contrister

French

Etymology

From Latin contristāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tʁis.te/

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Verb

contrister

1. (transitive) to grieve (for)

Conjugation

Conjugation of contrister (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	contrister
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	contristant /kɔ̃.tʁis.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		contristé /kɔ̃.tʁis.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	contriste /kɔ̃.tʁist/	contristes /kɔ̃.tʁist/	contriste /kɔ̃.tʁist/	contristons /kɔ̃.tʁis.tɔ̃/	contristez /kɔ̃.tʁis.te/	contristent /kɔ̃.tʁist/
	imperfect	contristais /kɔ̃.tʁis.tɛ/	contristais /kɔ̃.tʁis.tɛ/	contristait /kɔ̃.tʁis.tɛ/	contristions /kɔ̃.tʁis.tjɔ̃/	contristiez /kɔ̃.tʁis.tje/	contristaient /kɔ̃.tʁis.tɛ/
	past historic2	contristai /kɔ̃.tʁis.te/	contristas /kɔ̃.tʁis.ta/	contrista /kɔ̃.tʁis.ta/	contristâmes /kɔ̃.tʁis.tam/	contristâtes /kɔ̃.tʁis.tat/	contristèrent /kɔ̃.tʁis.tɛʁ/
	future	contristerai /kɔ̃.tʁis.tə.ʁe/	contristeras /kɔ̃.tʁis.tə.ʁa/	contristera /kɔ̃.tʁis.tə.ʁa/	contristerons /kɔ̃.tʁis.tə.ʁɔ̃/	contristerez /kɔ̃.tʁis.tə.ʁe/	contristeront /kɔ̃.tʁis.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	contristerais /kɔ̃.tʁis.tə.ʁɛ/	contristerais /kɔ̃.tʁis.tə.ʁɛ/	contristerait /kɔ̃.tʁis.tə.ʁɛ/	contristerions /kɔ̃.tʁis.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	contristeriez /kɔ̃.tʁis.tə.ʁje/	contristeraient /kɔ̃.tʁis.tə.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	contriste /kɔ̃.tʁist/	contristes /kɔ̃.tʁist/	contriste /kɔ̃.tʁist/	contristions /kɔ̃.tʁis.tjɔ̃/	contristiez /kɔ̃.tʁis.tje/	contristent /kɔ̃.tʁist/
	imperfect2	contristasse /kɔ̃.tʁis.tas/	contristasses /kɔ̃.tʁis.tas/	contristât /kɔ̃.tʁis.ta/	contristassions /kɔ̃.tʁis.ta.sjɔ̃/	contristassiez /kɔ̃.tʁis.ta.sje/	contristassent /kɔ̃.tʁis.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	contriste /kɔ̃.tʁist/	—	contristons /kɔ̃.tʁis.tɔ̃/	contristez /kɔ̃.tʁis.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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

contrīster

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of contrīstō