contaminer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin contāmināre. Compare entamer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.ta.mi.ne/

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Verb

contaminer

1. to contaminate

Conjugation

Conjugation of contaminer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	contaminer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	contaminant /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		contaminé /kɔ̃.ta.mi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	contamine /kɔ̃.ta.min/	contamines /kɔ̃.ta.min/	contamine /kɔ̃.ta.min/	contaminons /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɔ̃/	contaminez /kɔ̃.ta.mi.ne/	contaminent /kɔ̃.ta.min/
	imperfect	contaminais /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɛ/	contaminais /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɛ/	contaminait /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɛ/	contaminions /kɔ̃.ta.mi.njɔ̃/	contaminiez /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nje/	contaminaient /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɛ/
	past historic2	contaminai /kɔ̃.ta.mi.ne/	contaminas /kɔ̃.ta.mi.na/	contamina /kɔ̃.ta.mi.na/	contaminâmes /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nam/	contaminâtes /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nat/	contaminèrent /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɛʁ/
	future	contaminerai /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁe/	contamineras /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁa/	contaminera /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁa/	contaminerons /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁɔ̃/	contaminerez /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁe/	contamineront /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	contaminerais /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁɛ/	contaminerais /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁɛ/	contaminerait /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁɛ/	contaminerions /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	contamineriez /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nə.ʁje/	contamineraient /kɔ̃.ta.min.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	contamine /kɔ̃.ta.min/	contamines /kɔ̃.ta.min/	contamine /kɔ̃.ta.min/	contaminions /kɔ̃.ta.mi.njɔ̃/	contaminiez /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nje/	contaminent /kɔ̃.ta.min/
	imperfect2	contaminasse /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nas/	contaminasses /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nas/	contaminât /kɔ̃.ta.mi.na/	contaminassions /kɔ̃.ta.mi.na.sjɔ̃/	contaminassiez /kɔ̃.ta.mi.na.sje/	contaminassent /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	contamine /kɔ̃.ta.min/	—	contaminons /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɔ̃/	contaminez /kɔ̃.ta.mi.ne/	—
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).

Derived terms

• contamination

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: kontamine

References

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

Latin

Verb

contāminer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of contāminō