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soustraire
soustraire
French
Verb
soustraire
Conjugation
This verb traditionally has no past historic or imperfect subjunctive. They would be formed on a -soustray- root: *je soustrayis, *que nous soustrayissions etc. Forms using the ‘a’ endings of verbs in -er are now used when there is an unavoidable need to use these forms. The root -soustrais- was used instead of -soustray- in the 18th century, and remains in Swiss and Savoy dialects.
Conjugation of soustraire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | soustraire | avoir soustrait | |||||
| gerund | en soustrayant | en ayant soustrait | |||||
| present participle | soustrayant /sus.tʁɛ.jɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | soustrait /sus.tʁɛ/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | soustrais /sus.tʁɛ/ |
soustrais /sus.tʁɛ/ |
soustrait /sus.tʁɛ/ |
soustrayons /sus.tʁɛ.jɔ̃/ |
soustrayez /sus.tʁɛ.je/ |
soustraient /sus.tʁɛ/ |
| imperfect | soustrayais /sus.tʁɛ.jɛ/ |
soustrayais /sus.tʁɛ.jɛ/ |
soustrayait /sus.tʁɛ.jɛ/ |
soustrayions /sus.tʁɛj.jɔ̃/ |
soustrayiez /sus.tʁɛj.je/ |
soustrayaient /sus.tʁɛ.jɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | soustrayai /sus.tʁɛ.je/ |
soustrayas /sus.tʁɛ.ja/ |
soustraya /sus.tʁɛ.ja/ |
soustrayâmes /sus.tʁɛ.jam/ |
soustrayâtes /sus.tʁɛ.jat/ |
soustrayèrent /sus.tʁɛ.jɛʁ/ |
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| future | soustrairai /sus.tʁɛ.ʁe/ |
soustrairas /sus.tʁɛ.ʁa/ |
soustraira /sus.tʁɛ.ʁa/ |
soustrairons /sus.tʁɛ.ʁɔ̃/ |
soustrairez /sus.tʁɛ.ʁe/ |
soustrairont /sus.tʁɛ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | soustrairais /sus.tʁɛ.ʁɛ/ |
soustrairais /sus.tʁɛ.ʁɛ/ |
soustrairait /sus.tʁɛ.ʁɛ/ |
soustrairions /sus.tʁɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ |
soustrairiez /sus.tʁɛ.ʁje/ |
soustrairaient /sus.tʁɛ.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 | soustraie /sus.tʁɛ/ |
soustraies /sus.tʁɛ/ |
soustraie /sus.tʁɛ/ |
soustrayions /sus.tʁɛj.jɔ̃/ |
soustrayiez /sus.tʁɛj.je/ |
soustraient /sus.tʁɛ/ |
| imperfect1 |
soustrayasse /sus.tʁɛ.jas/ |
soustrayasses /sus.tʁɛ.jas/ |
soustrayât /sus.tʁɛ.ja/ |
soustrayassions /sus.tʁɛ.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
soustrayassiez /sus.tʁɛ.ja.sje/ |
soustrayassent /sus.tʁɛ.jas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | soustrais /sus.tʁɛ/ |
— | soustrayons /sus.tʁɛ.jɔ̃/ |
soustrayez /sus.tʁɛ.je/ |
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