contrattaquer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.ke/

Verb

contrattaquer

1. post-1990 spelling of contre-attaquer

Conjugation

Conjugation of contrattaquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	contrattaquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	contrattaquant /kɔ̃.tʁa.ta.kɑ̃/
	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/
	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
	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).