tendre
EnglishEdit
AdjectiveEdit
tendre (comparative more tendre, superlative most tendre)
- Obsolete form of tender.
VerbEdit
tendre (third-person singular simple present tendres, present participle tendring, simple past and past participle tendred)
- Obsolete form of tender.
NounEdit
tendre (plural tendres)
- (archaic) Tender feeling or fondness; affection.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 15, in Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108:
- You poor friendless creatures are always having some foolish tendre […]
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
- So the athletic Magnolia instantly impounded the little lieutenant, and began to rally him, in the sort of slang she delighted in, with plenty of merriment and malice upon his tendre for Miss Chattesworth, and made the gallant young gentleman blush and occasionally smile, and bow a great deal, and take some snuff.
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Catalan tendre, from older tenre (with epenthesis), from Latin tener (“soft, tender”), from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”). Compare Occitan tèndre, French tendre, Spanish tierno.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
tendre (feminine tendra, masculine and feminine plural tendres)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Latin tenēre, with a change in verb class.
VerbEdit
tendre
ReferencesEdit
- “tendre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “tendre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
- “tendre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “tendre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old French tendre, from Latin tenerum, accusative of tener, from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”).
AdjectiveEdit
tendre (plural tendres)
- tender (soft, delicate)
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Old French tendre, from Latin tendere, present active infinitive of tendō.
VerbEdit
tendre
- (transitive) to tighten
- (transitive) to stretch out
- (intransitive, ~ vers) to tend (to infinity)
- (intransitive, ~ vers) to strive (for)
- (reflexive) to become taut
ConjugationEdit
infinitive | simple | tendre | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | tendant /tɑ̃.dɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | tendu /tɑ̃.dy/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | tends /tɑ̃/ |
tends /tɑ̃/ |
tend /tɑ̃/ |
tendons /tɑ̃.dɔ̃/ |
tendez /tɑ̃.de/ |
tendent /tɑ̃d/ |
imperfect | tendais /tɑ̃.dɛ/ |
tendais /tɑ̃.dɛ/ |
tendait /tɑ̃.dɛ/ |
tendions /tɑ̃.djɔ̃/ |
tendiez /tɑ̃.dje/ |
tendaient /tɑ̃.dɛ/ | |
past historic2 | tendis /tɑ̃.di/ |
tendis /tɑ̃.di/ |
tendit /tɑ̃.di/ |
tendîmes /tɑ̃.dim/ |
tendîtes /tɑ̃.dit/ |
tendirent /tɑ̃.diʁ/ | |
future | tendrai /tɑ̃.dʁe/ |
tendras /tɑ̃.dʁa/ |
tendra /tɑ̃.dʁa/ |
tendrons /tɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ |
tendrez /tɑ̃.dʁe/ |
tendront /tɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | tendrais /tɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
tendrais /tɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
tendrait /tɑ̃.dʁɛ/ |
tendrions /tɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/ |
tendriez /tɑ̃.dʁi.je/ |
tendraient /tɑ̃.dʁɛ/ | |
(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 | tende /tɑ̃d/ |
tendes /tɑ̃d/ |
tende /tɑ̃d/ |
tendions /tɑ̃.djɔ̃/ |
tendiez /tɑ̃.dje/ |
tendent /tɑ̃d/ |
imperfect2 | tendisse /tɑ̃.dis/ |
tendisses /tɑ̃.dis/ |
tendît /tɑ̃.di/ |
tendissions /tɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/ |
tendissiez /tɑ̃.di.sje/ |
tendissent /tɑ̃.dis/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | tends /tɑ̃/ |
— | tendons /tɑ̃.dɔ̃/ |
tendez /tɑ̃.de/ |
— | |
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 termsEdit
Related termsEdit
AnagramsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “tendre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Old French tendre.
AdjectiveEdit
tendre
- tender (soft, delicate)
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 6-7.
- The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
- Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 6-7.
DescendantsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Old English tynder.
NounEdit
tendre
- Alternative form of tinder
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French tendre, from Latin tener, tenerum.
AdjectiveEdit
tendre m or f
Old FrenchEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Latin tenerum, accusative of tener.
AdjectiveEdit
tendre m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tendre)
- tender (soft, delicate)
Etymology 2Edit
From Latin tendere, present active infinitive of tendō.
VerbEdit
tendre
- (transitive) to stretch
ConjugationEdit
This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | tendre | avoir tendu | |||||
gerund | en tendant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
present participle | tendant | ||||||
past participle | tendu | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
simple tenses |
present | tent | tenz | tent | tendons | tendez | tendent |
imperfect | tendoie, tendeie | tendoies, tendeies | tendoit, tendeit | tendiiens, tendiens | tendiiez, tendiez | tendoient, tendeient | |
preterite | tendi | tendis | tendié | tendimes | tendistes | tendierent | |
future | tendrai | tendras | tendra | tendrons | tendroiz, tendreiz, tendrez | tendront | |
conditional | tendroie, tendreie | tendroies, tendreies | tendroit, tendreit | tendriiens, tendriens | tendriiez, tendriez | tendroient, tendreient | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
past anterior | Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
simple tenses |
present | tende | tendes | tende | tendons | tendez | tendent |
imperfect | tendisse | tendisses | tendist | tendissons, tendissiens | tendissoiz, tendissez, tendissiez | tendissent | |
compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
— | tent | — | tendons | tendez | — |