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travestir
travestir
French
Verb
travestir
- (transitive) to disguise
- (transitive) to travesty, parody
- (transitive) to dress up (especially in clothes of the opposite sex)
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 travestir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | travestir | avoir travesti | |||||
| gerund | en travestissant | en ayant travesti | |||||
| present participle | travestissant /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | travesti /tʁa.vɛs.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 | travestis /tʁa.vɛs.ti/ |
travestis /tʁa.vɛs.ti/ |
travestit /tʁa.vɛs.ti/ |
travestissons /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɔ̃/ |
travestissez /tʁa.vɛs.ti.se/ |
travestissent /tʁa.vɛs.tis/ |
| imperfect | travestissais /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɛ/ |
travestissais /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɛ/ |
travestissait /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɛ/ |
travestissions /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
travestissiez /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sje/ |
travestissaient /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | travestis /tʁa.vɛs.ti/ |
travestis /tʁa.vɛs.ti/ |
travestit /tʁa.vɛs.ti/ |
travestîmes /tʁa.vɛs.tim/ |
travestîtes /tʁa.vɛs.tit/ |
travestirent /tʁa.vɛs.tiʁ/ |
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| future | travestirai /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁe/ |
travestiras /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁa/ |
travestira /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁa/ |
travestirons /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
travestirez /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁe/ |
travestiront /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | travestirais /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁɛ/ |
travestirais /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁɛ/ |
travestirait /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁɛ/ |
travestirions /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
travestiriez /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁje/ |
travestiraient /tʁa.vɛs.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 | travestisse /tʁa.vɛs.tis/ |
travestisses /tʁa.vɛs.tis/ |
travestisse /tʁa.vɛs.tis/ |
travestissions /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
travestissiez /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sje/ |
travestissent /tʁa.vɛs.tis/ |
| imperfect1 |
travestisse /tʁa.vɛs.tis/ |
travestisses /tʁa.vɛs.tis/ |
travestît /tʁa.vɛs.ti/ |
travestissions /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
travestissiez /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sje/ |
travestissent /tʁa.vɛs.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 | – | |
| — | travestis /tʁa.vɛs.ti/ |
— | travestissons /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɔ̃/ |
travestissez /tʁa.vɛs.ti.se/ |
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