trahir
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French trahir < Old French traïr, itself from Latin trādō 'betray'.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁa.iʁ/
- Hyphenation: tra‧hir
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Verb
trahir
- to betray
- Ils ne doivent pas trahir la confiance que nous avons placée en eux en commettant des actes de violence aveugle.
- They mustn't betray the trust we've placed in them by committing indiscriminate acts of violence.
- to give away, to reveal
- Son regard trahissait sa réprobation.
- His expression gave away his disapproval.
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of trahir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | trahir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | trahissant /tʁa.i.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | trahi /tʁa.i/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | trahis /tʁa.i/ |
trahis /tʁa.i/ |
trahit /tʁa.i/ |
trahissons /tʁa.i.sɔ̃/ |
trahissez /tʁa.i.se/ |
trahissent /tʁa.is/ |
| imperfect | trahissais /tʁa.i.sɛ/ |
trahissais /tʁa.i.sɛ/ |
trahissait /tʁa.i.sɛ/ |
trahissions /tʁa.i.sjɔ̃/ |
trahissiez /tʁa.i.sje/ |
trahissaient /tʁa.i.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | trahis /tʁa.i/ |
trahis /tʁa.i/ |
trahit /tʁa.i/ |
trahîmes /tʁa.im/ |
trahîtes /tʁa.it/ |
trahirent /tʁa.iʁ/ | |
| future | trahirai /tʁa.i.ʁe/ |
trahiras /tʁa.i.ʁa/ |
trahira /tʁa.i.ʁa/ |
trahirons /tʁa.i.ʁɔ̃/ |
trahirez /tʁa.i.ʁe/ |
trahiront /tʁa.i.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | trahirais /tʁa.i.ʁɛ/ |
trahirais /tʁa.i.ʁɛ/ |
trahirait /tʁa.i.ʁɛ/ |
trahirions /tʁa.i.ʁjɔ̃/ |
trahiriez /tʁa.i.ʁje/ |
trahiraient /tʁa.i.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | trahisse /tʁa.is/ |
trahisses /tʁa.is/ |
trahisse /tʁa.is/ |
trahissions /tʁa.i.sjɔ̃/ |
trahissiez /tʁa.i.sje/ |
trahissent /tʁa.is/ |
| imperfect2 | trahisse /tʁa.is/ |
trahisses /tʁa.is/ |
trahît /tʁa.i/ |
trahissions /tʁa.i.sjɔ̃/ |
trahissiez /tʁa.i.sje/ |
trahissent /tʁa.is/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | trahis /tʁa.i/ |
— | trahissons /tʁa.i.sɔ̃/ |
trahissez /tʁa.i.se/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “trahir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
Verb
trahir
- Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of trair.
Conjugation
This verb needs an inflection-table template.