contacter

French

Etymology

From contact +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tak.te/

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Verb

contacter

1. to contact (all senses)

Conjugation

Conjugation of contacter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	contacter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	contactant /kɔ̃.tak.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		contacté /kɔ̃.tak.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	contacte /kɔ̃.takt/	contactes /kɔ̃.takt/	contacte /kɔ̃.takt/	contactons /kɔ̃.tak.tɔ̃/	contactez /kɔ̃.tak.te/	contactent /kɔ̃.takt/
	imperfect	contactais /kɔ̃.tak.tɛ/	contactais /kɔ̃.tak.tɛ/	contactait /kɔ̃.tak.tɛ/	contactions /kɔ̃.tak.tjɔ̃/	contactiez /kɔ̃.tak.tje/	contactaient /kɔ̃.tak.tɛ/
	past historic2	contactai /kɔ̃.tak.te/	contactas /kɔ̃.tak.ta/	contacta /kɔ̃.tak.ta/	contactâmes /kɔ̃.tak.tam/	contactâtes /kɔ̃.tak.tat/	contactèrent /kɔ̃.tak.tɛʁ/
	future	contacterai /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁe/	contacteras /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁa/	contactera /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁa/	contacterons /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁɔ̃/	contacterez /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁe/	contacteront /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	contacterais /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁɛ/	contacterais /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁɛ/	contacterait /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁɛ/	contacterions /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	contacteriez /kɔ̃.tak.tə.ʁje/	contacteraient /kɔ̃.tak.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	contacte /kɔ̃.takt/	contactes /kɔ̃.takt/	contacte /kɔ̃.takt/	contactions /kɔ̃.tak.tjɔ̃/	contactiez /kɔ̃.tak.tje/	contactent /kɔ̃.takt/
	imperfect2	contactasse /kɔ̃.tak.tas/	contactasses /kɔ̃.tak.tas/	contactât /kɔ̃.tak.ta/	contactassions /kɔ̃.tak.ta.sjɔ̃/	contactassiez /kɔ̃.tak.ta.sje/	contactassent /kɔ̃.tak.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	contacte /kɔ̃.takt/	—	contactons /kɔ̃.tak.tɔ̃/	contactez /kɔ̃.tak.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

• Haitian Creole: kontakte

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• contracte, contracté