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contraindre
contraindre
French
Verb
contraindre
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like peindre. It uses the same endings as rendre or vendre, but its -nd- becomes -gn- before a vowel, and its past participle ends in ‘t’ instead of a vowel.
Conjugation of contraindre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | contraindre | avoir contraint | |||||
| gerund | en contraignant | en ayant contraint | |||||
| present participle | contraignant /kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | contraint /kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | contrains /kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃/ |
contrains /kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃/ |
contraint /kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃/ |
contraignons /kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲɔ̃/ |
contraignez /kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲe/ |
contraignent /kɔ̃.tʁɛɲ/ |
| imperfect | contraignais /kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲɛ/ |
contraignais /kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲɛ/ |
contraignait /kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲɛ/ |
contraignions /kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ |
contraigniez /kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲje/ |
contraignaient /kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | contraignis /kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲi/ |
contraignis /kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲi/ |
contraignit /kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲi/ |
contraignîmes /kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲim/ |
contraignîtes /kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲit/ |
contraignirent /kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲiʁ/ |
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| future | contraindrai /kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃.dʁe/ |
contraindras /kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃.dʁa/ |
contraindra /kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃.dʁa/ |
contraindrons /kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/ |
contraindrez /kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃.dʁe/ |
contraindront /kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | contraindrais /kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃.dʁɛ/ |
contraindrais /kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃.dʁɛ/ |
contraindrait /kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃.dʁɛ/ |
contraindrions /kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/ |
contraindriez /kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃.dʁi.je/ |
contraindraient /kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃.dʁɛ/ |
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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 | contraigne /kɔ̃.tʁɛɲ/ |
contraignes /kɔ̃.tʁɛɲ/ |
contraigne /kɔ̃.tʁɛɲ/ |
contraignions /kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲjɔ̃/ |
contraigniez /kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲje/ |
contraignent /kɔ̃.tʁɛɲ/ |
| imperfect1 |
contraignisse /kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲis/ |
contraignisses /kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲis/ |
contraignît /kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲi/ |
contraignissions /kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲi.sjɔ̃/ |
contraignissiez /kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲi.sje/ |
contraignissent /kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | contrains /kɔ̃.tʁɛ̃/ |
— | contraignons /kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲɔ̃/ |
contraignez /kɔ̃.tʁɛ.ɲe/ |
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