SUBJ. Pres. je confise,

nous confisions, vous confisiez,

Imp. je confisse,

qu'il confise; qu'ils confisent.

ils confisent..

tu confisses, il confît;

nous confissions, vous confissiez, ils confissent.

Some authors give no Imperfect Subjunctive to this verb, and prefer having recourse to a circumlocution, and say, Je voudrais que vous FISSIEZ CONFIRE des prunes, rather than je voudrais que vous confissiez des prunes, I wish you would preserve some plums.

Suffire, to suffice, to be sufficient, is conjugated like confire; but its Participle past is suffi, which has no feminine.

EXERCISE LXXXIX.

I shall preserve some fruits this year. -Will you preserve

année f.

pr. art. pêchef.

Little

Peu de bien

brandy-Preserve

pounds a year suffice him for his maintenance.

livres sterling par an m.

sugar or with

art. eau-de-vie f. peaches.-Have you pickled any

suffices to the wise.-A hundred

subsistance f.

-(Here are) three thousand francs, will that

sum somme f.

connaissons,

connaissez,

qu'il connaisse ;

qu'ils connaissent.

SUBJ.

je connaisse,

Pres.

nous connaissions,

Imp. je connusse,

vous connaîtriez, ils connaîtraient.

tu connaisses, il connaisse ;

vous connaissiez, ils connaissent. tu connusses, il connût ;

nous connussions, vous connussiez, ils connussent. [See page 133, our Remarks on Savoir and Connaître.]

Conjugate in the same manner :

Disparaître, to disappear. reconnaître, to know again.

paraître,

to appear.

reparaître, to appear again.

EXERCISE XC.

I know him perfectly.

parfaitement

faille m.

-He knows his (weak side).—

We know nobody in this neighbourhood.-Do you know our

voisinage m.

house?-He knew me by my voice. I would know him

à * art. voix f.

among a thousand.-The compass was not known by the

entre

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boussole f.

pl.

de

ancients. At the approach of our troops,the enemy disappeared. approche f. you are wrong. You do not appear

-It seems

paraître que avoir tort

convinced. Do you not recognise me?-Do they acknowledge convaincu

reconnaître

their errors ?—He knew his horse again.

reconnaître

Imp. je cousisse,

tu cousisses,

il cousît;

nous cousions,

nous cousissions, vous cousissiez, ils cousissent.

Découdre, to unsew, and recoudre, to sew again, are conjugated in the same manner.

CRAINDRE, TO FEAR.

Part. Pres. craignant.

Part. Past. craint, m., crainte, f.

IND. Pres. Je crains,

nous craignons,

Imp. Je craignais,
nous craignions,

Pret. Je craignis,
nous craignîmes,

vous craignîtes,

ils craignirent.

Fut. Je craindrai, tu craindras, il craindra;

nous craindrons, vous craindrez, ils craindront. COND. Pres. Je craindrais, tu craindrais, il craindrait ; nous craindrions, vous craindriez, ils craindraient.

IMPER.

craignons,

crains,
craignez,

qu'il craigne ;

qu'ils craignent.

SUBJ.Pres. je craigne,

tu craignes, il craigne;

nous craignions, vous craigniez, ils craignent. Imp. je craignisse, tu craignisses, il craignît;

nous craignissions, vous craignissiez, ils craignissent. Conjugate after the same manner all verbs ending in aindre and oindre; as, plaindre, to pity, and joindre, to join. When plaindre is used reflectedly, it signifies to complain: Je vous plains, mais JE ne ME PLAINS pas de vous, I pity you, but I do not complain of you.

EXERCISE XCI.

That girl sews well.-My sisters were sewing all yesterday.

Sew a button on this waistcoat. That is badly sewed.

tailleur

mal

His coat was torn, but his tailor sewed it again very neatly.habit m. déchiré proprement He is afraid of being discovered.-He was a man who feared craindre d' inf-I découvert C" nothing. I pity his family.-He complains without cause.— famille f. se plaindre

ind-2

sujet

They were always complaining.-They united their efforts.

2toujours

Let us unite

art.

lind-2

joindre

m.

nous croyions, vous croyiez,
Imp. je crusse,
tu crusses,

il croie ;

ils croient.

il crût;

ils crussent.

nous crussions, vous crussiez, REMARK.-Some people put the preposition de after the verb croire, when followed by an infinitive; but this is contrary to the best writers and good usage; we must say: j'ai cru bien faire, and not j'ai cru DE bien faire, I thought I was doing well.

(Féraud, Girault-Duvivier, etc.)

tu croisses,

croissons,

je croisse,

qu'il croisse ; qu'ils croissent. il croisse ;

SUBJ. Pres. nous croissions, vous croissiez, ils croissent.

Imp. je crûsse, tu crûsses,

nous crûssions, vous crûssiez,

il crût ;

ils crûssent.

Conjugate in the same manner, accroitre, to increase,

and décroître, to decrease.

Accru, and décru, past Participles of accroître and décroître, are written without any accent.-(Acad.)

to gain his law-suit. They thought they heard some cries.—

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ind-3

*

inf-1

cri m.