maltraiter

French

Etymology

From mal- +‎ traiter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mal.tʁɛ.te/ ~ /mal.tʁe.te/

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: maltraitai, maltraité, maltraitée, maltraitées, maltraités, maltraitez

Verb

maltraiter

1. to mistreat

Conjugation

Conjugation of maltraiter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	maltraiter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	maltraitant /mal.tʁɛ.tɑ̃/ or /mal.tʁe.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		maltraité /mal.tʁɛ.te/ or /mal.tʁe.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	maltraite /mal.tʁɛt/	maltraites /mal.tʁɛt/	maltraite /mal.tʁɛt/	maltraitons /mal.tʁɛ.tɔ̃/ or /mal.tʁe.tɔ̃/	maltraitez /mal.tʁɛ.te/ or /mal.tʁe.te/	maltraitent /mal.tʁɛt/
	imperfect	maltraitais /mal.tʁɛ.tɛ/ or /mal.tʁe.tɛ/	maltraitais /mal.tʁɛ.tɛ/ or /mal.tʁe.tɛ/	maltraitait /mal.tʁɛ.tɛ/ or /mal.tʁe.tɛ/	maltraitions /mal.tʁɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /mal.tʁe.tjɔ̃/	maltraitiez /mal.tʁɛ.tje/ or /mal.tʁe.tje/	maltraitaient /mal.tʁɛ.tɛ/ or /mal.tʁe.tɛ/
	past historic2	maltraitai /mal.tʁɛ.te/ or /mal.tʁe.te/	maltraitas /mal.tʁɛ.ta/ or /mal.tʁe.ta/	maltraita /mal.tʁɛ.ta/ or /mal.tʁe.ta/	maltraitâmes /mal.tʁɛ.tam/ or /mal.tʁe.tam/	maltraitâtes /mal.tʁɛ.tat/ or /mal.tʁe.tat/	maltraitèrent /mal.tʁɛ.tɛʁ/ or /mal.tʁe.tɛʁ/
	future	maltraiterai /mal.tʁɛ.tʁe/ or /mal.tʁe.tʁe/	maltraiteras /mal.tʁɛ.tʁa/ or /mal.tʁe.tʁa/	maltraitera /mal.tʁɛ.tʁa/ or /mal.tʁe.tʁa/	maltraiterons /mal.tʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /mal.tʁe.tʁɔ̃/	maltraiterez /mal.tʁɛ.tʁe/ or /mal.tʁe.tʁe/	maltraiteront /mal.tʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /mal.tʁe.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	maltraiterais /mal.tʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /mal.tʁe.tʁɛ/	maltraiterais /mal.tʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /mal.tʁe.tʁɛ/	maltraiterait /mal.tʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /mal.tʁe.tʁɛ/	maltraiterions /mal.tʁɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /mal.tʁe.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	maltraiteriez /mal.tʁɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /mal.tʁe.tə.ʁje/	maltraiteraient /mal.tʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /mal.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	maltraite /mal.tʁɛt/	maltraites /mal.tʁɛt/	maltraite /mal.tʁɛt/	maltraitions /mal.tʁɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /mal.tʁe.tjɔ̃/	maltraitiez /mal.tʁɛ.tje/ or /mal.tʁe.tje/	maltraitent /mal.tʁɛt/
	imperfect2	maltraitasse /mal.tʁɛ.tas/ or /mal.tʁe.tas/	maltraitasses /mal.tʁɛ.tas/ or /mal.tʁe.tas/	maltraitât /mal.tʁɛ.ta/ or /mal.tʁe.ta/	maltraitassions /mal.tʁɛ.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /mal.tʁe.ta.sjɔ̃/	maltraitassiez /mal.tʁɛ.ta.sje/ or /mal.tʁe.ta.sje/	maltraitassent /mal.tʁɛ.tas/ or /mal.tʁe.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	maltraite /mal.tʁɛt/	—	maltraitons /mal.tʁɛ.tɔ̃/ or /mal.tʁe.tɔ̃/	maltraitez /mal.tʁɛ.te/ or /mal.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Descendants

• → English: maltreat
• → German: malträtieren
• → Danish: maltraktere (under influence from traktere)
• Norwegian:
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: maltraktere (under influence from traktere)
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: maltraktera, maltraktere (under influence from traktera/traktere)
• → Polish: maltretować
• → Swedish: malträtera

Further reading

• “maltraiter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.