ballaster
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.las.te/
- Rhymes: -e
- Homophones: ballastai, ballasté, ballastée, ballastées, ballastés, ballastez
Verb
ballaster
- to ballast
Conjugation
Conjugation of ballaster (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | ballaster | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | ballastant /ba.las.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | ballasté /ba.las.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | ballaste /ba.last/ |
ballastes /ba.last/ |
ballaste /ba.last/ |
ballastons /ba.las.tɔ̃/ |
ballastez /ba.las.te/ |
ballastent /ba.last/ |
| imperfect | ballastais /ba.las.tɛ/ |
ballastais /ba.las.tɛ/ |
ballastait /ba.las.tɛ/ |
ballastions /ba.las.tjɔ̃/ |
ballastiez /ba.las.tje/ |
ballastaient /ba.las.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | ballastai /ba.las.te/ |
ballastas /ba.las.ta/ |
ballasta /ba.las.ta/ |
ballastâmes /ba.las.tam/ |
ballastâtes /ba.las.tat/ |
ballastèrent /ba.las.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | ballasterai /ba.las.tə.ʁe/ |
ballasteras /ba.las.tə.ʁa/ |
ballastera /ba.las.tə.ʁa/ |
ballasterons /ba.las.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
ballasterez /ba.las.tə.ʁe/ |
ballasteront /ba.las.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | ballasterais /ba.las.tə.ʁɛ/ |
ballasterais /ba.las.tə.ʁɛ/ |
ballasterait /ba.las.tə.ʁɛ/ |
ballasterions /ba.las.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
ballasteriez /ba.las.tə.ʁje/ |
ballasteraient /ba.las.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 | ballaste /ba.last/ |
ballastes /ba.last/ |
ballaste /ba.last/ |
ballastions /ba.las.tjɔ̃/ |
ballastiez /ba.las.tje/ |
ballastent /ba.last/ |
| imperfect2 | ballastasse /ba.las.tas/ |
ballastasses /ba.las.tas/ |
ballastât /ba.las.ta/ |
ballastassions /ba.las.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
ballastassiez /ba.las.ta.sje/ |
ballastassent /ba.las.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | ballaste /ba.last/ |
— | ballastons /ba.las.tɔ̃/ |
ballastez /ba.las.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “ballaster”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.