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mescroire
mescroire
Old French
Alternative forms
Verb
mescroire
- to disbelieve
- 12th Century, Béroul, Tristan et Iseut:
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Ne jamais jor ne mescroira
- Never would he disbelieve
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Ne jamais jor ne mescroira
- circa 1250, Rutebeuf, Ci encoumence li miracles que Nostre Dame fist dou soucretain et d'une dame:
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Ne ne me deveiz pas mescroire.
- You must not disbelieve me.
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Ne ne me deveiz pas mescroire.
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- to mistrust; to doubt
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem mescroi distinct from the unstressed stem mescre, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of mescroire (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | mescroire | avoir mescreü | |||||
| gerund | en mescreant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | mescreant | ||||||
| past participle | mescreü | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | mescroi | mescroiz | mescroit | mescreons | mescreez | mescroient |
| imperfect | mescreoie, mescreeie | mescreoies, mescreeies | mescreoit, mescreeit | mescreïiens, mescreïens | mescreïiez, mescreïez | mescreoient, mescreeient | |
| preterite | mescrui, mescreï | mescreüs, mescreïs | mescrut, mescreï | mescreümes, mescreïmes | mescreüstes, mescreïstes | mescrurent, mescreïrent | |
| future | mescrerai | mescreras | mescrera | mescrerons | mescreroiz, mescrereiz, mescrerez | mescreront | |
| conditional | mescreroie, mescrereie | mescreroies, mescrereies | mescreroit, mescrereit | mescreriiens, mescreriens | mescreriiez, mescreriez | mescreroient, mescrereient | |
| 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 | mescroie | mescroies | mescroie | mescreons | mescreez | mescroient |
| imperfect | mescreüsse, mescreïsse | mescreüsses, mescreïsses | mescreüst, mescreïst | mescreüssons, mescreüssiens, mescreïssons, mescreïssiens | mescreüssoiz, mescreüssez, mescreüssiez, mescreïssoiz, mescreïssez, mescreïssiez | mescreüssent, mescreïssent | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | mescroi | — | mescreons | mescreez | — | ||
Descendants
- French: mécroire
References
- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (mescroire)