treter
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin trāctare (“to pull", "to manage”), from the past participle stem of trahere (“to draw", "to pull”).
Verb
treter
- to treat (behave a certain way towards someone or something)
- to deal with (a subject)
- c. 1120, Philippe de Taon, Bestiaire, line 790:
- N'en voil ore plus traiter, altre vol cumencer
- I don't want to deal with it anymore, I want to start another one
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of treter (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | treter | avoir treté | |||||
| gerund | en tretant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
| present participle | tretant | ||||||
| past participle | treté | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | tret | tretes | trete | tretons | tretez | tretent |
| imperfect | tretoie, treteie, tretoe, treteve | tretoies, treteies, tretoes, treteves | tretoit, treteit, tretot, treteve | tretiiens, tretiens | tretiiez, tretiez | tretoient, treteient, tretoent, tretevent | |
| preterite | tretai | tretas | treta | tretames | tretastes | treterent | |
| future | treterai | treteras | tretera | treterons | treteroiz, tretereiz, treterez | treteront | |
| conditional | treteroie, tretereie | treteroies, tretereies | treteroit, tretereit | treteriiens, treteriens | treteriiez, treteriez | treteroient, tretereient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses |
present | tret | trez | tret | tretons | tretez | tretent |
| imperfect | tretasse | tretasses | tretast | tretissons, tretissiens | tretissoiz, tretissez, tretissiez | tretassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | trete | — | tretons | tretez | — | ||