paitre

See also: paître

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

paitre

1. post-1990 spelling of paître

Conjugation

This verb is not conjugated in certain tenses.

Conjugation of paitre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	paitre
	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/	pait /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	paitrai /pɛ.tʁe/ or /pe.tʁe/	paitras /pɛ.tʁa/ or /pe.tʁa/	paitra /pɛ.tʁa/ or /pe.tʁa/	paitrons /pɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /pe.tʁɔ̃/	paitrez /pɛ.tʁe/ or /pe.tʁe/	paitront /pɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /pe.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	paitrais /pɛ.tʁɛ/ or /pe.tʁɛ/	paitrais /pɛ.tʁɛ/ or /pe.tʁɛ/	paitrait /pɛ.tʁɛ/ or /pe.tʁɛ/	paitrions /pɛ.tʁi.jɔ̃/ or /pe.tʁi.jɔ̃/	paitriez /pɛ.tʁi.je/ or /pe.tʁi.je/	paitraient /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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “paitre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• parité, partie, patrie, pirate, piraté, prêtai, repait, repaît