rebattre

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ battre.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʁə.batʁ/
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Verb

rebattre

to beat again, defeat again
to beat up again
to fight again
(cooking) to whisk or whip eggs
(card games) to reshuffle

Conjugation

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 *rebatt and *rebatts, it has the forms rebat and rebats. This is strictly a spelling change; pronunciation-wise, the verb is conjugated exactly like vendre.

Conjugation of rebattre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	rebattre
present participle or gerund¹	simple	rebattant /ʁə.ba.tɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rebattu /ʁə.ba.ty/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rebats /ʁə.ba/	rebats /ʁə.ba/	rebat /ʁə.ba/	rebattons /ʁə.ba.tɔ̃/	rebattez /ʁə.ba.te/	rebattent /ʁə.bat/
	imperfect	rebattais /ʁə.ba.tɛ/	rebattais /ʁə.ba.tɛ/	rebattait /ʁə.ba.tɛ/	rebattions /ʁə.ba.tjɔ̃/	rebattiez /ʁə.ba.tje/	rebattaient /ʁə.ba.tɛ/
	past historic²	rebattis /ʁə.ba.ti/	rebattis /ʁə.ba.ti/	rebattit /ʁə.ba.ti/	rebattîmes /ʁə.ba.tim/	rebattîtes /ʁə.ba.tit/	rebattirent /ʁə.ba.tiʁ/
	future	rebattrai /ʁə.ba.tʁe/	rebattras /ʁə.ba.tʁa/	rebattra /ʁə.ba.tʁa/	rebattrons /ʁə.ba.tʁɔ̃/	rebattrez /ʁə.ba.tʁe/	rebattront /ʁə.ba.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rebattrais /ʁə.ba.tʁɛ/	rebattrais /ʁə.ba.tʁɛ/	rebattrait /ʁə.ba.tʁɛ/	rebattrions /ʁə.ba.tʁi.jɔ̃/	rebattriez /ʁə.ba.tʁi.je/	rebattraient /ʁə.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	rebatte /ʁə.bat/	rebattes /ʁə.bat/	rebatte /ʁə.bat/	rebattions /ʁə.ba.tjɔ̃/	rebattiez /ʁə.ba.tje/	rebattent /ʁə.bat/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	rebattisse /ʁə.ba.tis/	rebattisses /ʁə.ba.tis/	rebattît /ʁə.ba.ti/	rebattissions /ʁə.ba.ti.sjɔ̃/	rebattissiez /ʁə.ba.ti.sje/	rebattissent /ʁə.ba.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	rebats /ʁə.ba/	—	rebattons /ʁə.ba.tɔ̃/	rebattez /ʁə.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: 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).