atempter
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Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Old French atanter, from Latin
Verb
[edit]atempter
- To attempt; try
- a. 1610, Henri IV, Lettres Missives:
- aprés ceste priere il vouldroit passer oultre et atempter aulcune chose au prejudice de nostre dicte cousine et cousin de Longueville, leur tendre la main de vostre bonne et favorable protection pour empescher toutes mauvaises entreprinses queluy et tout aultre vouldroient faire sur ce qui leur appartient
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
[edit]- Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of atempter
infinitive | simple | atempter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle1 or gerund2 | simple | atemptant | |||||
compound | present participle or gerund of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past participle | atempté | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | ie (i’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ilz, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | atempte | atemptes | atempte | atemptons | atemptez | atemptent |
imperfect | atemptois, atemptoys | atemptois, atemptoys | atemptoit, atemptoyt | atemptions, atemptyons | atemptiez, atemptyez | atemptoient, atemptoyent | |
past historic | atempta | atemptas | atempta | atemptasmes | atemptastes | atempterent | |
future | atempterai, atempteray | atempteras | atemptera | atempterons | atempterez | atempteront | |
conditional | atempterois, atempteroys | atempterois, atempteroys | atempteroit, atempteroyt | atempterions, atempteryons | atempteriez, atempteryez | atempteroient, atempteroyent | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que ie (i’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ilz, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | atempte | atemptes | atempte | atemptons | atemptez | atemptent |
imperfect | atemptasse | atemptasses | atemptast | atemptassions | atemptassiez | atemptassent | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | atempte | — | atemptons | atemptez | — | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The present participle was variable in gender and number until the 17th century (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], Une esthétique nouvelle: Honoré d'Urfé, correcteur de l'Astrée, p. 179). The French Academy would eventually declare it not to be declined in 1679. | |||||||
2 The gerund was held to be invariable by grammarians of the early 17th century, and was usable with preposition en, as in Modern French, although the preposition was not mandatory (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], op. cit., p. 180). |
Descendants
[edit]- French: attenter