combattre

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French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French combatre, from Old French combatre, from Vulgar Latin *combattere, from Latin cum + battuō, from Gaulish.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔ̃.batʁ/
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Verb

combattre

  1. to fight, to combat (against)
  2. to oppose, to struggle

Conjugation

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 *combatt and *combatts, it has the forms combat and combats. This is strictly a spelling change; pronunciation-wise, the verb is conjugated exactly like vendre.

Conjugation of combattre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple combattre
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple combattant
/kɔ̃.ba.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle combattu
/kɔ̃.ba.ty/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present combats
/kɔ̃.ba/ 		combats
/kɔ̃.ba/ 		combat
/kɔ̃.ba/ 		combattons
/kɔ̃.ba.tɔ̃/ 		combattez
/kɔ̃.ba.te/ 		combattent
/kɔ̃.bat/
imperfect combattais
/kɔ̃.ba.tɛ/ 		combattais
/kɔ̃.ba.tɛ/ 		combattait
/kɔ̃.ba.tɛ/ 		combattions
/kɔ̃.ba.tjɔ̃/ 		combattiez
/kɔ̃.ba.tje/ 		combattaient
/kɔ̃.ba.tɛ/
past historic2 combattis
/kɔ̃.ba.ti/ 		combattis
/kɔ̃.ba.ti/ 		combattit
/kɔ̃.ba.ti/ 		combattîmes
/kɔ̃.ba.tim/ 		combattîtes
/kɔ̃.ba.tit/ 		combattirent
/kɔ̃.ba.tiʁ/
future combattrai
/kɔ̃.ba.tʁe/ 		combattras
/kɔ̃.ba.tʁa/ 		combattra
/kɔ̃.ba.tʁa/ 		combattrons
/kɔ̃.ba.tʁɔ̃/ 		combattrez
/kɔ̃.ba.tʁe/ 		combattront
/kɔ̃.ba.tʁɔ̃/
conditional combattrais
/kɔ̃.ba.tʁɛ/ 		combattrais
/kɔ̃.ba.tʁɛ/ 		combattrait
/kɔ̃.ba.tʁɛ/ 		combattrions
/kɔ̃.ba.tʁi.jɔ̃/ 		combattriez
/kɔ̃.ba.tʁi.je/ 		combattraient
/kɔ̃.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 combatte
/kɔ̃.bat/ 		combattes
/kɔ̃.bat/ 		combatte
/kɔ̃.bat/ 		combattions
/kɔ̃.ba.tjɔ̃/ 		combattiez
/kɔ̃.ba.tje/ 		combattent
/kɔ̃.bat/
imperfect2 combattisse
/kɔ̃.ba.tis/ 		combattisses
/kɔ̃.ba.tis/ 		combattît
/kɔ̃.ba.ti/ 		combattissions
/kɔ̃.ba.ti.sjɔ̃/ 		combattissiez
/kɔ̃.ba.ti.sje/ 		combattissent
/kɔ̃.ba.tis/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — combats
/kɔ̃.ba/ 		— combattons
/kɔ̃.ba.tɔ̃/ 		combattez
/kɔ̃.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).

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