trahir

French

Etymology

From Middle French trahir < Old French traïr, a Gallicization / adaptation of Latin trādere, present active infinitive of trādō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁa.iʁ/

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Verb

trahir

1. to betray

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 trahir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	trahir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	trahissant /tʁa.i.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		trahi /tʁa.i/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	trahis /tʁa.i/	trahis /tʁa.i/	trahit /tʁa.i/	trahissons /tʁa.i.sɔ̃/	trahissez /tʁa.i.se/	trahissent /tʁa.is/
	imperfect	trahissais /tʁa.i.sɛ/	trahissais /tʁa.i.sɛ/	trahissait /tʁa.i.sɛ/	trahissions /tʁa.i.sjɔ̃/	trahissiez /tʁa.i.sje/	trahissaient /tʁa.i.sɛ/
	past historic2	trahis /tʁa.i/	trahis /tʁa.i/	trahit /tʁa.i/	trahîmes /tʁa.im/	trahîtes /tʁa.it/	trahirent /tʁa.iʁ/
	future	trahirai /tʁa.i.ʁe/	trahiras /tʁa.i.ʁa/	trahira /tʁa.i.ʁa/	trahirons /tʁa.i.ʁɔ̃/	trahirez /tʁa.i.ʁe/	trahiront /tʁa.i.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	trahirais /tʁa.i.ʁɛ/	trahirais /tʁa.i.ʁɛ/	trahirait /tʁa.i.ʁɛ/	trahirions /tʁa.i.ʁjɔ̃/	trahiriez /tʁa.i.ʁje/	trahiraient /tʁa.i.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	trahisse /tʁa.is/	trahisses /tʁa.is/	trahisse /tʁa.is/	trahissions /tʁa.i.sjɔ̃/	trahissiez /tʁa.i.sje/	trahissent /tʁa.is/
	imperfect2	trahisse /tʁa.is/	trahisses /tʁa.is/	trahît /tʁa.i/	trahissions /tʁa.i.sjɔ̃/	trahissiez /tʁa.i.sje/	trahissent /tʁa.is/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	trahis /tʁa.i/	—	trahissons /tʁa.i.sɔ̃/	trahissez /tʁa.i.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).

Related terms

• trahison
• traître

Further reading

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

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Portuguese

Verb

trahir

1. Obsolete spelling of trair.

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.