pâtir

See also: patir

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin patior, patī, and adapted to French as a fourth-conjugation verb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.tiʁ/ ~ /pɑ.tiʁ/

Verb

pâtir

1. (literary) to suffer

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of pâtir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pâtir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pâtissant /pa.ti.sɑ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pâti /pa.ti/ or /pɑ.ti/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pâtis /pa.ti/ or /pɑ.ti/	pâtis /pa.ti/ or /pɑ.ti/	pâtit /pa.ti/ or /pɑ.ti/	pâtissons /pa.ti.sɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sɔ̃/	pâtissez /pa.ti.se/ or /pɑ.ti.se/	pâtissent /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/
	imperfect	pâtissais /pa.ti.sɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.sɛ/	pâtissais /pa.ti.sɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.sɛ/	pâtissait /pa.ti.sɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.sɛ/	pâtissions /pa.ti.sjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sjɔ̃/	pâtissiez /pa.ti.sje/ or /pɑ.ti.sje/	pâtissaient /pa.ti.sɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.sɛ/
	past historic2	pâtis /pa.ti/ or /pɑ.ti/	pâtis /pa.ti/ or /pɑ.ti/	pâtit /pa.ti/ or /pɑ.ti/	pâtîmes /pa.tim/ or /pɑ.tim/	pâtîtes /pa.tit/ or /pɑ.tit/	pâtirent /pa.tiʁ/ or /pɑ.tiʁ/
	future	pâtirai /pa.ti.ʁe/ or /pɑ.ti.ʁe/	pâtiras /pa.ti.ʁa/ or /pɑ.ti.ʁa/	pâtira /pa.ti.ʁa/ or /pɑ.ti.ʁa/	pâtirons /pa.ti.ʁɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.ʁɔ̃/	pâtirez /pa.ti.ʁe/ or /pɑ.ti.ʁe/	pâtiront /pa.ti.ʁɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pâtirais /pa.ti.ʁɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.ʁɛ/	pâtirais /pa.ti.ʁɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.ʁɛ/	pâtirait /pa.ti.ʁɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.ʁɛ/	pâtirions /pa.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	pâtiriez /pa.ti.ʁje/ or /pɑ.ti.ʁje/	pâtiraient /pa.ti.ʁɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.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	pâtisse /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/	pâtisses /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/	pâtisse /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/	pâtissions /pa.ti.sjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sjɔ̃/	pâtissiez /pa.ti.sje/ or /pɑ.ti.sje/	pâtissent /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/
	imperfect2	pâtisse /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/	pâtisses /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/	pâtît /pa.ti/ or /pɑ.ti/	pâtissions /pa.ti.sjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sjɔ̃/	pâtissiez /pa.ti.sje/ or /pɑ.ti.sje/	pâtissent /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pâtis /pa.ti/ or /pɑ.ti/	—	pâtissons /pa.ti.sɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sɔ̃/	pâtissez /pa.ti.se/ or /pɑ.ti.se/	—
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).

Synonyms

• souffrir

Related terms

• compatir
• passion
• patient, patience

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• parti, priât, ripât, tapir