bâter
French
FWOTD – 22 April 2014
Etymology
From Old French (and Middle French) baster.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɑte/
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 763899327:
- 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.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of bâter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | bâtant /bɑ.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | bâté /bɑ.te/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | bâter | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | bâtant /bɑ.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | bâte /bɑt/ |
bâtes /bɑt/ |
bâte /bɑt/ |
bâtons /bɑ.tɔ̃/ |
bâtez /bɑ.te/ |
bâtent /bɑt/ |
| imperfect | bâtais /bɑ.tɛ/ |
bâtais /bɑ.tɛ/ |
bâtait /bɑ.tɛ/ |
bâtions /bɑ.tjɔ̃/ |
bâtiez /bɑ.tje/ |
bâtaient /bɑ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | bâtai /bɑ.te/ |
bâtas /bɑ.ta/ |
bâta /bɑ.ta/ |
bâtâmes /bɑ.tam/ |
bâtâtes /bɑ.tat/ |
bâtèrent /bɑ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | bâterai /bɑ.tʁe/ |
bâteras /bɑ.tʁa/ |
bâtera /bɑ.tʁa/ |
bâterons /bɑ.tʁɔ̃/ |
bâterez /bɑ.tʁe/ |
bâteront /bɑ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | bâterais /bɑ.tʁɛ/ |
bâterais /bɑ.tʁɛ/ |
bâterait /bɑ.tʁɛ/ |
bâterions /bɑ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
bâteriez /bɑ.tə.ʁje/ |
bâteraient /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 /bɑt/ |
bâtes /bɑt/ |
bâte /bɑt/ |
bâtions /bɑ.tjɔ̃/ |
bâtiez /bɑ.tje/ |
bâtent /bɑt/ |
| imperfect2 | bâtasse /bɑ.tas/ |
bâtasses /bɑ.tas/ |
bâtât /bɑ.ta/ |
bâtassions /bɑ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
bâtassiez /bɑ.ta.sje/ |
bâtassent /bɑ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | bâte /bɑt/ |
— | bâtons /bɑ.tɔ̃/ |
bâtez /bɑ.te/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “bâter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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