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desrober
desrober
Middle French
Verb
desrober
- to loot; to plunder
- to steal
- 1595, Michel de Montaigne, Essais, book II, chapter 8:
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il ne se pouvoit garder pourtant s’il passoit pres d’une boutique, où il y eust chose, dequoy il eust besoin, de la desrobber
- He couldn't stop himself however, if he passed a shop that had something he needed, to steal it
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il ne se pouvoit garder pourtant s’il passoit pres d’une boutique, où il y eust chose, dequoy il eust besoin, de la desrobber
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Conjugation
- Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of desrober
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | desrober | avoir desrobé | |||||
| gerund | en desrobant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | desrobant | ||||||
| past participle | desrobé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | ie (may be i' before a vowel) | tu | il | nous | vous | ilz, elles | |
| simple tenses |
present | desrobe | desrobes | desrobe | desrobons | desrobez | desrobent |
| imperfect | desrobois, desroboys | desrobois, desroboys | desroboit, desroboyt | desrobions, desrobyons | desrobiez, desrobyez | desroboient, desroboyent | |
| past historic | desroba | desrobas | desroba | desrobasmes | desrobastes | desroberent | |
| future | desroberai, desroberay | desroberas | desrobera | desroberons | desroberez | desroberont | |
| conditional | desroberois, desroberoys | desroberois, desroberoys | desroberoit, desroberoyt | desroberions, desroberyons | desroberiez, desroberyez | desroberoient, desroberoyent | |
| 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 anterior | 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 ie | que tu | qu'il | que nous | que vous | qu'ilz, qu'elles | |
| simple tenses |
present | desrobe | desrobes | desrobe | desrobons | desrobez | desrobent |
| imperfect | desrobasse | desrobasses | desrobast | desrobassions | desrobassiez | desrobassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | desrobe | — | desrobons | desrobez | — | ||