ébattre

French

Etymology

From Old French esbatre.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /e.batʁ/

Verb

ébattre

(reflexive) to frolic
(transitive, rare) to frolic away

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 *ébatt and *ébatts, it has the forms ébat and ébats. This is strictly a spelling change; pronunciation-wise, the verb is conjugated exactly like vendre.

Conjugation of ébattre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	ébattre
present participle or gerund¹	simple	ébattant /e.ba.tɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ébattu /e.ba.ty/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ébats /e.ba/	ébats /e.ba/	ébat /e.ba/	ébattons /e.ba.tɔ̃/	ébattez /e.ba.te/	ébattent /e.bat/
	imperfect	ébattais /e.ba.tɛ/	ébattais /e.ba.tɛ/	ébattait /e.ba.tɛ/	ébattions /e.ba.tjɔ̃/	ébattiez /e.ba.tje/	ébattaient /e.ba.tɛ/
	past historic²	ébattis /e.ba.ti/	ébattis /e.ba.ti/	ébattit /e.ba.ti/	ébattîmes /e.ba.tim/	ébattîtes /e.ba.tit/	ébattirent /e.ba.tiʁ/
	future	ébattrai /e.ba.tʁe/	ébattras /e.ba.tʁa/	ébattra /e.ba.tʁa/	ébattrons /e.ba.tʁɔ̃/	ébattrez /e.ba.tʁe/	ébattront /e.ba.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ébattrais /e.ba.tʁɛ/	ébattrais /e.ba.tʁɛ/	ébattrait /e.ba.tʁɛ/	ébattrions /e.ba.tʁi.jɔ̃/	ébattriez /e.ba.tʁi.je/	ébattraient /e.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	ébatte /e.bat/	ébattes /e.bat/	ébatte /e.bat/	ébattions /e.ba.tjɔ̃/	ébattiez /e.ba.tje/	ébattent /e.bat/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	ébattisse /e.ba.tis/	ébattisses /e.ba.tis/	ébattît /e.ba.ti/	ébattissions /e.ba.ti.sjɔ̃/	ébattissiez /e.ba.ti.sje/	ébattissent /e.ba.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	ébats /e.ba/	—	ébattons /e.ba.tɔ̃/	ébattez /e.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).