distraire
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin distrahere, present active infinitive form of distrahō, with conjugation based on French traire.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dis.tʁɛʁ/
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Verb
distraire
- to distract
Conjugation
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.
Conjugation of distraire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| 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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
- distraction
Further reading
- “distraire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Occitan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin distrahere, present active infinitive form of distrahō. Attested from the 13th century.[1]
Pronunciation
Audio (Béarn) (file)
Verb
distraire
- to distract
Conjugation
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Related terms
- distraccion
References
- Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 205.