ballaster

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.las.te/

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: ballastai, ballasté, ballastée, ballastées, ballastés, ballastez

Verb

ballaster

1. to ballast

Conjugation

Conjugation of ballaster (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ballaster
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ballastant /ba.las.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ballasté /ba.las.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ballaste /ba.last/	ballastes /ba.last/	ballaste /ba.last/	ballastons /ba.las.tɔ̃/	ballastez /ba.las.te/	ballastent /ba.last/
	imperfect	ballastais /ba.las.tɛ/	ballastais /ba.las.tɛ/	ballastait /ba.las.tɛ/	ballastions /ba.las.tjɔ̃/	ballastiez /ba.las.tje/	ballastaient /ba.las.tɛ/
	past historic2	ballastai /ba.las.te/	ballastas /ba.las.ta/	ballasta /ba.las.ta/	ballastâmes /ba.las.tam/	ballastâtes /ba.las.tat/	ballastèrent /ba.las.tɛʁ/
	future	ballasterai /ba.las.tə.ʁe/	ballasteras /ba.las.tə.ʁa/	ballastera /ba.las.tə.ʁa/	ballasterons /ba.las.tə.ʁɔ̃/	ballasterez /ba.las.tə.ʁe/	ballasteront /ba.las.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ballasterais /ba.las.tə.ʁɛ/	ballasterais /ba.las.tə.ʁɛ/	ballasterait /ba.las.tə.ʁɛ/	ballasterions /ba.las.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	ballasteriez /ba.las.tə.ʁje/	ballasteraient /ba.las.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	ballaste /ba.last/	ballastes /ba.last/	ballaste /ba.last/	ballastions /ba.las.tjɔ̃/	ballastiez /ba.las.tje/	ballastent /ba.last/
	imperfect2	ballastasse /ba.las.tas/	ballastasses /ba.las.tas/	ballastât /ba.las.ta/	ballastassions /ba.las.ta.sjɔ̃/	ballastassiez /ba.las.ta.sje/	ballastassent /ba.las.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ballaste /ba.last/	—	ballastons /ba.las.tɔ̃/	ballastez /ba.las.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).

Further reading

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