contingenter

French

Etymology

From contingent +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.te/

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Verb

contingenter

1. (transitive) to apply a quota to
2. (transitive) to brake

Conjugation

Conjugation of contingenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	contingenter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	contingentant /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		contingenté /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	contingente /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃t/	contingentes /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃t/	contingente /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃t/	contingentons /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tɔ̃/	contingentez /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.te/	contingentent /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃t/
	imperfect	contingentais /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tɛ/	contingentais /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tɛ/	contingentait /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tɛ/	contingentions /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	contingentiez /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tje/	contingentaient /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	contingentai /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.te/	contingentas /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.ta/	contingenta /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.ta/	contingentâmes /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tam/	contingentâtes /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tat/	contingentèrent /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	contingenterai /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tʁe/	contingenteras /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tʁa/	contingentera /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tʁa/	contingenterons /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	contingenterez /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tʁe/	contingenteront /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	contingenterais /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tʁɛ/	contingenterais /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tʁɛ/	contingenterait /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tʁɛ/	contingenterions /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	contingenteriez /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	contingenteraient /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.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	contingente /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃t/	contingentes /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃t/	contingente /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃t/	contingentions /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	contingentiez /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tje/	contingentent /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	contingentasse /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tas/	contingentasses /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tas/	contingentât /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.ta/	contingentassions /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	contingentassiez /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.ta.sje/	contingentassent /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	contingente /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃t/	—	contingentons /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.tɔ̃/	contingentez /kɔ̃.tɛ̃.ʒɑ̃.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

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