contondre

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin contundere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tɔ̃dʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃dʁ

Verb

contondre

1. (archaic) to hit; to give blows
2. (medicine) to produce contusions; bruise
3. (pharmacy) to grind with a mortar

Conjugation

Conjugation of contondre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	contondre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	contondant /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		contondu /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dy/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	contonds /kɔ̃.tɔ̃/	contonds /kɔ̃.tɔ̃/	contond /kɔ̃.tɔ̃/	contondons /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dɔ̃/	contondez /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.de/	contondent /kɔ̃.tɔ̃d/
	imperfect	contondais /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dɛ/	contondais /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dɛ/	contondait /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dɛ/	contondions /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.djɔ̃/	contondiez /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dje/	contondaient /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dɛ/
	past historic2	contondis /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.di/	contondis /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.di/	contondit /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.di/	contondîmes /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dim/	contondîtes /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dit/	contondirent /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.diʁ/
	future	contondrai /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dʁe/	contondras /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dʁa/	contondra /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dʁa/	contondrons /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dʁɔ̃/	contondrez /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dʁe/	contondront /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	contondrais /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dʁɛ/	contondrais /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dʁɛ/	contondrait /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dʁɛ/	contondrions /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	contondriez /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dʁi.je/	contondraient /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dʁɛ/
(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	contonde /kɔ̃.tɔ̃d/	contondes /kɔ̃.tɔ̃d/	contonde /kɔ̃.tɔ̃d/	contondions /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.djɔ̃/	contondiez /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dje/	contondent /kɔ̃.tɔ̃d/
	imperfect2	contondisse /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dis/	contondisses /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dis/	contondît /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.di/	contondissions /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.di.sjɔ̃/	contondissiez /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.di.sje/	contondissent /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	contonds /kɔ̃.tɔ̃/	—	contondons /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.dɔ̃/	contondez /kɔ̃.tɔ̃.de/	—
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

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