contrevenir

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

contrevenir

1. (with the preposition à) to contravene

   contrevenir à un règlement ― contravene a rule

Conjugation

This is a verb in a group of -ir verbs. All verbs ending in -venir, such as convenir and devenir, are conjugated this way. Such verbs are the only verbs whose the past historic and subjunctive imperfect endings do not start in one of these thematic vowels (-a-, -i-, -u-).

Conjugation of contrevenir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	contrevenir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	contrevenant /kɔ̃.tʁə.v(ə).nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		contrevenu /kɔ̃.tʁə.v(ə).ny/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	contreviens /kɔ̃.tʁə.vjɛ̃/	contreviens /kɔ̃.tʁə.vjɛ̃/	contrevient /kɔ̃.tʁə.vjɛ̃/	contrevenons /kɔ̃.tʁə.v(ə).nɔ̃/	contrevenez /kɔ̃.tʁə.v(ə).ne/	contreviennent /kɔ̃.tʁə.vjɛn/
	imperfect	contrevenais /kɔ̃.tʁə.v(ə).nɛ/	contrevenais /kɔ̃.tʁə.v(ə).nɛ/	contrevenait /kɔ̃.tʁə.v(ə).nɛ/	contrevenions /kɔ̃.tʁə.və.njɔ̃/	contreveniez /kɔ̃.tʁə.və.nje/	contrevenaient /kɔ̃.tʁə.v(ə).nɛ/
	past historic2	contrevins /kɔ̃.tʁə.vɛ̃/	contrevins /kɔ̃.tʁə.vɛ̃/	contrevint /kɔ̃.tʁə.vɛ̃/	contrevînmes /kɔ̃.tʁə.vɛ̃m/	contrevîntes /kɔ̃.tʁə.vɛ̃t/	contrevinrent /kɔ̃.tʁə.vɛ̃ʁ/
	future	contreviendrai /kɔ̃.tʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁe/	contreviendras /kɔ̃.tʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁa/	contreviendra /kɔ̃.tʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁa/	contreviendrons /kɔ̃.tʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/	contreviendrez /kɔ̃.tʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁe/	contreviendront /kɔ̃.tʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	contreviendrais /kɔ̃.tʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁɛ/	contreviendrais /kɔ̃.tʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁɛ/	contreviendrait /kɔ̃.tʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁɛ/	contreviendrions /kɔ̃.tʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	contreviendriez /kɔ̃.tʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁi.je/	contreviendraient /kɔ̃.tʁə.vjɛ̃.dʁɛ/
(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	contrevienne /kɔ̃.tʁə.vjɛn/	contreviennes /kɔ̃.tʁə.vjɛn/	contrevienne /kɔ̃.tʁə.vjɛn/	contrevenions /kɔ̃.tʁə.və.njɔ̃/	contreveniez /kɔ̃.tʁə.və.nje/	contreviennent /kɔ̃.tʁə.vjɛn/
	imperfect2	contrevinsse /kɔ̃.tʁə.vɛ̃s/	contrevinsses /kɔ̃.tʁə.vɛ̃s/	contrevînt /kɔ̃.tʁə.vɛ̃/	contrevinssions /kɔ̃.tʁə.vɛ̃.sjɔ̃/	contrevinssiez /kɔ̃.tʁə.vɛ̃.sje/	contrevinssent /kɔ̃.tʁə.vɛ̃s/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	contreviens /kɔ̃.tʁə.vjɛ̃/	—	contrevenons /kɔ̃.tʁə.v(ə).nɔ̃/	contrevenez /kɔ̃.tʁə.v(ə).ne/	—
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

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