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porporter
porporter
Old French
Verb
porporter
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 porporter (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | porporter | avoir porporté | |||||
| gerund | en porportant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | porportant | ||||||
| past participle | porporté | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | porport | porportes | porporte | porportons | porportez | porportent |
| imperfect | porportoie, porporteie, porportoe, porporteve | porportoies, porporteies, porportoes, porporteves | porportoit, porporteit, porportot, porporteve | porportiiens, porportiens | porportiiez, porportiez | porportoient, porporteient, porportoent, porportevent | |
| preterite | porportai | porportas | porporta | porportames | porportastes | porporterent | |
| future | porporterai | porporteras | porportera | porporterons | porporteroiz, porportereiz, porporterez | porporteront | |
| conditional | porporteroie, porportereie | porporteroies, porportereies | porporteroit, porportereit | porporteriiens, porporteriens | porporteriiez, porporteriez | porporteroient, porportereient | |
| 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 | porport | porporz | porport | porportons | porportez | porportent |
| imperfect | porportasse | porportasses | porportast | porportissons, porportissiens | porportissoiz, porportissez, porportissiez | porportassent | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | porporte | — | porportons | porportez | — | ||
Descendants
- English: purport (borrowed from the Anglo-Norman form purporter)
- Middle French: pourporter
- French: pourporter (archaic, regional)
References
- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (porporter)
- purporter on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub