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distraire
distraire
French
Verb
distraire
- to distract
Conjugation
This verb traditionally has no past historic or imperfect subjunctive. They would be formed on a -distray- root: *je distrayis, *que nous distrayissions 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 -distrais- was used instead of -distray- in the 18th century, and remains in Swiss and Savoy dialects.
Conjugation of distraire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | distraire | avoir distrait | |||||
| gerund | en distrayant | en ayant distrait | |||||
| present participle | distrayant /dis.tʁɛ.jɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | distrait /dis.tʁɛ/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | distrais /dis.tʁɛ/ |
distrais /dis.tʁɛ/ |
distrait /dis.tʁɛ/ |
distrayons /dis.tʁɛ.jɔ̃/ |
distrayez /dis.tʁɛ.je/ |
distraient /dis.tʁɛ/ |
| imperfect | distrayais /dis.tʁɛ.jɛ/ |
distrayais /dis.tʁɛ.jɛ/ |
distrayait /dis.tʁɛ.jɛ/ |
distrayions /dis.tʁɛj.jɔ̃/ |
distrayiez /dis.tʁɛj.je/ |
distrayaient /dis.tʁɛ.jɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | distrayai /dis.tʁɛ.je/ |
distrayas /dis.tʁɛ.ja/ |
distraya /dis.tʁɛ.ja/ |
distrayâmes /dis.tʁɛ.jam/ |
distrayâtes /dis.tʁɛ.jat/ |
distrayèrent /dis.tʁɛ.jɛʁ/ |
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| future | distrairai /dis.tʁɛ.ʁe/ |
distrairas /dis.tʁɛ.ʁa/ |
distraira /dis.tʁɛ.ʁa/ |
distrairons /dis.tʁɛ.ʁɔ̃/ |
distrairez /dis.tʁɛ.ʁe/ |
distrairont /dis.tʁɛ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | distrairais /dis.tʁɛ.ʁɛ/ |
distrairais /dis.tʁɛ.ʁɛ/ |
distrairait /dis.tʁɛ.ʁɛ/ |
distrairions /dis.tʁɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ |
distrairiez /dis.tʁɛ.ʁje/ |
distrairaient /dis.tʁɛ.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 | distraie /dis.tʁɛ/ |
distraies /dis.tʁɛ/ |
distraie /dis.tʁɛ/ |
distrayions /dis.tʁɛj.jɔ̃/ |
distrayiez /dis.tʁɛj.je/ |
distraient /dis.tʁɛ/ |
| imperfect1 |
distrayasse /dis.tʁɛ.jas/ |
distrayasses /dis.tʁɛ.jas/ |
distrayât /dis.tʁɛ.ja/ |
distrayassions /dis.tʁɛ.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
distrayassiez /dis.tʁɛ.ja.sje/ |
distrayassent /dis.tʁɛ.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 | – | |
| — | distrais /dis.tʁɛ/ |
— | distrayons /dis.tʁɛ.jɔ̃/ |
distrayez /dis.tʁɛ.je/ |
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