attraire

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French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French atraire, atreire, from Vulgar Latin *attragere, from Latin attrahō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.tʁɛʁ/
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Verb

attraire

  1. (obsolete) to attract (be attractive)
  2. (obsolete, law) to sue

Conjugation

This verb traditionally has no past historic or imperfect subjunctive. They would be formed on a -attray- root: *je attrayis, *que nous attrayissions 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 -attrais- was used instead of -attray- in the 18th century, and remains in Swiss and Savoy dialects.

Conjugation of attraire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple attraire
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple attrayant
/a.tʁɛ.jɑ̃/ or /a.tʁe.jɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle attrait
/a.tʁɛ/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present attrais
/a.tʁɛ/ 		attrais
/a.tʁɛ/ 		attrait
/a.tʁɛ/ 		attrayons
/a.tʁɛ.jɔ̃/ or /a.tʁe.jɔ̃/ 		attrayez
/a.tʁɛ.je/ or /a.tʁe.je/ 		attraient
/a.tʁɛ/
imperfect attrayais
/a.tʁɛ.jɛ/ or /a.tʁe.jɛ/ 		attrayais
/a.tʁɛ.jɛ/ or /a.tʁe.jɛ/ 		attrayait
/a.tʁɛ.jɛ/ or /a.tʁe.jɛ/ 		attrayions
/a.tʁɛj.jɔ̃/ 		attrayiez
/a.tʁɛj.je/ 		attrayaient
/a.tʁɛ.jɛ/ or /a.tʁe.jɛ/
past historic2 attrayai
/a.tʁɛe/ 		attrayas
/a.tʁɛa/ 		attraya
/a.tʁɛa/ 		attrayâmes
/a.tʁɛam/ 		attrayâtes
/a.tʁɛat/ 		attrayèrent
/a.tʁɛɛʁ/
future attrairai
/a.tʁɛ.ʁe/ or /a.tʁe.ʁe/ 		attrairas
/a.tʁɛ.ʁa/ or /a.tʁe.ʁa/ 		attraira
/a.tʁɛ.ʁa/ or /a.tʁe.ʁa/ 		attrairons
/a.tʁɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.tʁe.ʁɔ̃/ 		attrairez
/a.tʁɛ.ʁe/ or /a.tʁe.ʁe/ 		attrairont
/a.tʁɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.tʁe.ʁɔ̃/
conditional attrairais
/a.tʁɛ.ʁɛ/ or /a.tʁe.ʁɛ/ 		attrairais
/a.tʁɛ.ʁɛ/ or /a.tʁe.ʁɛ/ 		attrairait
/a.tʁɛ.ʁɛ/ or /a.tʁe.ʁɛ/ 		attrairions
/a.tʁɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.tʁe.ʁjɔ̃/ 		attrairiez
/a.tʁɛ.ʁje/ or /a.tʁe.ʁje/ 		attrairaient
/a.tʁɛ.ʁɛ/ or /a.tʁe.ʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present attraie
/a.tʁɛ/ 		attraies
/a.tʁɛ/ 		attraie
/a.tʁɛ/ 		attrayions
/a.tʁɛj.jɔ̃/ 		attrayiez
/a.tʁɛj.je/ 		attraient
/a.tʁɛ/
imperfect2 attrayasse
/a.tʁɛas/ 		attrayasses
/a.tʁɛas/ 		attrayât
/a.tʁɛa/ 		attrayassions
/a.tʁɛa.sjɔ̃/ 		attrayassiez
/a.tʁɛa.sje/ 		attrayassent
/a.tʁɛas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — attrais
/a.tʁɛ/ 		— attrayons
/a.tʁɛ.jɔ̃/ or /a.tʁe.jɔ̃/ 		attrayez
/a.tʁɛ.je/ or /a.tʁe.je/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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