Borrowed from Latin distrahere, with conjugation based on French traire.
distraire
This verb traditionally has no past historic or imperfect subjunctive. They would be formed on a -distray- root: *je distrayis, *que nous distrayissions 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 -distrais- was used instead of -distray- in the 18th century, and remains in Swiss and Savoy dialects.
| infinitive | simple | distraire | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | distrayant /dis.tʁɛ.jɑ̃/ or /dis.tʁe.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | distrait /dis.tʁɛ/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | distrais /dis.tʁɛ/ |
distrais /dis.tʁɛ/ |
distrait /dis.tʁɛ/ |
distrayons /dis.tʁɛ.jɔ̃/ or /dis.tʁe.jɔ̃/ |
distrayez /dis.tʁɛ.je/ or /dis.tʁe.je/ |
distraient /dis.tʁɛ/ |
| imperfect | distrayais /dis.tʁɛ.jɛ/ or /dis.tʁe.jɛ/ |
distrayais /dis.tʁɛ.jɛ/ or /dis.tʁe.jɛ/ |
distrayait /dis.tʁɛ.jɛ/ or /dis.tʁe.jɛ/ |
distrayions /dis.tʁɛj.jɔ̃/ |
distrayiez /dis.tʁɛj.je/ |
distrayaient /dis.tʁɛ.jɛ/ or /dis.tʁe.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | distrayai /dis.tʁɛe/ |
distrayas /dis.tʁɛa/ |
distraya /dis.tʁɛa/ |
distrayâmes /dis.tʁɛam/ |
distrayâtes /dis.tʁɛat/ |
distrayèrent /dis.tʁɛɛʁ/ | |
| future | distrairai /dis.tʁɛ.ʁe/ or /dis.tʁe.ʁe/ |
distrairas /dis.tʁɛ.ʁa/ or /dis.tʁe.ʁa/ |
distraira /dis.tʁɛ.ʁa/ or /dis.tʁe.ʁa/ |
distrairons /dis.tʁɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /dis.tʁe.ʁɔ̃/ |
distrairez /dis.tʁɛ.ʁe/ or /dis.tʁe.ʁe/ |
distrairont /dis.tʁɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /dis.tʁe.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | distrairais /dis.tʁɛ.ʁɛ/ or /dis.tʁe.ʁɛ/ |
distrairais /dis.tʁɛ.ʁɛ/ or /dis.tʁe.ʁɛ/ |
distrairait /dis.tʁɛ.ʁɛ/ or /dis.tʁe.ʁɛ/ |
distrairions /dis.tʁɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /dis.tʁe.ʁjɔ̃/ |
distrairiez /dis.tʁɛ.ʁje/ or /dis.tʁe.ʁje/ |
distrairaient /dis.tʁɛ.ʁɛ/ or /dis.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 | distraie /dis.tʁɛ/ |
distraies /dis.tʁɛ/ |
distraie /dis.tʁɛ/ |
distrayions /dis.tʁɛj.jɔ̃/ |
distrayiez /dis.tʁɛj.je/ |
distraient /dis.tʁɛ/ |
| imperfect2 | distrayasse /dis.tʁɛas/ |
distrayasses /dis.tʁɛas/ |
distrayât /dis.tʁɛa/ |
distrayassions /dis.tʁɛa.sjɔ̃/ |
distrayassiez /dis.tʁɛa.sje/ |
distrayassent /dis.tʁɛas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | distrais /dis.tʁɛ/ |
— | distrayons /dis.tʁɛ.jɔ̃/ or /dis.tʁe.jɔ̃/ |
distrayez /dis.tʁɛ.je/ or /dis.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:
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Borrowed from Latin distrahere. Attested from the 13th century.[1]
distraire
This verb needs an inflection-table template.