions /kɔ̃.tak.tjɔ̃/ |
contactiez /kɔ̃.tak.tje/ |
contactaient /kɔ̃.tak.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | contactai /kɔ̃.tak.te/ |
contactas /kɔ̃.tak.ta/ |
contacta /kɔ̃.tak.ta/ |
contactâmes /kɔ̃.tak.tam/ |
contactâtes /kɔ̃.tak.tat/ |
contactèrent /kɔ̃.tak.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | contacterai /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁe/ |
contacteras /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁa/ |
contactera /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁa/ |
contacterons /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
contacterez /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁe/ |
contacteront /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | contacterais /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁɛ/ |
contacterais /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁɛ/ |
contacterait /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁɛ/ |
contacterions /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
contacteriez /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁje/ |
contacteraient /kɔ̃.tak.tə.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 | contacte /kɔ̃.takt/ |
contactes /kɔ̃.takt/ |
contacte /kɔ̃.takt/ |
contactions /kɔ̃.tak.tjɔ̃/ |
contactiez /kɔ̃.tak.tje/ |
contactent /kɔ̃.takt/ |
| imperfect2 | contactasse /kɔ̃.tak.tas/ |
contactasses /kɔ̃.tak.tas/ |
contactât /kɔ̃.tak.ta/ |
contactassions /kɔ̃.tak.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
contactassiez /kɔ̃.tak.ta.sje/ |
contactassent /kɔ̃.tak.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | contacte /kɔ̃.takt/ |
— | contactons /kɔ̃.tak.tɔ̃/ |
contactez /kɔ̃.tak.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). | |||||||
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: kontakte
Further reading
- “contacter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012