traiter
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French traicter, from Old French tretier, traitier, traiter, from Latin tractāre (“to pull, manage”), from the past participle stem of trahō (“to draw, pull”) (cf. tractus, whence French trait). See also tracter.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
traiter
- (transitive) to treat
- bien traiter quelqu’un ― to treat someone well
- (transitive) to take care (of)
- être traité pour, se faire traiter pour ― to undergo treatment for (a condition)
- (transitive) to process, spray, coat
- Les champs de blé étaient traités avec des pesticides par avion. ― The wheat fields were aerially sprayed with pesticide.
- (transitive, data processing) to process
- Les opérateurs de l’équipe de nuit traitent les tâches par lots. ― The night shift operators process batch jobs.
- (ditransitive, with the indirect object taking de) to call, label (something negative)
- Synonyms: qualifier, taxer
- Ils l’ont traitée de menteuse. ― They called her a liar.
- Il m’a traité de tous les noms. ― He called me every name under the sun.
- (transitive with de) to deal with, handle (i.e. commerce, a subject or theme)
- Cet article traitera de sujets très sérieux. ― This article will deal with very serious subjects.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of traiter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | traiter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | traitant /tʁɛ.tɑ̃/ or /tʁe.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | traité /tʁɛ.te/ or /tʁe.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | traite /tʁɛt/ |
traites /tʁɛt/ |
traite /tʁɛt/ |
traitons /tʁɛ.tɔ̃/ or /tʁe.tɔ̃/ |
traitez /tʁɛ.te/ or /tʁe.te/ |
traitent /tʁɛt/ |
| imperfect | traitais /tʁɛ.tɛ/ or /tʁe.tɛ/ |
traitais /tʁɛ.tɛ/ or /tʁe.tɛ/ |
traitait /tʁɛ.tɛ/ or /tʁe.tɛ/ |
traitions /tʁɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /tʁe.tjɔ̃/ |
traitiez /tʁɛ.tje/ or /tʁe.tje/ |
traitaient /tʁɛ.tɛ/ or /tʁe.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | traitai /tʁɛ.te/ or /tʁe.te/ |
traitas /tʁɛ.ta/ or /tʁe.ta/ |
traita /tʁɛ.ta/ or /tʁe.ta/ |
traitâmes /tʁɛ.tam/ or /tʁe.tam/ |
traitâtes /tʁɛ.tat/ or /tʁe.tat/ |
traitèrent /tʁɛ.tɛʁ/ or /tʁe.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | traiterai /tʁɛ.tʁe/ or /tʁe.tʁe/ |
traiteras /tʁɛ.tʁa/ or /tʁe.tʁa/ |
traitera /tʁɛ.tʁa/ or /tʁe.tʁa/ |
traiterons /tʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /tʁe.tʁɔ̃/ |
traiterez /tʁɛ.tʁe/ or /tʁe.tʁe/ |
traiteront /tʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /tʁe.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | traiterais /tʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /tʁe.tʁɛ/ |
traiterais /tʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /tʁe.tʁɛ/ |
traiterait /tʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /tʁe.tʁɛ/ |
traiterions /tʁɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /tʁe.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
traiteriez /tʁɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /tʁe.tə.ʁje/ |
traiteraient /tʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /tʁe.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 | traite /tʁɛt/ |
traites /tʁɛt/ |
traite /tʁɛt/ |
traitions /tʁɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /tʁe.tjɔ̃/ |
traitiez /tʁɛ.tje/ or /tʁe.tje/ |
traitent /tʁɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | traitasse /tʁɛ.tas/ or /tʁe.tas/ |
traitasses /tʁɛ.tas/ or /tʁe.tas/ |
traitât /tʁɛ.ta/ or /tʁe.ta/ |
traitassions /tʁɛ.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /tʁe.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
traitassiez /tʁɛ.ta.sje/ or /tʁe.ta.sje/ |
traitassent /tʁɛ.tas/ or /tʁe.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | traite /tʁɛt/ |
— | traitons /tʁɛ.tɔ̃/ or /tʁe.tɔ̃/ |
traitez /tʁɛ.te/ or /tʁe.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
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “traiter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.