tracter

French

Etymology 1

From tracteur.

Verb

tracter

1. (of a vehicle) to pull, to pull behind

Conjugation

Conjugation of tracter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tracter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tractant /tʁak.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tracté /tʁak.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tracte /tʁakt/	tractes /tʁakt/	tracte /tʁakt/	tractons /tʁak.tɔ̃/	tractez /tʁak.te/	tractent /tʁakt/
	imperfect	tractais /tʁak.tɛ/	tractais /tʁak.tɛ/	tractait /tʁak.tɛ/	tractions /tʁak.tjɔ̃/	tractiez /tʁak.tje/	tractaient /tʁak.tɛ/
	past historic2	tractai /tʁak.te/	tractas /tʁak.ta/	tracta /tʁak.ta/	tractâmes /tʁak.tam/	tractâtes /tʁak.tat/	tractèrent /tʁak.tɛʁ/
	future	tracterai /tʁak.tə.ʁe/	tracteras /tʁak.tə.ʁa/	tractera /tʁak.tə.ʁa/	tracterons /tʁak.tə.ʁɔ̃/	tracterez /tʁak.tə.ʁe/	tracteront /tʁak.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tracterais /tʁak.tə.ʁɛ/	tracterais /tʁak.tə.ʁɛ/	tracterait /tʁak.tə.ʁɛ/	tracterions /tʁak.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	tracteriez /tʁak.tə.ʁje/	tracteraient /tʁak.tə.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	tracte /tʁakt/	tractes /tʁakt/	tracte /tʁakt/	tractions /tʁak.tjɔ̃/	tractiez /tʁak.tje/	tractent /tʁakt/
	imperfect2	tractasse /tʁak.tas/	tractasses /tʁak.tas/	tractât /tʁak.ta/	tractassions /tʁak.ta.sjɔ̃/	tractassiez /tʁak.ta.sje/	tractassent /tʁak.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tracte /tʁakt/	—	tractons /tʁak.tɔ̃/	tractez /tʁak.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).

Etymology 2

From tract.

Verb

tracter

1. to hand out flyers

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

tracter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of tractō