batailler

French

Etymology

From bataille +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.ta.je/ ~ /ba.tɑ.je/

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Verb

batailler

1. to battle

Conjugation

Conjugation of batailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	batailler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bataillant /ba.ta.jɑ̃/ or /ba.tɑ.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bataillé /ba.ta.je/ or /ba.tɑ.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bataille /ba.taj/ or /ba.tɑj/	batailles /ba.taj/ or /ba.tɑj/	bataille /ba.taj/ or /ba.tɑj/	bataillons /ba.ta.jɔ̃/ or /ba.tɑ.jɔ̃/	bataillez /ba.ta.je/ or /ba.tɑ.je/	bataillent /ba.taj/ or /ba.tɑj/
	imperfect	bataillais /ba.ta.jɛ/ or /ba.tɑ.jɛ/	bataillais /ba.ta.jɛ/ or /ba.tɑ.jɛ/	bataillait /ba.ta.jɛ/ or /ba.tɑ.jɛ/	bataillions /ba.taj.jɔ̃/ or /ba.tɑj.jɔ̃/	batailliez /ba.taj.je/ or /ba.tɑj.je/	bataillaient /ba.ta.jɛ/ or /ba.tɑ.jɛ/
	past historic2	bataillai /ba.ta.je/ or /ba.tɑ.je/	bataillas /ba.ta.ja/ or /ba.tɑ.ja/	batailla /ba.ta.ja/ or /ba.tɑ.ja/	bataillâmes /ba.ta.jam/ or /ba.tɑ.jam/	bataillâtes /ba.ta.jat/ or /ba.tɑ.jat/	bataillèrent /ba.ta.jɛʁ/ or /ba.tɑ.jɛʁ/
	future	bataillerai /ba.taj.ʁe/ or /ba.tɑj.ʁe/	batailleras /ba.taj.ʁa/ or /ba.tɑj.ʁa/	bataillera /ba.taj.ʁa/ or /ba.tɑj.ʁa/	bataillerons /ba.taj.ʁɔ̃/ or /ba.tɑj.ʁɔ̃/	bataillerez /ba.taj.ʁe/ or /ba.tɑj.ʁe/	batailleront /ba.taj.ʁɔ̃/ or /ba.tɑj.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bataillerais /ba.taj.ʁɛ/ or /ba.tɑj.ʁɛ/	bataillerais /ba.taj.ʁɛ/ or /ba.tɑj.ʁɛ/	bataillerait /ba.taj.ʁɛ/ or /ba.tɑj.ʁɛ/	bataillerions /ba.ta.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ba.tɑ.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	batailleriez /ba.ta.jə.ʁje/ or /ba.tɑ.jə.ʁje/	batailleraient /ba.taj.ʁɛ/ or /ba.tɑj.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	bataille /ba.taj/ or /ba.tɑj/	batailles /ba.taj/ or /ba.tɑj/	bataille /ba.taj/ or /ba.tɑj/	bataillions /ba.taj.jɔ̃/ or /ba.tɑj.jɔ̃/	batailliez /ba.taj.je/ or /ba.tɑj.je/	bataillent /ba.taj/ or /ba.tɑj/
	imperfect2	bataillasse /ba.ta.jas/ or /ba.tɑ.jas/	bataillasses /ba.ta.jas/ or /ba.tɑ.jas/	bataillât /ba.ta.ja/ or /ba.tɑ.ja/	bataillassions /ba.ta.ja.sjɔ̃/ or /ba.tɑ.ja.sjɔ̃/	bataillassiez /ba.ta.ja.sje/ or /ba.tɑ.ja.sje/	bataillassent /ba.ta.jas/ or /ba.tɑ.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bataille /ba.taj/ or /ba.tɑj/	—	bataillons /ba.ta.jɔ̃/ or /ba.tɑ.jɔ̃/	bataillez /ba.ta.je/ or /ba.tɑ.je/	—
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

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

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