contrecarrer

French

Etymology

From contre- +‎ carrer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁe/

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Verb

contrecarrer

1. to thwart; to stymie

Conjugation

Conjugation of contrecarrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	contrecarrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	contrecarrant /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		contrecarré /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	contrecarre /kɔ̃.tʁə.kaʁ/	contrecarres /kɔ̃.tʁə.kaʁ/	contrecarre /kɔ̃.tʁə.kaʁ/	contrecarrons /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁɔ̃/	contrecarrez /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁe/	contrecarrent /kɔ̃.tʁə.kaʁ/
	imperfect	contrecarrais /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁɛ/	contrecarrais /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁɛ/	contrecarrait /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁɛ/	contrecarrions /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁjɔ̃/	contrecarriez /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁje/	contrecarraient /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	contrecarrai /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁe/	contrecarras /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁa/	contrecarra /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁa/	contrecarrâmes /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁam/	contrecarrâtes /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁat/	contrecarrèrent /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁɛʁ/
	future	contrecarrerai /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁə.ʁe/	contrecarreras /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁə.ʁa/	contrecarrera /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁə.ʁa/	contrecarrerons /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	contrecarrerez /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁə.ʁe/	contrecarreront /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	contrecarrerais /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁə.ʁɛ/	contrecarrerais /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁə.ʁɛ/	contrecarrerait /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁə.ʁɛ/	contrecarrerions /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	contrecarreriez /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁə.ʁje/	contrecarreraient /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.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	contrecarre /kɔ̃.tʁə.kaʁ/	contrecarres /kɔ̃.tʁə.kaʁ/	contrecarre /kɔ̃.tʁə.kaʁ/	contrecarrions /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁjɔ̃/	contrecarriez /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁje/	contrecarrent /kɔ̃.tʁə.kaʁ/
	imperfect2	contrecarrasse /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁas/	contrecarrasses /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁas/	contrecarrât /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁa/	contrecarrassions /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	contrecarrassiez /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁa.sje/	contrecarrassent /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	contrecarre /kɔ̃.tʁə.kaʁ/	—	contrecarrons /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.ʁɔ̃/	contrecarrez /kɔ̃.tʁə.ka.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: 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).

Descendants

• → German: konterkarieren

Further reading

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