atterrer

French

Etymology

From a- +‎ terre +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.tɛ.ʁe/ ~ /a.te.ʁe/

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Verb

atterrer

1. (transitive) to fell
2. (transitive) to appal
3. (intransitive) to land (a ship); to touchdown (an aircraft)

Conjugation

Conjugation of atterrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	atterrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	atterrant /a.tɛ.ʁɑ̃/ or /a.te.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		atterré /a.tɛ.ʁe/ or /a.te.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	atterre /a.tɛʁ/	atterres /a.tɛʁ/	atterre /a.tɛʁ/	atterrons /a.tɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.te.ʁɔ̃/	atterrez /a.tɛ.ʁe/ or /a.te.ʁe/	atterrent /a.tɛʁ/
	imperfect	atterrais /a.tɛ.ʁɛ/ or /a.te.ʁɛ/	atterrais /a.tɛ.ʁɛ/ or /a.te.ʁɛ/	atterrait /a.tɛ.ʁɛ/ or /a.te.ʁɛ/	atterrions /a.tɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.te.ʁjɔ̃/	atterriez /a.tɛ.ʁje/ or /a.te.ʁje/	atterraient /a.tɛ.ʁɛ/ or /a.te.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	atterrai /a.tɛ.ʁe/ or /a.te.ʁe/	atterras /a.tɛ.ʁa/ or /a.te.ʁa/	atterra /a.tɛ.ʁa/ or /a.te.ʁa/	atterrâmes /a.tɛ.ʁam/ or /a.te.ʁam/	atterrâtes /a.tɛ.ʁat/ or /a.te.ʁat/	atterrèrent /a.tɛ.ʁɛʁ/ or /a.te.ʁɛʁ/
	future	atterrerai /a.tɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /a.te.ʁə.ʁe/	atterreras /a.tɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /a.te.ʁə.ʁa/	atterrera /a.tɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /a.te.ʁə.ʁa/	atterrerons /a.tɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.te.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	atterrerez /a.tɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /a.te.ʁə.ʁe/	atterreront /a.tɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.te.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	atterrerais /a.tɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.te.ʁə.ʁɛ/	atterrerais /a.tɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.te.ʁə.ʁɛ/	atterrerait /a.tɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.te.ʁə.ʁɛ/	atterrerions /a.tɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.te.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	atterreriez /a.tɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ or /a.te.ʁə.ʁje/	atterreraient /a.tɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /a.te.ʁə.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	atterre /a.tɛʁ/	atterres /a.tɛʁ/	atterre /a.tɛʁ/	atterrions /a.tɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.te.ʁjɔ̃/	atterriez /a.tɛ.ʁje/ or /a.te.ʁje/	atterrent /a.tɛʁ/
	imperfect2	atterrasse /a.tɛ.ʁas/ or /a.te.ʁas/	atterrasses /a.tɛ.ʁas/ or /a.te.ʁas/	atterrât /a.tɛ.ʁa/ or /a.te.ʁa/	atterrassions /a.tɛ.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ or /a.te.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	atterrassiez /a.tɛ.ʁa.sje/ or /a.te.ʁa.sje/	atterrassent /a.tɛ.ʁas/ or /a.te.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	atterre /a.tɛʁ/	—	atterrons /a.tɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.te.ʁɔ̃/	atterrez /a.tɛ.ʁe/ or /a.te.ʁe/	—
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

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