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esmouvoir
esmouvoir
Middle French
Verb
esmouvoir
- to move (cause emotion)
- circa 1590, Henri IV, Lettres Missives
- Mais ceux qui parleront d'essayer à esmouvoir le Pape à penser et pourveoir à l'accroissement de la puissance espagnole en Italie cognoissent tres mal son humeur.
- But those who are talking of trying to move to Pope into thinking and into foreseeing the increase of the Spanish power in Italy do not know his disposition at all.
- Mais ceux qui parleront d'essayer à esmouvoir le Pape à penser et pourveoir à l'accroissement de la puissance espagnole en Italie cognoissent tres mal son humeur.
- circa 1590, Henri IV, Lettres Missives
Old French
Verb
esmouvoir
- Alternative form of esmovoir
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a distinct stressed present stem, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of esmouvoir (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | esmouvoir | avoir esmeü, es meu | |||||
| gerund | en esmouvant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | esmouvant | ||||||
| past participle | esmeü, es meu | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | esmuef | esmues | esmuet | esmouvons | esmouvez | esmuevent |
| imperfect | esmouvoie, esmouveie | esmouvoies, esmouveies | esmouvoit, esmouveit | esmouviiens, esmouviens | esmouviiez, esmouviez | esmouvoient, esmouveient | |
| preterite | esmui | esmeüs | esmut | esmeümes | esmeüstes | esmurent | |
| future | esmouvrai | esmouvras | esmouvra | esmouvrons | esmouvroiz, esmouvreiz, esmouvrez | esmouvront | |
| conditional | esmouvroie, esmouvreie | esmouvroies, esmouvreies | esmouvroit, esmouvreit | esmouvriiens, esmouvriens | esmouvriiez, esmouvriez | esmouvroient, esmouvreient | |
| 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 preterite 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 jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses |
present | esmueve | esmueves | esmueve | esmouvons | esmouvez | esmuevent |
| imperfect | esmeüsse | esmeüsses | esmeüst | esmeüssons, esmeüssiens | esmeüssoiz, esmeüssez, esmeüssiez | esmeüssent | |
| 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 | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | esmuef | — | esmouvons | esmouvez | — | ||