pâtir
See also: patir
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin patior, patī, and adapted to French as a fourth-conjugation verb.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.tiʁ/, /pɑ.tiʁ/
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Verb
pâtir
- (literary) to suffer
- Synonym: souffrir
Conjugation
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-.
Conjugation of pâtir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | pâtir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
- compatir
- passion
- patient, patience
Further reading
- “pâtir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- parti, priât, ripât, tapir