contrer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tʁe/

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Verb

contrer

1. to block, to counter, to counteract

Conjugation

Conjugation of contrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	contrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	contrant /kɔ̃.tʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		contré /kɔ̃.tʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	contre /kɔ̃tʁ/	contres /kɔ̃tʁ/	contre /kɔ̃tʁ/	controns /kɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/	contrez /kɔ̃.tʁe/	contrent /kɔ̃tʁ/
	imperfect	contrais /kɔ̃.tʁɛ/	contrais /kɔ̃.tʁɛ/	contrait /kɔ̃.tʁɛ/	contrions /kɔ̃.tʁi.jɔ̃/	contriez /kɔ̃.tʁi.je/	contraient /kɔ̃.tʁɛ/
	past historic2	contrai /kɔ̃.tʁe/	contras /kɔ̃.tʁa/	contra /kɔ̃.tʁa/	contrâmes /kɔ̃.tʁam/	contrâtes /kɔ̃.tʁat/	contrèrent /kɔ̃.tʁɛʁ/
	future	contrerai /kɔ̃.tʁə.ʁe/	contreras /kɔ̃.tʁə.ʁa/	contrera /kɔ̃.tʁə.ʁa/	contrerons /kɔ̃.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/	contrerez /kɔ̃.tʁə.ʁe/	contreront /kɔ̃.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	contrerais /kɔ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/	contrerais /kɔ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/	contrerait /kɔ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/	contrerions /kɔ̃.tʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	contreriez /kɔ̃.tʁə.ʁje/	contreraient /kɔ̃.tʁə.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	contre /kɔ̃tʁ/	contres /kɔ̃tʁ/	contre /kɔ̃tʁ/	contrions /kɔ̃.tʁi.jɔ̃/	contriez /kɔ̃.tʁi.je/	contrent /kɔ̃tʁ/
	imperfect2	contrasse /kɔ̃.tʁas/	contrasses /kɔ̃.tʁas/	contrât /kɔ̃.tʁa/	contrassions /kɔ̃.tʁa.sjɔ̃/	contrassiez /kɔ̃.tʁa.sje/	contrassent /kɔ̃.tʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	contre /kɔ̃tʁ/	—	controns /kɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/	contrez /kɔ̃.tʁe/	—
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

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