contresigner

French

Etymology

From contre- +‎ signer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲe/

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Verb

contresigner

1. (transitive) to countersign

Conjugation

Conjugation of contresigner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	contresigner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	contresignant /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		contresigné /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	contresigne /kɔ̃.tʁə.siɲ/	contresignes /kɔ̃.tʁə.siɲ/	contresigne /kɔ̃.tʁə.siɲ/	contresignons /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲɔ̃/	contresignez /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲe/	contresignent /kɔ̃.tʁə.siɲ/
	imperfect	contresignais /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲɛ/	contresignais /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲɛ/	contresignait /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲɛ/	contresignions /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲjɔ̃/	contresigniez /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲje/	contresignaient /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲɛ/
	past historic2	contresignai /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲe/	contresignas /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲa/	contresigna /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲa/	contresignâmes /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲam/	contresignâtes /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲat/	contresignèrent /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲɛʁ/
	future	contresignerai /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲə.ʁe/	contresigneras /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲə.ʁa/	contresignera /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲə.ʁa/	contresignerons /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/	contresignerez /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲə.ʁe/	contresigneront /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	contresignerais /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲə.ʁɛ/	contresignerais /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲə.ʁɛ/	contresignerait /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲə.ʁɛ/	contresignerions /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲə.ʁjɔ̃/	contresigneriez /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲə.ʁje/	contresigneraient /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲə.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	contresigne /kɔ̃.tʁə.siɲ/	contresignes /kɔ̃.tʁə.siɲ/	contresigne /kɔ̃.tʁə.siɲ/	contresignions /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲjɔ̃/	contresigniez /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲje/	contresignent /kɔ̃.tʁə.siɲ/
	imperfect2	contresignasse /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲas/	contresignasses /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲas/	contresignât /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲa/	contresignassions /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲa.sjɔ̃/	contresignassiez /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲa.sje/	contresignassent /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	contresigne /kɔ̃.tʁə.siɲ/	—	contresignons /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲɔ̃/	contresignez /kɔ̃.tʁə.si.ɲe/	—
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).

Further reading

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