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racheter
racheter
French
Verb
racheter
- to buy out, buy off
- (reflexive) to make amends
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Conjugation
This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il rachète rather than *il rachete. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.
Conjugation of racheter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | racheter | avoir racheté | |||||
| gerund | en rachetant | en ayant racheté | |||||
| present participle | rachetant /ʁaʃ.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | racheté /ʁaʃ.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 | rachète /ʁa.ʃɛt/ |
rachètes /ʁa.ʃɛt/ |
rachète /ʁa.ʃɛt/ |
rachetons /ʁaʃ.tɔ̃/ |
rachetez /ʁaʃ.te/ |
rachètent /ʁa.ʃɛt/ |
| imperfect | rachetais /ʁaʃ.tɛ/ |
rachetais /ʁaʃ.tɛ/ |
rachetait /ʁaʃ.tɛ/ |
rachetions /ʁa.ʃə.tjɔ̃/ |
rachetiez /ʁa.ʃə.tje/ |
rachetaient /ʁaʃ.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | rachetai /ʁaʃ.te/ |
rachetas /ʁaʃ.ta/ |
racheta /ʁaʃ.ta/ |
rachetâmes /ʁaʃ.tam/ |
rachetâtes /ʁaʃ.tat/ |
rachetèrent /ʁaʃ.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | rachèterai /ʁa.ʃɛ.tʁe/ |
rachèteras /ʁa.ʃɛ.tʁa/ |
rachètera /ʁa.ʃɛ.tʁa/ |
rachèterons /ʁa.ʃɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
rachèterez /ʁa.ʃɛ.tʁe/ |
rachèteront /ʁa.ʃɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | rachèterais /ʁa.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ |
rachèterais /ʁa.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ |
rachèterait /ʁa.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ |
rachèterions /ʁa.ʃɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rachèteriez /ʁa.ʃɛ.tə.ʁje/ |
rachèteraient /ʁa.ʃɛ.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 | rachète /ʁa.ʃɛt/ |
rachètes /ʁa.ʃɛt/ |
rachète /ʁa.ʃɛt/ |
rachetions /ʁa.ʃə.tjɔ̃/ |
rachetiez /ʁa.ʃə.tje/ |
rachètent /ʁa.ʃɛt/ |
| imperfect1 |
rachetasse /ʁaʃ.tas/ |
rachetasses /ʁaʃ.tas/ |
rachetât /ʁaʃ.ta/ |
rachetassions /ʁaʃ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
rachetassiez /ʁaʃ.ta.sje/ |
rachetassent /ʁaʃ.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 | – | |
| — | rachète /ʁa.ʃɛt/ |
— | rachetons /ʁaʃ.tɔ̃/ |
rachetez /ʁaʃ.te/ |
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