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traicter
traicter
Middle French
Verb
traicter
- to treat (a certain way)
- 1534, François Rabelais, Gargantua:
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Ce fait, Gymnaste se retyre, considerant que les cas de hazart iamais ne fault poursuyvre iusques a leur periode et qu'il convient a tous chevaliers reverentement traicter leur bonne fortune
- This done, Gymnast left, considering that one should never follow a fluke to the end of its process, and that all knights should treat their good luck modestly.
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Ce fait, Gymnaste se retyre, considerant que les cas de hazart iamais ne fault poursuyvre iusques a leur periode et qu'il convient a tous chevaliers reverentement traicter leur bonne fortune
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- (of a topic) to treat
- 1595, Michel de Montaigne, Essais, book II, chapter 10:
- il faut feuilleter sans distinction toutes sortes d’autheurs et vieils et nouveaux, et barragouins et François, pour y apprendre les choses, dequoy diversement ils traictent.
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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 traicter
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | traicter | avoir tracté | |||||
| gerund | en tractant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | tractant | ||||||
| past participle | tracté | ||||||
| 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 | tracte | tractes | tracte | tractons | tractez | tractent |
| imperfect | tractois, tractoys | tractois, tractoys | tractoit, tractoyt | tractions, tractyons | tractiez, tractyez | tractoient, tractoyent | |
| past historic | tracta | tractas | tracta | tractasmes | tractastes | tracterent | |
| future | tracterai, tracteray | tracteras | tractera | tracterons | tracterez | tracteront | |
| conditional | tracterois, tracteroys | tracterois, tracteroys | tracteroit, tracteroyt | tracterions, tracteryons | tracteriez, tracteryez | tracteroient, tracteroyent | |
| 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 | tracte | tractes | tracte | tractons | tractez | tractent |
| imperfect | tractasse | tractasses | tractast | tractassions | tractassiez | tractassent | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | tracte | — | tractons | tractez | — | ||
Descendants
- French: traiter