pruver
Old French
Verb
pruver
- (Anglo-Norman) alternative form of prover
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Some verb forms containing -is(s-) might have been contaminated by pooir (“to be able”). Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of pruver (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | pruver | avoir pruvé | |||||
| gerund | en pruvant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
| present participle | pruvant | ||||||
| past participle | pruvé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | pruis | prueves | prueve | pruvons | pruvez | pruevent |
| imperfect | pruvoie, pruveie, pruvoe, pruveve | pruvoies, pruveies, pruvoes, pruveves | pruvoit, pruveit, pruvot, pruveve | pruviiens, pruviens | pruviiez, pruviez | pruvoient, pruveient, pruvoent, pruvevent | |
| preterite | pruvai | pruvas | pruva | pruvames | pruvastes | pruverent | |
| future | pruverai | pruveras | pruvera | pruverons | pruveroiz, pruvereiz, pruverez | pruveront | |
| conditional | pruveroie, pruvereie | pruveroies, pruvereies | pruveroit, pruvereit | pruveriiens, pruveriens | pruveriiez, pruveriez | pruveroient, pruvereient | |
| 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 | pruisse | pruisses | pruisse, pruist | provons, pruissiens, pruissons | provez, pruissiez | pruissent |
| imperfect | pruvasse | pruvasses | pruvast | pruvissons, pruvissiens | pruvissoiz, pruvissez, pruvissiez | pruvassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | pruisse | — | pruvons | pruvez | — | ||