bâter
French
FWOTD – 22 April 2014
Etymology
From Old French (and Middle French) baster.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.te/ ~ /bɑ.te/
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Verb
bâter
- (transitive) to put on a packsaddle
- 1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XLVII, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et Cie, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:
- Appelant à part l’hôtelier, ils lui ordonnèrent de seller Rossinante et de bâter le grison, ce qu’il fit avec diligence.
- Calling aside the innkeeper, they ordered him to saddle Rossinante and to put a packsaddle on the donkey, which he did with diligence.
Conjugation
Conjugation of bâter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | bâter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | bâtant /ba.tɑ̃/ or /bɑ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | bâté /ba.te/ or /bɑ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | bâte /bat/ or /bɑt/ |
bâtes /bat/ or /bɑt/ |
bâte /bat/ or /bɑt/ |
bâtons /ba.tɔ̃/ or /bɑ.tɔ̃/ |
bâtez /ba.te/ or /bɑ.te/ |
bâtent /bat/ or /bɑt/ |
| imperfect | bâtais /ba.tɛ/ or /bɑ.tɛ/ |
bâtais /ba.tɛ/ or /bɑ.tɛ/ |
bâtait /ba.tɛ/ or /bɑ.tɛ/ |
bâtions /ba.tjɔ̃/ or /bɑ.tjɔ̃/ |
bâtiez /ba.tje/ or /bɑ.tje/ |
bâtaient /ba.tɛ/ or /bɑ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | bâtai /ba.te/ or /bɑ.te/ |
bâtas /ba.ta/ or /bɑ.ta/ |
bâta /ba.ta/ or /bɑ.ta/ |
bâtâmes /ba.tam/ or /bɑ.tam/ |
bâtâtes /ba.tat/ or /bɑ.tat/ |
bâtèrent /ba.tɛʁ/ or /bɑ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | bâterai /ba.tʁe/ or /bɑ.tʁe/ |
bâteras /ba.tʁa/ or /bɑ.tʁa/ |
bâtera /ba.tʁa/ or /bɑ.tʁa/ |
bâterons /ba.tʁɔ̃/ or /bɑ.tʁɔ̃/ |
bâterez /ba.tʁe/ or /bɑ.tʁe/ |
bâteront /ba.tʁɔ̃/ or /bɑ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | bâterais /ba.tʁɛ/ or /bɑ.tʁɛ/ |
bâterais /ba.tʁɛ/ or /bɑ.tʁɛ/ |
bâterait /ba.tʁɛ/ or /bɑ.tʁɛ/ |
bâterions /ba.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /bɑ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
bâteriez /ba.tə.ʁje/ or /bɑ.tə.ʁje/ |
bâteraient /ba.tʁɛ/ or /bɑ.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 | bâte /bat/ or /bɑt/ |
bâtes /bat/ or /bɑt/ |
bâte /bat/ or /bɑt/ |
bâtions /ba.tjɔ̃/ or /bɑ.tjɔ̃/ |
bâtiez /ba.tje/ or /bɑ.tje/ |
bâtent /bat/ or /bɑt/ |
| imperfect2 | bâtasse /ba.tas/ or /bɑ.tas/ |
bâtasses /ba.tas/ or /bɑ.tas/ |
bâtât /ba.ta/ or /bɑ.ta/ |
bâtassions /ba.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /bɑ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
bâtassiez /ba.ta.sje/ or /bɑ.ta.sje/ |
bâtassent /ba.tas/ or /bɑ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | bâte /bat/ or /bɑt/ |
— | bâtons /ba.tɔ̃/ or /bɑ.tɔ̃/ |
bâtez /ba.te/ or /bɑ.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “bâter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.