travestir
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian travestire.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
travestir
- (transitive) to disguise
- (reflexive) to dress up (especially in clothes of the opposite sex)
- (transitive, derogatory) to travesty (to make a travesty of), distort
Conjugation edit
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-.
infinitive | simple | travestir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | travestissant /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | travesti /tʁa.vɛs.ti/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | travestis /tʁa.vɛs.ti/ |
travestis /tʁa.vɛs.ti/ |
travestit /tʁa.vɛs.ti/ |
travestissons /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɔ̃/ |
travestissez /tʁa.vɛs.ti.se/ |
travestissent /tʁa.vɛs.tis/ |
imperfect | travestissais /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɛ/ |
travestissais /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɛ/ |
travestissait /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɛ/ |
travestissions /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
travestissiez /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sje/ |
travestissaient /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | travestis /tʁa.vɛs.ti/ |
travestis /tʁa.vɛs.ti/ |
travestit /tʁa.vɛs.ti/ |
travestîmes /tʁa.vɛs.tim/ |
travestîtes /tʁa.vɛs.tit/ |
travestirent /tʁa.vɛs.tiʁ/ | |
future | travestirai /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁe/ |
travestiras /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁa/ |
travestira /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁa/ |
travestirons /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
travestirez /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁe/ |
travestiront /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | travestirais /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁɛ/ |
travestirais /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁɛ/ |
travestirait /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁɛ/ |
travestirions /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
travestiriez /tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁje/ |
travestiraient /tʁa.vɛs.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 | travestisse /tʁa.vɛs.tis/ |
travestisses /tʁa.vɛs.tis/ |
travestisse /tʁa.vɛs.tis/ |
travestissions /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
travestissiez /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sje/ |
travestissent /tʁa.vɛs.tis/ |
imperfect2 | travestisse /tʁa.vɛs.tis/ |
travestisses /tʁa.vɛs.tis/ |
travestît /tʁa.vɛs.ti/ |
travestissions /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
travestissiez /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sje/ |
travestissent /tʁa.vɛs.tis/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | travestis /tʁa.vɛs.ti/ |
— | travestissons /tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɔ̃/ |
travestissez /tʁa.vɛs.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). |
Further reading edit
- “travestir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
travestir (first-person singular present travisto, third-person singular present traviste, first-person singular preterite travestín, past participle travestido)
travestir (first-person singular present travisto, third-person singular present traveste, first-person singular preterite travestim or travesti, past participle travestido, reintegrationist norm)
Conjugation edit
1Less recommended.
Further reading edit
- “travestir” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
- “travestir” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
travestir (first-person singular present travisto, third-person singular present traveste, first-person singular preterite travesti, past participle travestido)
- to dress up in drag (as members of the opposite sex)
- to disguise, masquerade
Conjugation edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French travestir.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
travestir (first-person singular present travisto, first-person singular preterite travestí, past participle travestido)
Conjugation edit
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Further reading edit
- “travestir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014