contrarier

French

Etymology

From Latin contrariāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁje/

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Verb

contrarier

1. to thwart
2. to upset
3. to stand in the way of

Conjugation

Conjugation of contrarier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	contrarier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	contrariant /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		contrarié /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	contrarie /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi/	contraries /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi/	contrarie /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi/	contrarions /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁjɔ̃/	contrariez /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁje/	contrarient /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi/
	imperfect	contrariais /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁjɛ/	contrariais /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁjɛ/	contrariait /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁjɛ/	contrariions /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi.jɔ̃/	contrariiez /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi.je/	contrariaient /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁjɛ/
	past historic2	contrariai /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁje/	contrarias /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁja/	contraria /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁja/	contrariâmes /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁjam/	contrariâtes /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁjat/	contrarièrent /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁjɛʁ/
	future	contrarierai /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi.ʁe/	contrarieras /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi.ʁa/	contrariera /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi.ʁa/	contrarierons /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/	contrarierez /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi.ʁe/	contrarieront /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	contrarierais /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi.ʁɛ/	contrarierais /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi.ʁɛ/	contrarierait /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi.ʁɛ/	contrarierions /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi.ʁjɔ̃/	contrarieriez /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi.ʁje/	contrarieraient /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi.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	contrarie /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi/	contraries /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi/	contrarie /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi/	contrariions /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi.jɔ̃/	contrariiez /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi.je/	contrarient /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi/
	imperfect2	contrariasse /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁjas/	contrariasses /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁjas/	contrariât /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁja/	contrariassions /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁja.sjɔ̃/	contrariassiez /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁja.sje/	contrariassent /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	contrarie /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁi/	—	contrarions /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁjɔ̃/	contrariez /kɔ̃.tʁa.ʁje/	—
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).

Further reading

• “contrarier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.