rebattre
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
rebattre
- to beat again, defeat again
- to beat up again
- to fight again
- (cooking) to whisk or whip eggs
- (card games) to reshuffle
Conjugation edit
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 *rebatt and *rebatts, it has the forms rebat and rebats. This is strictly a spelling change; pronunciation-wise, the verb is conjugated exactly like vendre.
Conjugation of rebattre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rebattre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rebattant /ʁə.ba.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rebattu /ʁə.ba.ty/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rebats /ʁə.ba/ |
rebats /ʁə.ba/ |
rebat /ʁə.ba/ |
rebattons /ʁə.ba.tɔ̃/ |
rebattez /ʁə.ba.te/ |
rebattent /ʁə.bat/ |
| imperfect | rebattais /ʁə.ba.tɛ/ |
rebattais /ʁə.ba.tɛ/ |
rebattait /ʁə.ba.tɛ/ |
rebattions /ʁə.ba.tjɔ̃/ |
rebattiez /ʁə.ba.tje/ |
rebattaient /ʁə.ba.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rebattis /ʁə.ba.ti/ |
rebattis /ʁə.ba.ti/ |
rebattit /ʁə.ba.ti/ |
rebattîmes /ʁə.ba.tim/ |
rebattîtes /ʁə.ba.tit/ |
rebattirent /ʁə.ba.tiʁ/ | |
| future | rebattrai /ʁə.ba.tʁe/ |
rebattras /ʁə.ba.tʁa/ |
rebattra /ʁə.ba.tʁa/ |
rebattrons /ʁə.ba.tʁɔ̃/ |
rebattrez /ʁə.ba.tʁe/ |
rebattront /ʁə.ba.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rebattrais /ʁə.ba.tʁɛ/ |
rebattrais /ʁə.ba.tʁɛ/ |
rebattrait /ʁə.ba.tʁɛ/ |
rebattrions /ʁə.ba.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
rebattriez /ʁə.ba.tʁi.je/ |
rebattraient /ʁə.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 | rebatte /ʁə.bat/ |
rebattes /ʁə.bat/ |
rebatte /ʁə.bat/ |
rebattions /ʁə.ba.tjɔ̃/ |
rebattiez /ʁə.ba.tje/ |
rebattent /ʁə.bat/ |
| imperfect2 | rebattisse /ʁə.ba.tis/ |
rebattisses /ʁə.ba.tis/ |
rebattît /ʁə.ba.ti/ |
rebattissions /ʁə.ba.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
rebattissiez /ʁə.ba.ti.sje/ |
rebattissent /ʁə.ba.tis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rebats /ʁə.ba/ |
— | rebattons /ʁə.ba.tɔ̃/ |
rebattez /ʁə.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “rebattre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.