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
- 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume 1, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter XLVII:
- 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.
- Appelant à part l’hôtelier, ils lui ordonnèrent de seller Rossinante et de bâter le grison, ce qu’il fit avec diligence.
Conjugation
Conjugation of bâter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | bâter | avoir bâté | |||||
| gerund | en bâtant | en ayant bâté | |||||
| present participle | bâtant /bɑ.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | bâté /bɑ.te/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| 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 historic1 | 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 | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | bâte /bɑt/ |
bâtes /bɑt/ |
bâte /bɑt/ |
bâtions /bɑ.tjɔ̃/ |
bâtiez /bɑ.tje/ |
bâtent /bɑt/ |
| imperfect1 | bâtasse /bɑ.tas/ |
bâtasses /bɑ.tas/ |
bâtât /bɑ.ta/ |
bâtassions /bɑ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
bâtassiez /bɑ.ta.sje/ |
bâtassent /bɑ.tas/ | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | bâte /bɑt/ |
— | bâtons /bɑ.tɔ̃/ |
bâtez /bɑ.te/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “bâter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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