contraster

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tʁas.te/
• Rhymes: -e

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Verb

contraster

1. to contrast

Conjugation

Conjugation of contraster (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	contraster
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	contrastant /kɔ̃.tʁas.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		contrasté /kɔ̃.tʁas.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	contraste /kɔ̃.tʁast/	contrastes /kɔ̃.tʁast/	contraste /kɔ̃.tʁast/	contrastons /kɔ̃.tʁas.tɔ̃/	contrastez /kɔ̃.tʁas.te/	contrastent /kɔ̃.tʁast/
	imperfect	contrastais /kɔ̃.tʁas.tɛ/	contrastais /kɔ̃.tʁas.tɛ/	contrastait /kɔ̃.tʁas.tɛ/	contrastions /kɔ̃.tʁas.tjɔ̃/	contrastiez /kɔ̃.tʁas.tje/	contrastaient /kɔ̃.tʁas.tɛ/
	past historic2	contrastai /kɔ̃.tʁas.te/	contrastas /kɔ̃.tʁas.ta/	contrasta /kɔ̃.tʁas.ta/	contrastâmes /kɔ̃.tʁas.tam/	contrastâtes /kɔ̃.tʁas.tat/	contrastèrent /kɔ̃.tʁas.tɛʁ/
	future	contrasterai /kɔ̃.tʁas.tə.ʁe/	contrasteras /kɔ̃.tʁas.tə.ʁa/	contrastera /kɔ̃.tʁas.tə.ʁa/	contrasterons /kɔ̃.tʁas.tə.ʁɔ̃/	contrasterez /kɔ̃.tʁas.tə.ʁe/	contrasteront /kɔ̃.tʁas.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	contrasterais /kɔ̃.tʁas.tə.ʁɛ/	contrasterais /kɔ̃.tʁas.tə.ʁɛ/	contrasterait /kɔ̃.tʁas.tə.ʁɛ/	contrasterions /kɔ̃.tʁas.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	contrasteriez /kɔ̃.tʁas.tə.ʁje/	contrasteraient /kɔ̃.tʁas.tə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	contraste /kɔ̃.tʁast/	contrastes /kɔ̃.tʁast/	contraste /kɔ̃.tʁast/	contrastions /kɔ̃.tʁas.tjɔ̃/	contrastiez /kɔ̃.tʁas.tje/	contrastent /kɔ̃.tʁast/
	imperfect2	contrastasse /kɔ̃.tʁas.tas/	contrastasses /kɔ̃.tʁas.tas/	contrastât /kɔ̃.tʁas.ta/	contrastassions /kɔ̃.tʁas.ta.sjɔ̃/	contrastassiez /kɔ̃.tʁas.ta.sje/	contrastassent /kɔ̃.tʁas.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	contraste /kɔ̃.tʁast/	—	contrastons /kɔ̃.tʁas.tɔ̃/	contrastez /kɔ̃.tʁas.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Descendants

• → Polish: kontrastować

Further reading

• “contraster”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• castreront, rétractons, tracterons