convoiter
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French convoitier, altered from the older coveitier (by analogy with the prefix con-), from Vulgar Latin *cupidietāre, a verb based on *cupidietās, a modification of the Classical Latin cupiditās by analogy with words such as medietās.
Pronunciation edit
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Verb edit
convoiter
- to covet, to desire
- Tu ne convoiteras pas la femme de ton prochain.
- Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife.
- 1864, Phaedrus, translated by Levasseur and J. Chenu, Fables, sourced from [1]:
- On perd justement son bien, quand on convoite celui d’autrui.
- He who covets what belongs to another, deservedly loses his own.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of convoiter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | convoiter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | convoitant /kɔ̃.vwa.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | convoité /kɔ̃.vwa.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | convoite /kɔ̃.vwat/ |
convoites /kɔ̃.vwat/ |
convoite /kɔ̃.vwat/ |
convoitons /kɔ̃.vwa.tɔ̃/ |
convoitez /kɔ̃.vwa.te/ |
convoitent /kɔ̃.vwat/ |
| imperfect | convoitais /kɔ̃.vwa.tɛ/ |
convoitais /kɔ̃.vwa.tɛ/ |
convoitait /kɔ̃.vwa.tɛ/ |
convoitions /kɔ̃.vwa.tjɔ̃/ |
convoitiez /kɔ̃.vwa.tje/ |
convoitaient /kɔ̃.vwa.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | convoitai /kɔ̃.vwa.te/ |
convoitas /kɔ̃.vwa.ta/ |
convoita /kɔ̃.vwa.ta/ |
convoitâmes /kɔ̃.vwa.tam/ |
convoitâtes /kɔ̃.vwa.tat/ |
convoitèrent /kɔ̃.vwa.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | convoiterai /kɔ̃.vwa.tʁe/ |
convoiteras /kɔ̃.vwa.tʁa/ |
convoitera /kɔ̃.vwa.tʁa/ |
convoiterons /kɔ̃.vwa.tʁɔ̃/ |
convoiterez /kɔ̃.vwa.tʁe/ |
convoiteront /kɔ̃.vwa.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | convoiterais /kɔ̃.vwa.tʁɛ/ |
convoiterais /kɔ̃.vwa.tʁɛ/ |
convoiterait /kɔ̃.vwa.tʁɛ/ |
convoiterions /kɔ̃.vwa.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
convoiteriez /kɔ̃.vwa.tə.ʁje/ |
convoiteraient /kɔ̃.vwa.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | convoite /kɔ̃.vwat/ |
convoites /kɔ̃.vwat/ |
convoite /kɔ̃.vwat/ |
convoitions /kɔ̃.vwa.tjɔ̃/ |
convoitiez /kɔ̃.vwa.tje/ |
convoitent /kɔ̃.vwat/ |
| imperfect2 | convoitasse /kɔ̃.vwa.tas/ |
convoitasses /kɔ̃.vwa.tas/ |
convoitât /kɔ̃.vwa.ta/ |
convoitassions /kɔ̃.vwa.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
convoitassiez /kɔ̃.vwa.ta.sje/ |
convoitassent /kɔ̃.vwa.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | convoite /kɔ̃.vwat/ |
— | convoitons /kɔ̃.vwa.tɔ̃/ |
convoitez /kɔ̃.vwa.te/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “convoiter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.