contaminer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin contāmināre. Compare entamer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.ta.mi.ne/
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Verb
contaminer
- to contaminate
Conjugation
Conjugation of contaminer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | contaminer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | contaminant /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | contaminé /kɔ̃.ta.mi.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | contamine /kɔ̃.ta.min/ |
contamines /kɔ̃.ta.min/ |
contamine /kɔ̃.ta.min/ |
contaminons /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɔ̃/ |
contaminez /kɔ̃.ta.mi.ne/ |
contaminent /kɔ̃.ta.min/ |
| imperfect | contaminais /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɛ/ |
contaminais /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɛ/ |
contaminait /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɛ/ |
contaminions /kɔ̃.ta.mi.njɔ̃/ |
contaminiez /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nje/ |
contaminaient /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | contaminai /kɔ̃.ta.mi.ne/ |
contaminas /kɔ̃.ta.mi.na/ |
contamina /kɔ̃.ta.mi.na/ |
contaminâmes /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nam/ |
contaminâtes /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nat/ |
contaminèrent /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | contaminerai /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁe/ |
contamineras /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁa/ |
contaminera /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁa/ |
contaminerons /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁɔ̃/ |
contaminerez /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁe/ |
contamineront /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | contaminerais /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁɛ/ |
contaminerais /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁɛ/ |
contaminerait /kɔ̃.ta.min.ʁɛ/ |
contaminerions /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
contamineriez /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nə.ʁje/ |
contamineraient /kɔ̃.ta.min.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 | contamine /kɔ̃.ta.min/ |
contamines /kɔ̃.ta.min/ |
contamine /kɔ̃.ta.min/ |
contaminions /kɔ̃.ta.mi.njɔ̃/ |
contaminiez /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nje/ |
contaminent /kɔ̃.ta.min/ |
| imperfect2 | contaminasse /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nas/ |
contaminasses /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nas/ |
contaminât /kɔ̃.ta.mi.na/ |
contaminassions /kɔ̃.ta.mi.na.sjɔ̃/ |
contaminassiez /kɔ̃.ta.mi.na.sje/ |
contaminassent /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | contamine /kɔ̃.ta.min/ |
— | contaminons /kɔ̃.ta.mi.nɔ̃/ |
contaminez /kɔ̃.ta.mi.ne/ |
— | |
| 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
References
- “contaminer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
contāminer
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of contāminō