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touchier
touchier
Old French
Verb
touchier
- Alternative form of tochier
- circa 1170, Christian of Troyes, Yvain ou le Chevalier au Lion:
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Qu'il me vit vers lui aprochier.
Je ne soi s'il me vaut touchier[.]- He saw me coming toward him.
I did not know if it was worth touching him.
- He saw me coming toward him.
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Qu'il me vit vers lui aprochier.
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Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -ier, with a palatal stem. These verbs are conjugated mostly like verbs in -er, but there is an extra i before the e of some endings. In the present tense an extra supporting e is needed in the first-person singular indicative and throughout the singular subjunctive, and the third-person singular subjunctive ending -t is lost. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of touchier (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | touchier | avoir touchié | |||||
| gerund | en touchant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | touchant | ||||||
| past participle | touchié | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | touche | touches | touche | touchons | touchiez | touchent |
| imperfect | touchoie, toucheie, touchoe, touchieve | touchoies, toucheies, touchoes, touchieves | touchoit, toucheit, touchot, touchieve | touchiiens, touchiens | touchiiez, touchiez | touchoient, toucheient, touchoent, touchievent | |
| preterite | touchai | touchas | toucha | touchames | touchastes | touchierent | |
| future | toucherai | toucheras | touchera | toucherons | toucheroiz, touchereiz, toucherez | toucheront | |
| conditional | toucheroie, touchereie | toucheroies, touchereies | toucheroit, touchereit | toucheriiens, toucheriens | toucheriiez, toucheriez | toucheroient, touchereient | |
| 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 | touche | touches | touche | touchons | touchiez | touchent |
| imperfect | touchasse | touchasses | touchast | touchissons, touchissiens | touchissoiz, touchissez, touchissiez | touchassent | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | touche | — | touchons | touchiez | — | ||