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movoir
movoir
Old French
Alternative forms
Verb
movoir
- (transitive, intransitive) to move
- 1303, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine):
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Item tu dois scavoir que les humeurs grosses se meuvent plus de nuit pour la forte chaleur
- Also you must know that the thick humors move more at night because of the strong heat
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Item tu dois scavoir que les humeurs grosses se meuvent plus de nuit pour la forte chaleur
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- to cause, set in motion
- to move, introduce (an argument, etc.)
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem muev distinct from the unstressed stem mov, 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 movoir (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | movoir | avoir meü, meu | |||||
| gerund | en movant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | movant | ||||||
| past participle | meü, meu | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | muef | mues | muet | movons | movez | muevent |
| imperfect | movoie, moveie | movoies, moveies | movoit, moveit | moviiens, moviens | moviiez, moviez | movoient, moveient | |
| preterite | mui | meüs | mut | meümes | meüstes | murent | |
| future | movrai | movras | movra | movrons | movroiz, movreiz, movrez | movront | |
| conditional | movroie, movreie | movroies, movreies | movroit, movreit | movriiens, movriens | movriiez, movriez | movroient, movreient | |
| 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 | mueve | mueves | mueve | movons | movez | muevent |
| imperfect | meüsse | meüsses | meüst | meüssons, meüssiens | meüssoiz, meüssez, meüssiez | meüssent | |
| 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 | – | |
| — | muef | — | movons | movez | — | ||
Related terms
Descendants
Noun
movoir m (oblique plural movoirs, nominative singular movoirs, nominative plural movoir)