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contacter
contacter
French
Verb
contacter
- to contact (all senses)
Conjugation
Conjugation of contacter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | contacter | avoir contacté | |||||
| gerund | en contactant | en ayant contacté | |||||
| present participle | contactant /kɔ̃.tak.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | contacté /kɔ̃.tak.te/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | contacte /kɔ̃.takt/ |
contactes /kɔ̃.takt/ |
contacte /kɔ̃.takt/ |
contactons /kɔ̃.tak.tɔ̃/ |
contactez /kɔ̃.tak.te/ |
contactent /kɔ̃.takt/ |
| imperfect | contactais /kɔ̃.tak.tɛ/ |
contactais /kɔ̃.tak.tɛ/ |
contactait /kɔ̃.tak.tɛ/ |
contactions /kɔ̃.tak.tjɔ̃/ |
contactiez /kɔ̃.tak.tje/ |
contactaient /kɔ̃.tak.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | contactai /kɔ̃.tak.te/ |
contactas /kɔ̃.tak.ta/ |
contacta /kɔ̃.tak.ta/ |
contactâmes /kɔ̃.tak.tam/ |
contactâtes /kɔ̃.tak.tat/ |
contactèrent /kɔ̃.tak.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | contacterai /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁe/ |
contacteras /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁa/ |
contactera /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁa/ |
contacterons /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
contacterez /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁe/ |
contacteront /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | contacterais /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁɛ/ |
contacterais /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁɛ/ |
contacterait /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁɛ/ |
contacterions /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
contacteriez /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁje/ |
contacteraient /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁɛ/ |
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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 | contacte /kɔ̃.takt/ |
contactes /kɔ̃.takt/ |
contacte /kɔ̃.takt/ |
contactions /kɔ̃.tak.tjɔ̃/ |
contactiez /kɔ̃.tak.tje/ |
contactent /kɔ̃.takt/ |
| imperfect1 |
contactasse /kɔ̃.tak.tas/ |
contactasses /kɔ̃.tak.tas/ |
contactât /kɔ̃.tak.ta/ |
contactassions /kɔ̃.tak.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
contactassiez /kɔ̃.tak.ta.sje/ |
contactassent /kɔ̃.tak.tas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | contacte /kɔ̃.takt/ |
— | contactons /kɔ̃.tak.tɔ̃/ |
contactez /kɔ̃.tak.te/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||