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espoenter
espoenter
Old French
Verb
espoenter
- to scare
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of espoenter (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | espoenter | avoir espoenté | |||||
| gerund | en espoentant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | espoentant | ||||||
| past participle | espoenté | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | espoent | espoentes | espoente | espoentons | espoentez | espoentent |
| imperfect | espoentoie, espoenteie, espoentoe, espoenteve | espoentoies, espoenteies, espoentoes, espoenteves | espoentoit, espoenteit, espoentot, espoenteve | espoentiiens, espoentiens | espoentiiez, espoentiez | espoentoient, espoenteient, espoentoent, espoentevent | |
| preterite | espoentai | espoentas | espoenta | espoentames | espoentastes | espoenterent | |
| future | espoenterai | espoenteras | espoentera | espoenterons | espoenteroiz, espoentereiz, espoenterez | espoenteront | |
| conditional | espoenteroie, espoentereie | espoenteroies, espoentereies | espoenteroit, espoentereit | espoenteriiens, espoenteriens | espoenteriiez, espoenteriez | espoenteroient, espoentereient | |
| 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 | espoent | espoenz | espoent | espoentons | espoentez | espoentent |
| imperfect | espoentasse | espoentasses | espoentast | espoentissons, espoentissiens | espoentissoiz, espoentissez, espoentissiez | espoentassent | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | espoente | — | espoentons | espoentez | — | ||
Descendants
- French: épouvanter
References
- ↑ (fr)(de) *expaventāre in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (Walther von Wartburg, 2002)
- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (espoenter)
- espoenter on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub