attraire
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French atraire, atreire, from Vulgar Latin *attragere, from Latin attrahō.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
attraire
Conjugation edit
This verb traditionally has no past historic or imperfect subjunctive. They would be formed on a -attray- root: *je attrayis, *que nous attrayissions 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 -attrais- was used instead of -attray- in the 18th century, and remains in Swiss and Savoy dialects.
Conjugation of attraire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | attraire | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | attrayant /a.tʁɛ.jɑ̃/ or /a.tʁe.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | attrait /a.tʁɛ/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | attrais /a.tʁɛ/ |
attrais /a.tʁɛ/ |
attrait /a.tʁɛ/ |
attrayons /a.tʁɛ.jɔ̃/ or /a.tʁe.jɔ̃/ |
attrayez /a.tʁɛ.je/ or /a.tʁe.je/ |
attraient /a.tʁɛ/ |
| imperfect | attrayais /a.tʁɛ.jɛ/ or /a.tʁe.jɛ/ |
attrayais /a.tʁɛ.jɛ/ or /a.tʁe.jɛ/ |
attrayait /a.tʁɛ.jɛ/ or /a.tʁe.jɛ/ |
attrayions /a.tʁɛj.jɔ̃/ |
attrayiez /a.tʁɛj.je/ |
attrayaient /a.tʁɛ.jɛ/ or /a.tʁe.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | attrayai /a.tʁɛe/ |
attrayas /a.tʁɛa/ |
attraya /a.tʁɛa/ |
attrayâmes /a.tʁɛam/ |
attrayâtes /a.tʁɛat/ |
attrayèrent /a.tʁɛɛʁ/ | |
| future | attrairai /a.tʁɛ.ʁe/ or /a.tʁe.ʁe/ |
attrairas /a.tʁɛ.ʁa/ or /a.tʁe.ʁa/ |
attraira /a.tʁɛ.ʁa/ or /a.tʁe.ʁa/ |
attrairons /a.tʁɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.tʁe.ʁɔ̃/ |
attrairez /a.tʁɛ.ʁe/ or /a.tʁe.ʁe/ |
attrairont /a.tʁɛ.ʁɔ̃/ or /a.tʁe.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | attrairais /a.tʁɛ.ʁɛ/ or /a.tʁe.ʁɛ/ |
attrairais /a.tʁɛ.ʁɛ/ or /a.tʁe.ʁɛ/ |
attrairait /a.tʁɛ.ʁɛ/ or /a.tʁe.ʁɛ/ |
attrairions /a.tʁɛ.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.tʁe.ʁjɔ̃/ |
attrairiez /a.tʁɛ.ʁje/ or /a.tʁe.ʁje/ |
attrairaient /a.tʁɛ.ʁɛ/ or /a.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 | attraie /a.tʁɛ/ |
attraies /a.tʁɛ/ |
attraie /a.tʁɛ/ |
attrayions /a.tʁɛj.jɔ̃/ |
attrayiez /a.tʁɛj.je/ |
attraient /a.tʁɛ/ |
| imperfect2 | attrayasse /a.tʁɛas/ |
attrayasses /a.tʁɛas/ |
attrayât /a.tʁɛa/ |
attrayassions /a.tʁɛa.sjɔ̃/ |
attrayassiez /a.tʁɛa.sje/ |
attrayassent /a.tʁɛas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | attrais /a.tʁɛ/ |
— | attrayons /a.tʁɛ.jɔ̃/ or /a.tʁe.jɔ̃/ |
attrayez /a.tʁɛ.je/ or /a.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). | |||||||
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “attraire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.