Inherited from Middle French patir, borrowed from Latin patī.
pâtir
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
infinitive | simple | pâtir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | pâtissant /pa.ti.sɑ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | pâti /pa.ti/ or /pɑ.ti/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | pâtis /pa.ti/ or /pɑ.ti/ |
pâtis /pa.ti/ or /pɑ.ti/ |
pâtit /pa.ti/ or /pɑ.ti/ |
pâtissons /pa.ti.sɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sɔ̃/ |
pâtissez /pa.ti.se/ or /pɑ.ti.se/ |
pâtissent /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/ |
imperfect | pâtissais /pa.ti.sɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.sɛ/ |
pâtissais /pa.ti.sɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.sɛ/ |
pâtissait /pa.ti.sɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.sɛ/ |
pâtissions /pa.ti.sjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
pâtissiez /pa.ti.sje/ or /pɑ.ti.sje/ |
pâtissaient /pa.ti.sɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | pâtis /pa.ti/ or /pɑ.ti/ |
pâtis /pa.ti/ or /pɑ.ti/ |
pâtit /pa.ti/ or /pɑ.ti/ |
pâtîmes /pa.tim/ or /pɑ.tim/ |
pâtîtes /pa.tit/ or /pɑ.tit/ |
pâtirent /pa.tiʁ/ or /pɑ.tiʁ/ | |
future | pâtirai /pa.ti.ʁe/ or /pɑ.ti.ʁe/ |
pâtiras /pa.ti.ʁa/ or /pɑ.ti.ʁa/ |
pâtira /pa.ti.ʁa/ or /pɑ.ti.ʁa/ |
pâtirons /pa.ti.ʁɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
pâtirez /pa.ti.ʁe/ or /pɑ.ti.ʁe/ |
pâtiront /pa.ti.ʁɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | pâtirais /pa.ti.ʁɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.ʁɛ/ |
pâtirais /pa.ti.ʁɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.ʁɛ/ |
pâtirait /pa.ti.ʁɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.ʁɛ/ |
pâtirions /pa.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pâtiriez /pa.ti.ʁje/ or /pɑ.ti.ʁje/ |
pâtiraient /pa.ti.ʁɛ/ or /pɑ.ti.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 | pâtisse /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/ |
pâtisses /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/ |
pâtisse /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/ |
pâtissions /pa.ti.sjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
pâtissiez /pa.ti.sje/ or /pɑ.ti.sje/ |
pâtissent /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/ |
imperfect2 | pâtisse /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/ |
pâtisses /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/ |
pâtît /pa.ti/ or /pɑ.ti/ |
pâtissions /pa.ti.sjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
pâtissiez /pa.ti.sje/ or /pɑ.ti.sje/ |
pâtissent /pa.tis/ or /pɑ.tis/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | pâtis /pa.ti/ or /pɑ.ti/ |
— | pâtissons /pa.ti.sɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ti.sɔ̃/ |
pâtissez /pa.ti.se/ or /pɑ.ti.se/ |
— | |
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). |