Inherited from Old French paistre, from Latin pāscere, from Proto-Italic *pāskō, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect”).
paître (defective)
This verb is not conjugated in certain tenses.
| infinitive | simple | paître | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | paissant /pɛ.sɑ̃/ or /pe.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pu /py/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | pais /pɛ/2 |
pais /pɛ/ |
paît /pɛ/ |
paissons /pɛ.sɔ̃/ or /pe.sɔ̃/ |
paissez /pɛ.se/ or /pe.se/ |
paissent /pɛs/ |
| imperfect | paissais /pɛ.sɛ/ or /pe.sɛ/ |
paissais /pɛ.sɛ/ or /pe.sɛ/ |
paissait /pɛ.sɛ/ or /pe.sɛ/ |
paissions /pɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /pe.sjɔ̃/ |
paissiez /pɛ.sje/ or /pe.sje/ |
paissaient /pɛ.sɛ/ or /pe.sɛ/ | |
| past historic4 | pus /py/ |
pus /py/ |
put /py/ |
pûmes /pym/ |
pûtes /pyt/ |
purent /pyʁ/ | |
| future | paîtrai /pɛ.tʁe/ or /pe.tʁe/ |
paîtras /pɛ.tʁa/ or /pe.tʁa/ |
paîtra /pɛ.tʁa/ or /pe.tʁa/ |
paîtrons /pɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /pe.tʁɔ̃/ |
paîtrez /pɛ.tʁe/ or /pe.tʁe/ |
paîtront /pɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /pe.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | paîtrais /pɛ.tʁɛ/ or /pe.tʁɛ/ |
paîtrais /pɛ.tʁɛ/ or /pe.tʁɛ/ |
paîtrait /pɛ.tʁɛ/ or /pe.tʁɛ/ |
paîtrions /pɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /pe.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
paîtriez /pɛ.tʁi.je/ or /pe.tʁi.je/ |
paîtraient /pɛ.tʁɛ/ or /pe.tʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior4 | 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 | paisse /pɛs/3 |
paisses /pɛs/ |
paisse /pɛs/ |
paissions /pɛ.sjɔ̃/ or /pe.sjɔ̃/ |
paissiez /pɛ.sje/ or /pe.sje/ |
paissent /pɛs/ |
| imperfect4 | pusse /pys/ |
pusses /pys/ |
pût /py/ |
pussions /py.sjɔ̃/ |
pussiez /py.sje/ |
pussent /pys/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect4 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pais /pɛ/ |
— | paissons /pɛ.sɔ̃/ or /pe.sɔ̃/ |
paissez /pɛ.se/ or /pe.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 puis when inverted. | |||||||
| 3 puissé when inverted. | |||||||
4 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). | |||||||
From Old French paistre (“to graze”), from Latin pāscō, pāscere (“feed, nourish, maintain, support; pasture, drive to pasture, attend; feed, supply, cultivate, let grow; graze, browse”).
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