retraiter

French

Etymology

re- +‎ traiter

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.tʁɛ.te/ ~ /ʁə.tʁe.te/

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Verb

retraiter

1. (transitive) to reprocess
2. (transitive) to recycle
3. (sports) to retire (from a game)

   Il a retraité au vestiaire pendant la troisième période.

   He retired to the locker room during the third period.

Conjugation

Conjugation of retraiter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	retraiter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	retraitant /ʁə.tʁɛ.tɑ̃/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		retraité /ʁə.tʁɛ.te/ or /ʁə.tʁe.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	retraite /ʁə.tʁɛt/	retraites /ʁə.tʁɛt/	retraite /ʁə.tʁɛt/	retraitons /ʁə.tʁɛ.tɔ̃/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tɔ̃/	retraitez /ʁə.tʁɛ.te/ or /ʁə.tʁe.te/	retraitent /ʁə.tʁɛt/
	imperfect	retraitais /ʁə.tʁɛ.tɛ/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tɛ/	retraitais /ʁə.tʁɛ.tɛ/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tɛ/	retraitait /ʁə.tʁɛ.tɛ/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tɛ/	retraitions /ʁə.tʁɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tjɔ̃/	retraitiez /ʁə.tʁɛ.tje/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tje/	retraitaient /ʁə.tʁɛ.tɛ/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tɛ/
	past historic2	retraitai /ʁə.tʁɛ.te/ or /ʁə.tʁe.te/	retraitas /ʁə.tʁɛ.ta/ or /ʁə.tʁe.ta/	retraita /ʁə.tʁɛ.ta/ or /ʁə.tʁe.ta/	retraitâmes /ʁə.tʁɛ.tam/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tam/	retraitâtes /ʁə.tʁɛ.tat/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tat/	retraitèrent /ʁə.tʁɛ.tɛʁ/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tɛʁ/
	future	retraiterai /ʁə.tʁɛ.tʁe/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tʁe/	retraiteras /ʁə.tʁɛ.tʁa/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tʁa/	retraitera /ʁə.tʁɛ.tʁa/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tʁa/	retraiterons /ʁə.tʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tʁɔ̃/	retraiterez /ʁə.tʁɛ.tʁe/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tʁe/	retraiteront /ʁə.tʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	retraiterais /ʁə.tʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tʁɛ/	retraiterais /ʁə.tʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tʁɛ/	retraiterait /ʁə.tʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tʁɛ/	retraiterions /ʁə.tʁɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	retraiteriez /ʁə.tʁɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tə.ʁje/	retraiteraient /ʁə.tʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.tʁe.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	retraite /ʁə.tʁɛt/	retraites /ʁə.tʁɛt/	retraite /ʁə.tʁɛt/	retraitions /ʁə.tʁɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tjɔ̃/	retraitiez /ʁə.tʁɛ.tje/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tje/	retraitent /ʁə.tʁɛt/
	imperfect2	retraitasse /ʁə.tʁɛ.tas/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tas/	retraitasses /ʁə.tʁɛ.tas/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tas/	retraitât /ʁə.tʁɛ.ta/ or /ʁə.tʁe.ta/	retraitassions /ʁə.tʁɛ.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.tʁe.ta.sjɔ̃/	retraitassiez /ʁə.tʁɛ.ta.sje/ or /ʁə.tʁe.ta.sje/	retraitassent /ʁə.tʁɛ.tas/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	retraite /ʁə.tʁɛt/	—	retraitons /ʁə.tʁɛ.tɔ̃/ or /ʁə.tʁe.tɔ̃/	retraitez /ʁə.tʁɛ.te/ or /ʁə.tʁe.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

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