traire

French

Etymology

From Old French traire, treire, from Vulgar Latin *tragere, from Latin trahere, present active infinitive of trahō (“I pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *tragʰ- (“to draw, drag”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /tʁɛʁ/, X-SAMPA: /tRER/
• Rhymes: -ɛʁ

Verb

traire

1. (transitive) to milk (a cow, etc)

Conjugation

• Verbs derived from traire traditionally have no past historic or subjunctive imperfect. They would be formed on a -tray- root: *je trayis, *que nous trayissions etc. Forms using the ‘a’ endings of verbs in -er are now used when there is an unavoidable need to use these forms.
• The root -trais- was used instead of -tray- in the 18th century, and remains in Swiss and Savoy dialects.

   Conjugation of traire (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		traire			avoir or être trait
gerund		en trayant			Use the gerund of avoir or être followed by the past participle
present participle		trayant
past participle		trait
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	trais	trais	trait	trayons	trayez	traient
	imperfect	trayais	trayais	trayait	trayions	trayiez	trayaient
	past historic1	N/A or trayai	N/A or trayas	N/A or traya	N/A or trayâmes	N/A or trayâtes	N/A or trayèrent
	future	trairai	trairas	traira	trairons	trairez	trairont
	conditional	trairais	trairais	trairait	trairions	trairiez	trairaient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	traie	traies	traie	trayions	trayiez	traient
	imperfect1	N/A or trayasse	N/A or trayasses	N/A or trayât	N/A or trayassions	N/A or trayassiez	N/A or trayassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir or être followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir or être followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	traie	—	trayons	trayez	—
1literary tenses

Anagrams

• errait, retira, terrai, tirera, triera

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Middle French

Verb

traire

1. to fire (an arrow)
   • circa 1369, Jean Froissart, Chroniques:

     arbalestriers commencierent a traire sur le chastel

     [the] crossbowmen started to fire at the castle

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Old French

Verb

traire

1. Alternative form of treire.
   • circa 1170, Wace, Le Roman de Rou:

     A plusurs fist traire les denz

     For many, he pulled out their teeth