rétracter
See also: retracter
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin retractāre, present active infinitive of retractō (“I undertake again; I withdraw, refuse, decline; I retract”), from Latin retractus (“withdrawn”), perfect passive participle of retrahō (“I draw or pull back, withdraw; I call back, remove”).
Pronunciation
Verb
rétracter
- (transitive) to retract, contract
Conjugation
Conjugation of rétracter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rétracter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rétractant /ʁe.tʁak.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rétracté /ʁe.tʁak.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rétracte /ʁe.tʁakt/ |
rétractes /ʁe.tʁakt/ |
rétracte /ʁe.tʁakt/ |
rétractons /ʁe.tʁak.tɔ̃/ |
rétractez /ʁe.tʁak.te/ |
rétractent /ʁe.tʁakt/ |
| imperfect | rétractais /ʁe.tʁak.tɛ/ |
rétractais /ʁe.tʁak.tɛ/ |
rétractait /ʁe.tʁak.tɛ/ |
rétractions /ʁe.tʁak.tjɔ̃/ |
rétractiez /ʁe.tʁak.tje/ |
rétractaient /ʁe.tʁak.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rétractai /ʁe.tʁak.te/ |
rétractas /ʁe.tʁak.ta/ |
rétracta /ʁe.tʁak.ta/ |
rétractâmes /ʁe.tʁak.tam/ |
rétractâtes /ʁe.tʁak.tat/ |
rétractèrent /ʁe.tʁak.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | rétracterai /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁe/ |
rétracteras /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁa/ |
rétractera /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁa/ |
rétracterons /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
rétracterez /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁe/ |
rétracteront /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rétracterais /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁɛ/ |
rétracterais /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁɛ/ |
rétracterait /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁɛ/ |
rétracterions /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rétracteriez /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁje/ |
rétracteraient /ʁe.tʁak.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 | rétracte /ʁe.tʁakt/ |
rétractes /ʁe.tʁakt/ |
rétracte /ʁe.tʁakt/ |
rétractions /ʁe.tʁak.tjɔ̃/ |
rétractiez /ʁe.tʁak.tje/ |
rétractent /ʁe.tʁakt/ |
| imperfect2 | rétractasse /ʁe.tʁak.tas/ |
rétractasses /ʁe.tʁak.tas/ |
rétractât /ʁe.tʁak.ta/ |
rétractassions /ʁe.tʁak.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
rétractassiez /ʁe.tʁak.ta.sje/ |
rétractassent /ʁe.tʁak.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rétracte /ʁe.tʁakt/ |
— | rétractons /ʁe.tʁak.tɔ̃/ |
rétractez /ʁe.tʁak.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). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “rétracter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.