reformater

French

Etymology

re- +‎ formater

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.te/

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Verb

reformater

1. (transitive, computing) to reformat

Conjugation

Conjugation of reformater (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	reformater
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	reformatant /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		reformaté /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	reformate /ʁə.fɔʁ.mat/	reformates /ʁə.fɔʁ.mat/	reformate /ʁə.fɔʁ.mat/	reformatons /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tɔ̃/	reformatez /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.te/	reformatent /ʁə.fɔʁ.mat/
	imperfect	reformatais /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tɛ/	reformatais /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tɛ/	reformatait /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tɛ/	reformations /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tjɔ̃/	reformatiez /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tje/	reformataient /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tɛ/
	past historic2	reformatai /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.te/	reformatas /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.ta/	reformata /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.ta/	reformatâmes /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tam/	reformatâtes /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tat/	reformatèrent /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tɛʁ/
	future	reformaterai /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tʁe/	reformateras /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tʁa/	reformatera /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tʁa/	reformaterons /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tʁɔ̃/	reformaterez /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tʁe/	reformateront /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	reformaterais /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tʁɛ/	reformaterais /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tʁɛ/	reformaterait /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tʁɛ/	reformaterions /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	reformateriez /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tə.ʁje/	reformateraient /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tʁɛ/
(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	reformate /ʁə.fɔʁ.mat/	reformates /ʁə.fɔʁ.mat/	reformate /ʁə.fɔʁ.mat/	reformations /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tjɔ̃/	reformatiez /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tje/	reformatent /ʁə.fɔʁ.mat/
	imperfect2	reformatasse /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tas/	reformatasses /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tas/	reformatât /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.ta/	reformatassions /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.ta.sjɔ̃/	reformatassiez /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.ta.sje/	reformatassent /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	reformate /ʁə.fɔʁ.mat/	—	reformatons /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.tɔ̃/	reformatez /ʁə.fɔʁ.ma.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).

Further reading

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