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pâtir
pâtir
See also: patir
French
Verb
pâtir
- (literary) to suffer
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of pâtir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | pâtir | avoir pâti | |||||
| gerund | en pâtissant | en ayant pâti | |||||
| present participle | pâtissant /pɑ.ti.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | pâti /pɑ.ti/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | pâtis /pɑ.ti/ |
pâtis /pɑ.ti/ |
pâtit /pɑ.ti/ |
pâtissons /pɑ.ti.sɔ̃/ |
pâtissez /pɑ.ti.se/ |
pâtissent /pɑ.tis/ |
| imperfect | pâtissais /pɑ.ti.sɛ/ |
pâtissais /pɑ.ti.sɛ/ |
pâtissait /pɑ.ti.sɛ/ |
pâtissions /pɑ.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
pâtissiez /pɑ.ti.sje/ |
pâtissaient /pɑ.ti.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | pâtis /pɑ.ti/ |
pâtis /pɑ.ti/ |
pâtit /pɑ.ti/ |
pâtîmes /pɑ.tim/ |
pâtîtes /pɑ.tit/ |
pâtirent /pɑ.tiʁ/ |
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| future | pâtirai /pɑ.ti.ʁe/ |
pâtiras /pɑ.ti.ʁa/ |
pâtira /pɑ.ti.ʁa/ |
pâtirons /pɑ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
pâtirez /pɑ.ti.ʁe/ |
pâtiront /pɑ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | pâtirais /pɑ.ti.ʁɛ/ |
pâtirais /pɑ.ti.ʁɛ/ |
pâtirait /pɑ.ti.ʁɛ/ |
pâtirions /pɑ.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pâtiriez /pɑ.ti.ʁje/ |
pâtiraient /pɑ.ti.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 | pâtisse /pɑ.tis/ |
pâtisses /pɑ.tis/ |
pâtisse /pɑ.tis/ |
pâtissions /pɑ.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
pâtissiez /pɑ.ti.sje/ |
pâtissent /pɑ.tis/ |
| imperfect1 |
pâtisse /pɑ.tis/ |
pâtisses /pɑ.tis/ |
pâtît /pɑ.ti/ |
pâtissions /pɑ.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
pâtissiez /pɑ.ti.sje/ |
pâtissent /pɑ.tis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | pâtis /pɑ.ti/ |
— | pâtissons /pɑ.ti.sɔ̃/ |
pâtissez /pɑ.ti.se/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||