The French for retract is the verb rétracter

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French for retract is the regular ER verb rétracter, shown here in all its tenses and conjugations that are used in contemporary French.

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The 6 Simple Tenses of the conjugated verb rétracter - French for retract

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Here you’ll learn the conjugations of rétracter, which is French for retract.

• I retract.
• you retracted.
• he will retract.
• we would retract.
• they may retract.

The Verb Conjugation Tables below for rétracter, let you to practise your French verb drills both by PRONOUN (vertically), and by TENSE (horizontally). Do these two sequences lots of times over.

VERB CONJUGATION TABLE rétracter
Simple Tenses rétracter
TENSE	je/j’	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
Present Présent retract	rétracte	rétractes	rétracte	rétractons	rétractez	rétractent
Past Imperfect Imparfait retracted	rétractais	rétractais	rétractait	rétractions	rétractiez	rétractaient
Simple Past Passé Simple retracted	rétractai	rétractas	rétracta	rétractâmes	rétractâtes	rétractèrent
Future Futur will retract	rétracterai	rétracteras	rétractera	rétracterons	rétracterez	rétracteront
Conditional Conditionnel would retract	rétracterais	rétracterais	rétracterait	rétracterions	rétracteriez	rétracteraient
Subjunctive Subjonctif may retract	rétracte	rétractes	rétracte	rétractions	rétractiez	rétractent
Compound Tenses rétracter
Present Perfect Passé Composé have retracted	ai rétracté	as rétracté	a rétracté	avons rétracté	avez rétracté	ont rétracté
Past Perfect Plus-que-Parfait had retracted	avais rétracté	avais rétracté	avait rétracté	avions rétracté	aviez rétracté	avaient rétracté
Future Perfect Futur Antérieur will have	aurai rétracté	auras rétracté	aura rétracté	aurons rétracté	aurez rétracté	auront rétracté
Conditional Perfect Conditionnel Passé would have retracted	aurais rétracté	aurais rétracté	aurait rétracté	aurions rétracté	auriez rétracté	auraient rétracté
Imperative Imperatif retract!		rétracte		rétractons	rétractez

Present Indicative Tense conjugations of rétracter the French for retract
présent de l’indicatif

je rétracte
- I retract
tu rétractes
- you retract - (familiar or informal)
il, elle, on rétracte
- he, she, it, one retracts
nous rétractons
- we retract
vous rétractez
- you retract (formal or plural)
ils, elles rétractent
- they retract

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Imperfect Indicative Tense conjugations of rétracter, the French for retract
imparfait de l’indicatif

je rétractais
- I retracted
- I was retracting
tu rétractais
- you retracted- (familiar or informal)
- you were retracting
il, elle, on rétractait
- he, she, it, one retracted
- he, she, it, one was retracting
nous rétractions
- we retracted
- we were retracting
vous rétractiez
- you retracted- (formal or plural)
- you were retracting
ils, elles rétractaient
- they retracted
- they were retracting

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Simple Past or Past Definite Tense conjugations of rétracter, the French for retract
passé simple

je rétractai
- I retracted
tu rétractas
- you retracted- (familiar or informal)
il, elle, on rétracta
- he, she, it, one retracted
nous rétractâmes
- we retracted
vous rétractâtes
- you retracted- (formal or plural)
ils, elles rétractèrent
they retracted
(The passé simple tense is mainly used in literature and books, and is rarely used in spoken French language).

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Future Tense conjugations of rétracter, the French for retract
futur

je rétracterai
- I will retract
tu rétracteras
- you will retract (familiar or informal)
il, elle, on rétractera
- he, she, it, one will retract
nous rétracterons
- we will retract
vous rétracterez
- you will retract (formal or plural)
ils, elles rétracteront
- they will retract

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Conditional Tense conjugations of rétracter, the French for retract
conditionnel

je rétracterais
- I would retract
tu rétracterais
- you would retract (familiar or informal)
il, elle, on rétracterait
- he, she, it, one would retract
nous rétracterions
- we would retract
vous rétracteriez
- you would retract (formal or plural)
ils, elles rétracteraient
- they would retract

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Present Subjunctive Tense conjugations of rétracter, the French for retract
présent de subjonctif

que je rétracte
- that I may retract
que tu rétractes
- that you may retract(familiar or informal)
qu’il, qu’elle, qu’on rétracte
- that he, she, it, one may retract
que nous rétractions
- that we may retract
que vous rétractiez
- that you may retract(formal or plural)
qu’ils, qu’elles rétractent
- that they may retract

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The Four Compound Tenses of the French for verb rétracter - the verb ‘to retract’ in French

Past Participle of rétracter is:
rétracté -retracted.

Given that the past participle is put with several of the tenses of the verb - to have - avoir, to create the four 'often-used' compound tenses, its significance is strongly underlined. Once you have thoroughly committed these avoir tenses to memory, you have unlocked the first major key to to construction of compound verbs in French.

• I have retracted
• you had retracted
• he will have retracted
• we would have retracted

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Compound Past, Present Perfect or Past Indefinite Tense conjugations of rétracter - French for retract
passé composé

Here’s the French for retract conjugated with all the pronouns in the present perfect tense.
j’ai rétracté
- I have retracted or I did retract or
- I retracted
tu as rétracté
- you have retracted or you did retract - (familiar or informal) or
- you retracted
il, elle, on a rétracté
- he, she, it, one has retract or did retract
- he, she, it retracted
nous avons rétracté
- we have retracted or we did retract
- we retracted
vous avez rétracté
- you have retracted or you did retract (formal or plural) or
- or we retracted
ils, elles ont rétracté
- they have retracted or they did retract
- they retracted

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Past Perfect Indicative or Pluperfect Tense conjugations of rétracter - retract in French
plus-que-parfait de l’indicatif

Here’s the French for -retract conjugated with all the pronouns in the past perfect tense.
j’avais rétracté
- I had retracted
tu avais rétracté
- you had retracted- (familiar or informal)
il, elle, on avait rétracté
- he, she, it, one had retracted
nous avions rétracté
- we had retracted
vous aviez rétracté
- you had retracted (formal or plural)
ils, elles avaient rétracté
- they had retracted

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Future Perfect or Future Anterior Tense conjugations of rétracter, the French for retract
futur antérieur

j’aurai rétracté
- I will have
tu auras rétracté
- you will have - (familiar or informal)
il, elle, on aura rétracté
- he, she, it, one will have
nous aurons rétracté
- we will have
vous aurez rétracté
- you will have - (formal or plural)
ils, elles auront rétracté
- they will have

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Conditional Perfect Tense conjugations of rétracter, the French for retract
conditionnel passé

j’aurais rétracté
- I would have retracted
tu aurais rétracté
- you would have retracted- (familiar or informal)
il, elle, on aurait rétracté
- he, she, it, one would have retracted
nous aurions rétracté
- we would have retracted
vous auriez rétracté
- you would have retracted- (formal or plural)
ils, elles auraient rétracté
- they would have retracted

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Imperative Tense conjugations of rétracter, the French for retract
impératif

rétracte
- retract!
rétractons
- let’s retract!
rétractez
- retract!

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Present Participle of rétracter

rétractant - retracting

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