battre

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See also: bättre

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French battre, from Old French batre, from Latin battere, from earlier battuere.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /batʁ/
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Verb

battre

  1. to beat; to defeat
  2. to beat up
  3. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to fight
    • 2018, Zaz, Saint-Valentin:
      J’irai dans un bar ce soir. […] Je me battrai pour une place au comptoir.
      I'm going to a bar tonight. I will fight for a seat at the counter.
  4. (cooking) to whisk or whip (eggs)
  5. (agriculture) to thresh
  6. (card games) to shuffle

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like vendre, perdre, etc. (sometimes called the regular -re verbs), except that instead of *batt and *batts, it has the forms bat and bats. This is strictly a spelling change; pronunciation-wise, the verb is conjugated exactly like vendre.

Conjugation of battre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple battre
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple battant
/ba.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle battu
/ba.ty/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present bats
/ba/ 		bats
/ba/ 		bat
/ba/ 		battons
/ba.tɔ̃/ 		battez
/ba.te/ 		battent
/bat/
imperfect battais
/ba.tɛ/ 		battais
/ba.tɛ/ 		battait
/ba.tɛ/ 		battions
/ba.tjɔ̃/ 		battiez
/ba.tje/ 		battaient
/ba.tɛ/
past historic2 battis
/ba.ti/ 		battis
/ba.ti/ 		battit
/ba.ti/ 		battîmes
/ba.tim/ 		battîtes
/ba.tit/ 		battirent
/ba.tiʁ/
future battrai
/ba.tʁe/ 		battras
/ba.tʁa/ 		battra
/ba.tʁa/ 		battrons
/ba.tʁɔ̃/ 		battrez
/ba.tʁe/ 		battront
/ba.tʁɔ̃/
conditional battrais
/ba.tʁɛ/ 		battrais
/ba.tʁɛ/ 		battrait
/ba.tʁɛ/ 		battrions
/ba.tʁi.jɔ̃/ 		battriez
/ba.tʁi.je/ 		battraient
/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 batte
/bat/ 		battes
/bat/ 		batte
/bat/ 		battions
/ba.tjɔ̃/ 		battiez
/ba.tje/ 		battent
/bat/
imperfect2 battisse
/ba.tis/ 		battisses
/ba.tis/ 		battît
/ba.ti/ 		battissions
/ba.ti.sjɔ̃/ 		battissiez
/ba.ti.sje/ 		battissent
/ba.tis/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — bats
/ba/ 		— battons
/ba.tɔ̃/ 		battez
/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:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

Further reading

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French batre.

Verb

battre

  1. (reflexive, se battre) to fight; to engage in combat

Related terms

Descendants

  • French: battre

Norman

Etymology

From Old French batre, from Latin battere, from earlier battuere.

Verb

battre (gerund batt'tie)

  1. (Jersey) to beat
  2. (Jersey, reflexive, s'battre) to fight

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