rabattre
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
rabattre
- to make something lower
- to close, shut (down)
- to fold over (covers, curtains etc.)
- to turn down (a collar)
- to pull down (a skirt)
- to reduce, deduct, diminish
- to cut back (a plant, tree)
- (reflexive) to cut in
- (reflexive, followed by sur) to fall back on
- (reflexive) to (swing) shut
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like battre. That means it is conjugated like vendre, perdre, etc. (sometimes called the regular -re verbs), except that instead of *rabatt and *rabatts, it has the forms rabat and rabats. This is strictly a spelling change; pronunciation-wise, the verb is conjugated exactly like vendre.
Conjugation of rabattre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rabattre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rabattant /ʁa.ba.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rabattu /ʁa.ba.ty/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rabats /ʁa.ba/ |
rabats /ʁa.ba/ |
rabat /ʁa.ba/ |
rabattons /ʁa.ba.tɔ̃/ |
rabattez /ʁa.ba.te/ |
rabattent /ʁa.bat/ |
| imperfect | rabattais /ʁa.ba.tɛ/ |
rabattais /ʁa.ba.tɛ/ |
rabattait /ʁa.ba.tɛ/ |
rabattions /ʁa.ba.tjɔ̃/ |
rabattiez /ʁa.ba.tje/ |
rabattaient /ʁa.ba.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rabattis /ʁa.ba.ti/ |
rabattis /ʁa.ba.ti/ |
rabattit /ʁa.ba.ti/ |
rabattîmes /ʁa.ba.tim/ |
rabattîtes /ʁa.ba.tit/ |
rabattirent /ʁa.ba.tiʁ/ | |
| future | rabattrai /ʁa.ba.tʁe/ |
rabattras /ʁa.ba.tʁa/ |
rabattra /ʁa.ba.tʁa/ |
rabattrons /ʁa.ba.tʁɔ̃/ |
rabattrez /ʁa.ba.tʁe/ |
rabattront /ʁa.ba.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rabattrais /ʁa.ba.tʁɛ/ |
rabattrais /ʁa.ba.tʁɛ/ |
rabattrait /ʁa.ba.tʁɛ/ |
rabattrions /ʁa.ba.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
rabattriez /ʁa.ba.tʁi.je/ |
rabattraient /ʁa.ba.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 | rabatte /ʁa.bat/ |
rabattes /ʁa.bat/ |
rabatte /ʁa.bat/ |
rabattions /ʁa.ba.tjɔ̃/ |
rabattiez /ʁa.ba.tje/ |
rabattent /ʁa.bat/ |
| imperfect2 | rabattisse /ʁa.ba.tis/ |
rabattisses /ʁa.ba.tis/ |
rabattît /ʁa.ba.ti/ |
rabattissions /ʁa.ba.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
rabattissiez /ʁa.ba.ti.sje/ |
rabattissent /ʁa.ba.tis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rabats /ʁa.ba/ |
— | rabattons /ʁa.ba.tɔ̃/ |
rabattez /ʁa.ba.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). | |||||||
Descendants
- German: Rabatt
Further reading
- “rabattre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.