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abstraire
abstraire
French
Verb
abstraire
- (very rare) to abstract (to separate; to remove; to take away)
Usage notes
- This verb is more common in the compound tenses and infinitive than in actually conjugated forms. It is generally replaced by faire abstraction.
Conjugation
This verb traditionally has no past historic or imperfect subjunctive. They would be formed on a -abstray- root: *je abstrayis, *que nous abstrayissions 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 -abstrais- was used instead of -abstray- in the 18th century, and remains in Swiss and Savoy dialects.
Conjugation of abstraire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | abstraire | avoir abstrait | |||||
| gerund | en abstrayant | en ayant abstrait | |||||
| present participle | abstrayant /ap.stʁɛ.jɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | abstrait /ap.stʁɛ/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | abstrais /ap.stʁɛ/ |
abstrais /ap.stʁɛ/ |
abstrait /ap.stʁɛ/ |
abstrayons /ap.stʁɛ.jɔ̃/ |
abstrayez /ap.stʁɛ.je/ |
abstraient /ap.stʁɛ/ |
| imperfect | abstrayais /ap.stʁɛ.jɛ/ |
abstrayais /ap.stʁɛ.jɛ/ |
abstrayait /ap.stʁɛ.jɛ/ |
abstrayions /ap.stʁɛj.jɔ̃/ |
abstrayiez /ap.stʁɛj.je/ |
abstrayaient /ap.stʁɛ.jɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | abstrayai /ap.stʁɛ.je/ |
abstrayas /ap.stʁɛ.ja/ |
abstraya /ap.stʁɛ.ja/ |
abstrayâmes /ap.stʁɛ.jam/ |
abstrayâtes /ap.stʁɛ.jat/ |
abstrayèrent /ap.stʁɛ.jɛʁ/ |
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| future | abstrairai /ap.stʁɛ.ʁe/ |
abstrairas /ap.stʁɛ.ʁa/ |
abstraira /ap.stʁɛ.ʁa/ |
abstrairons /ap.stʁɛ.ʁɔ̃/ |
abstrairez /ap.stʁɛ.ʁe/ |
abstrairont /ap.stʁɛ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | abstrairais /ap.stʁɛ.ʁɛ/ |
abstrairais /ap.stʁɛ.ʁɛ/ |
abstrairait /ap.stʁɛ.ʁɛ/ |
abstrairions /ap.stʁɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ |
abstrairiez /ap.stʁɛ.ʁje/ |
abstrairaient /ap.stʁɛ.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | abstraie /ap.stʁɛ/ |
abstraies /ap.stʁɛ/ |
abstraie /ap.stʁɛ/ |
abstrayions /ap.stʁɛj.jɔ̃/ |
abstrayiez /ap.stʁɛj.je/ |
abstraient /ap.stʁɛ/ |
| imperfect1 |
abstrayasse /ap.stʁɛ.jas/ |
abstrayasses /ap.stʁɛ.jas/ |
abstrayât /ap.stʁɛ.ja/ |
abstrayassions /ap.stʁɛ.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
abstrayassiez /ap.stʁɛ.ja.sje/ |
abstrayassent /ap.stʁɛ.jas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | abstrais /ap.stʁɛ/ |
— | abstrayons /ap.stʁɛ.jɔ̃/ |
abstrayez /ap.stʁɛ.je/ |
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