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saveir
saveir
Old French
Verb
saveir
- Alternative form of savoir
- circa 1170, Wace, Le Roman de Rou:
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Dez ke Richart le sout, un espie enveia
Saveir u Thiebaut ert, e combien gent il a.- As soon as Richard knew about it, he sent a spy
to know where Thibalt was, and how many people he had with him.
- As soon as Richard knew about it, he sent a spy
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Dez ke Richart le sout, un espie enveia
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Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem sev distinct from the unstressed stem sav, 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 saveir (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | saveir | aveir seü | |||||
| gerund | en savant, sachant | Use the gerund of aveir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | savant, sachant | ||||||
| past participle | seü | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | sai | ses | set | savons | savez | sevent |
| imperfect | saveie | saveies | saveit | saviiens, saviens | saviiez, saviez | saveient | |
| preterite | soi | seüs | sot | seümes | seüstes | sorent | |
| future | savrai, sarai | savras, saras | savra, sara | savrons, sarons | savreiz, savrez, sareiz, sarez | savront, saront | |
| conditional | savreie, sareie | savreies, sareies | savreit, sareit | savriiens, savriens, sariiens, sariens | savriiez, savriez, sariiez, sariez | savreient, sareient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of aveir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of aveir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the preterite tense of aveir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of aveir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of aveir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses |
present | sache | saches | sache | sachiens, sachons | sachiez | sachent |
| imperfect | seüsse | seüsses | seüst | seüssons, seüssiens | seüsseiz, seüssez, seüssiez | seüssent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of aveir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of aveir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | sache | — | sachiens, sachons | sachiez | — | ||
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *sapēre, from Classial Latin sapiō, sapere (“taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁p- (“to try, to research”).
Verb
saveir