rétracter

See also: retracter

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin retractāre (“to undertake again; to withdraw, refuse, decline; to retract”), from Latin retractus (“withdrawn”), perfect passive participle of retrahō (“to draw or pull back, withdraw; to call back, remove”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁe.tʁak.te/

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Verb

rétracter

1. (transitive) to retract, contract

Conjugation

Conjugation of rétracter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rétracter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rétractant /ʁe.tʁak.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rétracté /ʁe.tʁak.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rétracte /ʁe.tʁakt/	rétractes /ʁe.tʁakt/	rétracte /ʁe.tʁakt/	rétractons /ʁe.tʁak.tɔ̃/	rétractez /ʁe.tʁak.te/	rétractent /ʁe.tʁakt/
	imperfect	rétractais /ʁe.tʁak.tɛ/	rétractais /ʁe.tʁak.tɛ/	rétractait /ʁe.tʁak.tɛ/	rétractions /ʁe.tʁak.tjɔ̃/	rétractiez /ʁe.tʁak.tje/	rétractaient /ʁe.tʁak.tɛ/
	past historic2	rétractai /ʁe.tʁak.te/	rétractas /ʁe.tʁak.ta/	rétracta /ʁe.tʁak.ta/	rétractâmes /ʁe.tʁak.tam/	rétractâtes /ʁe.tʁak.tat/	rétractèrent /ʁe.tʁak.tɛʁ/
	future	rétracterai /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁe/	rétracteras /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁa/	rétractera /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁa/	rétracterons /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁɔ̃/	rétracterez /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁe/	rétracteront /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rétracterais /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁɛ/	rétracterais /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁɛ/	rétracterait /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁɛ/	rétracterions /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	rétracteriez /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁje/	rétracteraient /ʁe.tʁak.tə.ʁɛ/
(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	rétracte /ʁe.tʁakt/	rétractes /ʁe.tʁakt/	rétracte /ʁe.tʁakt/	rétractions /ʁe.tʁak.tjɔ̃/	rétractiez /ʁe.tʁak.tje/	rétractent /ʁe.tʁakt/
	imperfect2	rétractasse /ʁe.tʁak.tas/	rétractasses /ʁe.tʁak.tas/	rétractât /ʁe.tʁak.ta/	rétractassions /ʁe.tʁak.ta.sjɔ̃/	rétractassiez /ʁe.tʁak.ta.sje/	rétractassent /ʁe.tʁak.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rétracte /ʁe.tʁakt/	—	rétractons /ʁe.tʁak.tɔ̃/	rétractez /ʁe.tʁak.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).

Related terms

• rétraction
• retraire

Further reading

• “rétracter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.