priver

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prīvāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʁi.ve/
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Verb

priver

  1. to deprive
    • 2004 January 16, “Éditorial : Un cautère sur une jambe de bois”, in Aujourd'hui‎:
      D’où cette fuite des cerveaux vers des cieux plus cléments qui prive le Maroc de ses meilleurs cadres dans les secteurs les plus névralgiques pour l’économie nationale.
      Hence this brain drain to more clement climes which deprives Morocco of its best executives in the most sensitive sectors of the national economy.

Conjugation

Conjugation of priver (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple priver
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple privant
/pʁi.vɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle privé
/pʁi.ve/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present prive
/pʁiv/ 		prives
/pʁiv/ 		prive
/pʁiv/ 		privons
/pʁi.vɔ̃/ 		privez
/pʁi.ve/ 		privent
/pʁiv/
imperfect privais
/pʁi.vɛ/ 		privais
/pʁi.vɛ/ 		privait
/pʁi.vɛ/ 		privions
/pʁi.vjɔ̃/ 		priviez
/pʁi.vje/ 		privaient
/pʁi.vɛ/
past historic2 privai
/pʁi.ve/ 		privas
/pʁi.va/ 		priva
/pʁi.va/ 		privâmes
/pʁi.vam/ 		privâtes
/pʁi.vat/ 		privèrent
/pʁi.vɛʁ/
future priverai
/pʁi.vʁe/ 		priveras
/pʁi.vʁa/ 		privera
/pʁi.vʁa/ 		priverons
/pʁi.vʁɔ̃/ 		priverez
/pʁi.vʁe/ 		priveront
/pʁi.vʁɔ̃/
conditional priverais
/pʁi.vʁɛ/ 		priverais
/pʁi.vʁɛ/ 		priverait
/pʁi.vʁɛ/ 		priverions
/pʁi.və.ʁjɔ̃/ 		priveriez
/pʁi.və.ʁje/ 		priveraient
/pʁi.vʁɛ/
(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 prive
/pʁiv/ 		prives
/pʁiv/ 		prive
/pʁiv/ 		privions
/pʁi.vjɔ̃/ 		priviez
/pʁi.vje/ 		privent
/pʁiv/
imperfect2 privasse
/pʁi.vas/ 		privasses
/pʁi.vas/ 		privât
/pʁi.va/ 		privassions
/pʁi.va.sjɔ̃/ 		privassiez
/pʁi.va.sje/ 		privassent
/pʁi.vas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — prive
/pʁiv/ 		— privons
/pʁi.vɔ̃/ 		privez
/pʁi.ve/ 		—
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).

Further reading

Latin

Verb

prīver

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of prīvō
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