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abattre
abattre
French
Verb
abattre
- to butcher; to slaughter for meat
- to shoot dead
- to cut down (a tree)
- to destroy or demolish (a wall)
- (reflexive) to fall down, especially of tall things, such as trees
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to descend upon with violence or furor
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, of lightning) to strike
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 *abatt and *abatts, it has the forms abat and abats. This is strictly a spelling change; pronunciation-wise, the verb is conjugated exactly like vendre.
Conjugation of abattre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | abattre | avoir abattu | |||||
| gerund | en abattant | en ayant abattu | |||||
| present participle | abattant /a.ba.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | abattu /a.ba.ty/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | abats /a.ba/ |
abats /a.ba/ |
abat /a.ba/ |
abattons /a.ba.tɔ̃/ |
abattez /a.ba.te/ |
abattent /a.bat/ |
| imperfect | abattais /a.ba.tɛ/ |
abattais /a.ba.tɛ/ |
abattait /a.ba.tɛ/ |
abattions /a.ba.tjɔ̃/ |
abattiez /a.ba.tje/ |
abattaient /a.ba.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | abattis /a.ba.ti/ |
abattis /a.ba.ti/ |
abattit /a.ba.ti/ |
abattîmes /a.ba.tim/ |
abattîtes /a.ba.tit/ |
abattirent /a.ba.tiʁ/ |
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| future | abattrai /a.ba.tʁe/ |
abattras /a.ba.tʁa/ |
abattra /a.ba.tʁa/ |
abattrons /a.ba.tʁɔ̃/ |
abattrez /a.ba.tʁe/ |
abattront /a.ba.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | abattrais /a.ba.tʁɛ/ |
abattrais /a.ba.tʁɛ/ |
abattrait /a.ba.tʁɛ/ |
abattrions /a.ba.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
abattriez /a.ba.tʁi.je/ |
abattraient /a.ba.tʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | abatte /a.bat/ |
abattes /a.bat/ |
abatte /a.bat/ |
abattions /a.ba.tjɔ̃/ |
abattiez /a.ba.tje/ |
abattent /a.bat/ |
| imperfect1 |
abattisse /a.ba.tis/ |
abattisses /a.ba.tis/ |
abattît /a.ba.ti/ |
abattissions /a.ba.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
abattissiez /a.ba.ti.sje/ |
abattissent /a.ba.tis/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | abats /a.ba/ |
— | abattons /a.ba.tɔ̃/ |
abattez /a.ba.te/ |
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Etymology
From Old French abatre, from Vulgar Latin *abbatere, present active infinitive of *abbatō, *abbatuō, from Latin battuō from Gaulish [Term?].
Verb
abattre
- (Jersey) to knock down