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atempter
atempter
Middle French
Verb
atempter
- To attempt; try
- a. 1610, Henri IV, Lettres Missives:
- aprés ceste priere il vouldroit passer oultre et atempter aulcune chose au prejudice de nostre dicte cousine et cousin de Longueville, leur tendre la main de vostre bonne et favorable protection pour empescher toutes mauvaises entreprinses queluy et tout aultre vouldroient faire sur ce qui leur appartient
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Conjugation
- Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of atempter
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | atempter | avoir atempté | |||||
| gerund | en atemptant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | atemptant | ||||||
| past participle | atempté | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | ie (may be i' before a vowel) | tu | il | nous | vous | ilz, elles | |
| simple tenses |
present | atempte | atemptes | atempte | atemptons | atemptez | atemptent |
| imperfect | atemptois, atemptoys | atemptois, atemptoys | atemptoit, atemptoyt | atemptions, atemptyons | atemptiez, atemptyez | atemptoient, atemptoyent | |
| past historic | atempta | atemptas | atempta | atemptasmes | atemptastes | atempterent | |
| future | atempterai, atempteray | atempteras | atemptera | atempterons | atempterez | atempteront | |
| conditional | atempterois, atempteroys | atempterois, atempteroys | atempteroit, atempteroyt | atempterions, atempteryons | atempteriez, atempteryez | atempteroient, atempteroyent | |
| 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 past historic 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 ie | que tu | qu'il | que nous | que vous | qu'ilz, qu'elles | |
| simple tenses |
present | atempte | atemptes | atempte | atemptons | atemptez | atemptent |
| imperfect | atemptasse | atemptasses | atemptast | atemptassions | atemptassiez | atemptassent | |
| 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 | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | atempte | — | atemptons | atemptez | — | ||
Descendants
- French: attenter