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paître
paître
See also: paitre
French
Alternative forms
Verb
paître (defective)
- (intransitive) to graze
Conjugation
This verb is not conjugated in certain tenses.
Conjugation of paître (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | paître | — | |||||
| gerund | en paissant | — | |||||
| present participle | paissant /pɛ.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | — | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | pais /pɛ/ |
pais /pɛ/ |
paît /pɛ/ |
paissons /pɛ.sɔ̃/ |
paissez /pɛ.se/ |
paissent /pɛs/ |
| imperfect | paissais /pɛ.sɛ/ |
paissais /pɛ.sɛ/ |
paissait /pɛ.sɛ/ |
paissions /pɛ.sjɔ̃/ |
paissiez /pɛ.sje/ |
paissaient /pɛ.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| future | paîtrai /pɛ.tʁe/ |
paîtras /pɛ.tʁa/ |
paîtra /pɛ.tʁa/ |
paîtrons /pɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
paîtrez /pɛ.tʁe/ |
paîtront /pɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | paîtrais /pɛ.tʁɛ/ |
paîtrais /pɛ.tʁɛ/ |
paîtrait /pɛ.tʁɛ/ |
paîtrions /pɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
paîtriez /pɛ.tʁi.je/ |
paîtraient /pɛ.tʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | — | |||||
| pluperfect | — | ||||||
| past anterior1 | — | ||||||
| future perfect | — | ||||||
| conditional perfect | — | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | paisse /pɛs/ |
paisses /pɛs/ |
paisse /pɛs/ |
paissions /pɛ.sjɔ̃/ |
paissiez /pɛ.sje/ |
paissent /pɛs/ |
| imperfect1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| compound tenses |
past | — | |||||
| pluperfect1 | — | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | pais /pɛ/ |
— | paissons /pɛ.sɔ̃/ |
paissez /pɛ.se/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
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Etymology
From Old French paistre (“to graze”), from Latin pāscō, pāscere (“feed, nourish, maintain, support; pasture, drive to pasture, attend; feed, supply, cultivate, let grow; graze, browse”).
Verb
paître
Derived terms
- env'yer tchitch'un à paître (“to send someone packing”)
- laîssi paître ès coucous (“to leave fallow”)