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Definition 2024

contracter

French

Verb

contracter

(transitive) To engage via a formal or informal contract; to contract.
(transitive) To contract a disease; to develop or acquire a bad habit.
(transitive) To reduce the volume or size.
(reflexive) To reduce its own size.

Conjugation

Conjugation of contracter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		contracter			avoir contracté
gerund		en contractant			en ayant contracté
present participle		contractant /kɔ̃.tʁak.tɑ̃/
past participle		contracté /kɔ̃.tʁak.te/
person		singular			plural
person		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	contracte /kɔ̃.tʁakt/	contractes /kɔ̃.tʁakt/	contracte /kɔ̃.tʁakt/	contractons /kɔ̃.tʁak.tɔ̃/	contractez /kɔ̃.tʁak.te/	contractent /kɔ̃.tʁakt/
	imperfect	contractais /kɔ̃.tʁak.tɛ/	contractais /kɔ̃.tʁak.tɛ/	contractait /kɔ̃.tʁak.tɛ/	contractions /kɔ̃.tʁak.tjɔ̃/	contractiez /kɔ̃.tʁak.tje/	contractaient /kɔ̃.tʁak.tɛ/
	past historic¹	contractai /kɔ̃.tʁak.te/	contractas /kɔ̃.tʁak.ta/	contracta /kɔ̃.tʁak.ta/	contractâmes /kɔ̃.tʁak.tam/	contractâtes /kɔ̃.tʁak.tat/	contractèrent /kɔ̃.tʁak.tɛʁ/
	future	contracterai /kɔ̃.tʁak.tə.ʁe/	contracteras /kɔ̃.tʁak.tə.ʁa/	contractera /kɔ̃.tʁak.tə.ʁa/	contracterons /kɔ̃.tʁak.tə.ʁɔ̃/	contracterez /kɔ̃.tʁak.tə.ʁe/	contracteront /kɔ̃.tʁak.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	contracterais /kɔ̃.tʁak.tə.ʁɛ/	contracterais /kɔ̃.tʁak.tə.ʁɛ/	contracterait /kɔ̃.tʁak.tə.ʁɛ/	contracterions /kɔ̃.tʁak.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	contracteriez /kɔ̃.tʁak.tə.ʁje/	contracteraient /kɔ̃.tʁak.tə.ʁɛ/
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	contracte /kɔ̃.tʁakt/	contractes /kɔ̃.tʁakt/	contracte /kɔ̃.tʁakt/	contractions /kɔ̃.tʁak.tjɔ̃/	contractiez /kɔ̃.tʁak.tje/	contractent /kɔ̃.tʁakt/
simple tenses	imperfect¹	contractasse /kɔ̃.tʁak.tas/	contractasses /kɔ̃.tʁak.tas/	contractât /kɔ̃.tʁak.ta/	contractassions /kɔ̃.tʁak.ta.sjɔ̃/	contractassiez /kɔ̃.tʁak.ta.sje/	contractassent /kɔ̃.tʁak.tas/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
compound tenses	pluperfect¹	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
imperative		—	contracte /kɔ̃.tʁakt/	—	contractons /kɔ̃.tʁak.tɔ̃/	contractez /kɔ̃.tʁak.te/	—
¹literary tenses

Usage notes

The volume-related meanings of contract are usually translated with rétracter or recroqueviller, which may refer to pull away or back, whereas contracter is much more global.