réfuter
See also: refuter
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁe.fy.te/
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Verb
réfuter
Conjugation
Conjugation of réfuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | réfuter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | réfutant /ʁe.fy.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | réfuté /ʁe.fy.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | réfute /ʁe.fyt/ |
réfutes /ʁe.fyt/ |
réfute /ʁe.fyt/ |
réfutons /ʁe.fy.tɔ̃/ |
réfutez /ʁe.fy.te/ |
réfutent /ʁe.fyt/ |
| imperfect | réfutais /ʁe.fy.tɛ/ |
réfutais /ʁe.fy.tɛ/ |
réfutait /ʁe.fy.tɛ/ |
réfutions /ʁe.fy.tjɔ̃/ |
réfutiez /ʁe.fy.tje/ |
réfutaient /ʁe.fy.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | réfutai /ʁe.fy.te/ |
réfutas /ʁe.fy.ta/ |
réfuta /ʁe.fy.ta/ |
réfutâmes /ʁe.fy.tam/ |
réfutâtes /ʁe.fy.tat/ |
réfutèrent /ʁe.fy.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | réfuterai /ʁe.fy.tʁe/ |
réfuteras /ʁe.fy.tʁa/ |
réfutera /ʁe.fy.tʁa/ |
réfuterons /ʁe.fy.tʁɔ̃/ |
réfuterez /ʁe.fy.tʁe/ |
réfuteront /ʁe.fy.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | réfuterais /ʁe.fy.tʁɛ/ |
réfuterais /ʁe.fy.tʁɛ/ |
réfuterait /ʁe.fy.tʁɛ/ |
réfuterions /ʁe.fy.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
réfuteriez /ʁe.fy.tə.ʁje/ |
réfuteraient /ʁe.fy.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 | réfute /ʁe.fyt/ |
réfutes /ʁe.fyt/ |
réfute /ʁe.fyt/ |
réfutions /ʁe.fy.tjɔ̃/ |
réfutiez /ʁe.fy.tje/ |
réfutent /ʁe.fyt/ |
| imperfect2 | réfutasse /ʁe.fy.tas/ |
réfutasses /ʁe.fy.tas/ |
réfutât /ʁe.fy.ta/ |
réfutassions /ʁe.fy.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
réfutassiez /ʁe.fy.ta.sje/ |
réfutassent /ʁe.fy.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | réfute /ʁe.fyt/ |
— | réfutons /ʁe.fy.tɔ̃/ |
réfutez /ʁe.fy.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
Further reading
- “réfuter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.