battre

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French battre, from Old French batre, from Latin battere, from earlier battuere.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /batʁ/
  • Audio:(file)

Verb

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battre

  1. to beat; to defeat
  2. to beat up
  3. (pronominal) to fight
    • 2018, Zaz, Saint-Valentin:
      J’irai dans un bar ce soir. […] Je me battrai pour une place au comptoir.
      I'm going to a bar tonight. […] I will fight for a seat at the counter.
  4. (cooking) to whisk or whip (eggs)
  5. (agriculture) to thresh
  6. (card games) to shuffle

Conjugation

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This verb is conjugated like vendre, perdre, etc. (sometimes called the regular -re verbs), except that instead of *batt and *batts, it has the forms bat and bats. This is strictly a spelling change; pronunciation-wise, the verb is conjugated exactly like vendre.

Conjugation of battre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple battre
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple battant
/ba.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle battu
/ba.ty/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present bats
/ba/ 		bats
/ba/ 		bat
/ba/ 		battons
/ba.tɔ̃/ 		battez
/ba.te/ 		battent
/bat/
imperfect battais
/ba.tɛ/ 		battais
/ba.tɛ/ 		battait
/ba.tɛ/ 		battions
/ba.tjɔ̃/ 		battiez
/ba.tje/ 		battaient
/ba.tɛ/
past historic2 battis
/ba.ti/ 		battis
/ba.ti/ 		battit
/ba.ti/ 		battîmes
/ba.tim/ 		battîtes
/ba.tit/ 		battirent
/ba.tiʁ/
future battrai
/ba.tʁe/ 		battras
/ba.tʁa/ 		battra
/ba.tʁa/ 		battrons
/ba.tʁɔ̃/ 		battrez
/ba.tʁe/ 		battront
/ba.tʁɔ̃/
conditional battrais
/ba.tʁɛ/ 		battrais
/ba.tʁɛ/ 		battrait
/ba.tʁɛ/ 		battrions
/ba.tʁi.jɔ̃/ 		battriez
/ba.tʁi.je/ 		battraient
/ba.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 batte
/bat/ 		battes
/bat/ 		batte
/bat/ 		battions
/ba.tjɔ̃/ 		battiez
/ba.tje/ 		battent
/bat/
imperfect2 battisse
/ba.tis/ 		battisses
/ba.tis/ 		battît
/ba.ti/ 		battissions
/ba.ti.sjɔ̃/ 		battissiez
/ba.ti.sje/ 		battissent
/ba.tis/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — bats
/ba/ 		— battons
/ba.tɔ̃/ 		battez
/ba.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

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Further reading

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Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French batre.

Verb

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battre

  1. (reflexive, se battre) to fight; to engage in combat
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Descendants

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  • French: battre

Norman

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Etymology

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From Old French batre, from Latin battere, from earlier battuere.

Verb

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battre (gerund batt'tie)

  1. (Jersey) to beat
  2. (Jersey, reflexive, s'battre) to fight

Derived terms

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