remâter

French

Etymology

From re- +‎ mâter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.ma.te/, /ʁə.mɑ.te/

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Verb

remâter

1. (transitive, nautical) to remast
   • 1793, W. Hunter, C. Wolf, A. Eschelskroon, Description du Pégu et de l'isle de Ceylan‎^[1], page 31:

     Le vaisseau que je montois ayant été totalement désemparé, il fallut entrer dans la rivière de Syriam pour le remâter.

     The ship that I boarded having been totally disabled, it was necessary to enter the Syriam river to remast it.

   • 1929, Marcel Prévost, Joseph Bédier, Raymond Recouly, La Revue de France‎^[2], page 376:

     Il remâtera ses vaisseaux avec les mâtures des frégates, ses frégates avec les mâtures des transports, et ceux-ci, à leur tour, avec des agrès de fortune.

     He will remast his ships with the masts of the frigates, his frigates with the masts of the transporters, and these, in turn, with makeshift gear.

   • 2006, Robert Solé, Le grand voyage de l'obélisque‎^[3], →ISBN, page 120:

     En trente-six heures, le navire est remâté, regréé et déchargé de tout poids inutile.

     In thirty-six hours, the ship is remasted, rerigged and unloaded of any unnecessary weight.

Conjugation

Conjugation of remâter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	remâter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	remâtant /ʁə.ma.tɑ̃/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		remâté /ʁə.ma.te/ or /ʁə.mɑ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	remâte /ʁə.mat/ or /ʁə.mɑt/	remâtes /ʁə.mat/ or /ʁə.mɑt/	remâte /ʁə.mat/ or /ʁə.mɑt/	remâtons /ʁə.ma.tɔ̃/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tɔ̃/	remâtez /ʁə.ma.te/ or /ʁə.mɑ.te/	remâtent /ʁə.mat/ or /ʁə.mɑt/
	imperfect	remâtais /ʁə.ma.tɛ/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tɛ/	remâtais /ʁə.ma.tɛ/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tɛ/	remâtait /ʁə.ma.tɛ/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tɛ/	remâtions /ʁə.ma.tjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tjɔ̃/	remâtiez /ʁə.ma.tje/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tje/	remâtaient /ʁə.ma.tɛ/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tɛ/
	past historic2	remâtai /ʁə.ma.te/ or /ʁə.mɑ.te/	remâtas /ʁə.ma.ta/ or /ʁə.mɑ.ta/	remâta /ʁə.ma.ta/ or /ʁə.mɑ.ta/	remâtâmes /ʁə.ma.tam/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tam/	remâtâtes /ʁə.ma.tat/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tat/	remâtèrent /ʁə.ma.tɛʁ/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tɛʁ/
	future	remâterai /ʁə.ma.tʁe/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tʁe/	remâteras /ʁə.ma.tʁa/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tʁa/	remâtera /ʁə.ma.tʁa/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tʁa/	remâterons /ʁə.ma.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tʁɔ̃/	remâterez /ʁə.ma.tʁe/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tʁe/	remâteront /ʁə.ma.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	remâterais /ʁə.ma.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tʁɛ/	remâterais /ʁə.ma.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tʁɛ/	remâterait /ʁə.ma.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tʁɛ/	remâterions /ʁə.ma.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	remâteriez /ʁə.ma.tə.ʁje/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tə.ʁje/	remâteraient /ʁə.ma.tʁɛ/ or /ʁə.mɑ.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	remâte /ʁə.mat/ or /ʁə.mɑt/	remâtes /ʁə.mat/ or /ʁə.mɑt/	remâte /ʁə.mat/ or /ʁə.mɑt/	remâtions /ʁə.ma.tjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tjɔ̃/	remâtiez /ʁə.ma.tje/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tje/	remâtent /ʁə.mat/ or /ʁə.mɑt/
	imperfect2	remâtasse /ʁə.ma.tas/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tas/	remâtasses /ʁə.ma.tas/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tas/	remâtât /ʁə.ma.ta/ or /ʁə.mɑ.ta/	remâtassions /ʁə.ma.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁə.mɑ.ta.sjɔ̃/	remâtassiez /ʁə.ma.ta.sje/ or /ʁə.mɑ.ta.sje/	remâtassent /ʁə.ma.tas/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	remâte /ʁə.mat/ or /ʁə.mɑt/	—	remâtons /ʁə.ma.tɔ̃/ or /ʁə.mɑ.tɔ̃/	remâtez /ʁə.ma.te/ or /ʁə.mɑ.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).

Derived terms

• remâtage
• remâtement

Further reading

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