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rebattre
rebattre
French
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)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | rebattre | avoir rebattu | |||||
| gerund | en rebattant | en ayant rebattu | |||||
| present participle | rebattant /ʁə.ba.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | rebattu /ʁə.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 | 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/ |
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| past historic1 | rebattis /ʁə.ba.ti/ |
rebattis /ʁə.ba.ti/ |
rebattit /ʁə.ba.ti/ |
rebattîmes /ʁə.ba.tim/ |
rebattîtes /ʁə.ba.tit/ |
rebattirent /ʁə.ba.tiʁ/ |
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| 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/ |
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| 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/ |
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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 | rebatte /ʁə.bat/ |
rebattes /ʁə.bat/ |
rebatte /ʁə.bat/ |
rebattions /ʁə.ba.tjɔ̃/ |
rebattiez /ʁə.ba.tje/ |
rebattent /ʁə.bat/ |
| imperfect1 |
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/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | rebats /ʁə.ba/ |
— | rebattons /ʁə.ba.tɔ̃/ |
rebattez /ʁə.ba.te/ |
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Derived terms
- rebattre les oreilles