paître
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See also: paitre
French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French paistre, from Latin pāscere, present active infinitive of pāscō, from Proto-Italic *pāskō, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
paître (defective)
- (intransitive) to graze
Conjugation[edit]
This verb is not conjugated in certain tenses.
Conjugation of paître (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | paître | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | paissant /pɛ.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | pu /py/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | pais /pɛ/ |
pais /pɛ/ |
paît /pɛ/ |
paissons /pɛ.sɔ̃/ |
paissez /pɛ.se/ |
paissent /pɛs/ |
imperfect | paissais /pɛ.sɛ/ |
paissais /pɛ.sɛ/ |
paissait /pɛ.sɛ/ |
paissions /pɛ.sjɔ̃/ |
paissiez /pɛ.sje/ |
paissaient /pɛ.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | pus /py/ |
pus /py/ |
put /py/ |
pûmes /pym/ |
pûtes /pyt/ |
purent /pyʁ/ | |
future | paîtrai /pɛ.tʁe/ |
paîtras /pɛ.tʁa/ |
paîtra /pɛ.tʁa/ |
paîtrons /pɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
paîtrez /pɛ.tʁe/ |
paîtront /pɛ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | paîtrais /pɛ.tʁɛ/ |
paîtrais /pɛ.tʁɛ/ |
paîtrait /pɛ.tʁɛ/ |
paîtrions /pɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
paîtriez /pɛ.tʁi.je/ |
paîtraient /pɛ.tʁɛ/ | |
(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 | paisse /pɛs/ |
paisses /pɛs/ |
paisse /pɛs/ |
paissions /pɛ.sjɔ̃/ |
paissiez /pɛ.sje/ |
paissent /pɛs/ |
imperfect2 | pusse /pys/ |
pusses /pys/ |
pût /py/ |
pussions /py.sjɔ̃/ |
pussiez /py.sje/ |
pussent /pys/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | pais /pɛ/ |
— | paissons /pɛ.sɔ̃/ |
paissez /pɛ.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 only usable with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “paître” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams[edit]
Norman[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French paistre (“to graze”), from Latin pāscō, pāscere (“feed, nourish, maintain, support; pasture, drive to pasture, attend; feed, supply, cultivate, let grow; graze, browse”).
Verb[edit]
paître
Derived terms[edit]
- env'yer tchitch'un à paître (“to send someone packing”)
- laîssi paître ès coucous (“to leave fallow”)
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