devoir
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See also devoirs
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Old French deveir (French devoir), from Latin debere ‘to owe’.
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- IPA: /dəˈvwɑː/
[edit] Noun
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devoir (plural devoirs)
- (archaic) Duty, business; something which one must do.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, vol. 1 p. 149:
- he imprint not so much in his schollers mind [...] where Marcellus died, as because he was unworthy of his devoire he died there [...].
- '"1787"', 'The History of Lady Emma Melcombe and her family' a novel by Winifred Marshall Gales, vol. 3. p. 155:
- I should have long ere this paid my devoirs to the inhabitants of Raymond Castle.
- 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, vol. 1:
- Then quoth the portress to the mistress of the house, "O my lady, arise and go to thy place that I in turn may do my devoir."
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, vol. 1 p. 149:
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[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
Old French deveir, from Latin debere ‘must’.
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
devoir m. (plural devoirs)
[edit] Verb
devoir
[edit] Conjugation
Conjugation of devoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | devoir | avoir dû | |||||
| gerund | en devant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | devant | ||||||
| past participle | dû | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | dois | dois | doit | devons | devez | doivent |
| imperfect | devais | devais | devait | devions | deviez | devaient | |
| past historic | dus | dus | dut | dûmes | dûtes | durent | |
| future | devrai | devras | devra | devrons | devrez | devront | |
| conditional | devrais | devrais | devrait | devrions | devriez | devraient | |
| 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 anterior | 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 | doive | doives | doive | devions | deviez | doivent |
| imperfect | dusse | dusses | dût | dussions | dussiez | dussent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | dois | — | devons | devez | — | ||
- The past participle drops the circumflex accent in its other forms: feminine singular due; masculine plural dus; feminine plural dues.
