abattre
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French abbatre, from Old French abatre, from Late Latin abbattere, from Latin battere.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]abattre
- to butcher; to slaughter for meat
- to shoot dead
- to cut down (a tree)
- to destroy or demolish (a wall)
- (reflexive) to fall down, especially of tall things, such as trees
- (pronominal) to descend upon with violence or furor
- 2021 December 16, Cécile Ducourtieux, “Au Royaume-Uni, la progression d’Omicron est « stupéfiante, jamais observée jusqu’à présent »”, in Le Monde[1]:
- « Fulgurante », « phénoménale » ou « stupéfiante » : les conseillers scientifiques du gouvernement britannique n’ont pas de mots assez forts pour qualifier la vague Omicron qui s’abat sur le Royaume-Uni.
- "Striking", "phenomenal", or "stupefying": the scientific advisers to the British government do not have words strong enough to describe the Omicron wave which descending upon the United Kingdom.
- (pronominal, of lightning) to strike
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 *abatt and *abatts, it has the forms abat and abats. This is strictly a spelling change; pronunciation-wise, the verb is conjugated exactly like vendre.
Conjugation of abattre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | abattre | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | abattant /a.ba.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | abattu /a.ba.ty/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | abats /a.ba/ |
abats /a.ba/ |
abat /a.ba/ |
abattons /a.ba.tɔ̃/ |
abattez /a.ba.te/ |
abattent /a.bat/ |
imperfect | abattais /a.ba.tɛ/ |
abattais /a.ba.tɛ/ |
abattait /a.ba.tɛ/ |
abattions /a.ba.tjɔ̃/ |
abattiez /a.ba.tje/ |
abattaient /a.ba.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | abattis /a.ba.ti/ |
abattis /a.ba.ti/ |
abattit /a.ba.ti/ |
abattîmes /a.ba.tim/ |
abattîtes /a.ba.tit/ |
abattirent /a.ba.tiʁ/ | |
future | abattrai /a.ba.tʁe/ |
abattras /a.ba.tʁa/ |
abattra /a.ba.tʁa/ |
abattrons /a.ba.tʁɔ̃/ |
abattrez /a.ba.tʁe/ |
abattront /a.ba.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | abattrais /a.ba.tʁɛ/ |
abattrais /a.ba.tʁɛ/ |
abattrait /a.ba.tʁɛ/ |
abattrions /a.ba.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
abattriez /a.ba.tʁi.je/ |
abattraient /a.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 | abatte /a.bat/ |
abattes /a.bat/ |
abatte /a.bat/ |
abattions /a.ba.tjɔ̃/ |
abattiez /a.ba.tje/ |
abattent /a.bat/ |
imperfect2 | abattisse /a.ba.tis/ |
abattisses /a.ba.tis/ |
abattît /a.ba.ti/ |
abattissions /a.ba.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
abattissiez /a.ba.ti.sje/ |
abattissent /a.ba.tis/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | abats /a.ba/ |
— | abattons /a.ba.tɔ̃/ |
abattez /a.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]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “abattre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French abatre, from Late Latin abbattere, from Latin battere.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]abattre
- (Jersey) to knock down
References
[edit]- Spence, N.C.W. (1960). Glossary of Jersey-French. Oxford: Blackwell. p. 39.
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