Contrefaire.

THE FOLLOWING ARE

VERBS CONJUGATED LIKE FAIRE.

To counterfeit.

Défaire. To undo.

Défaire.

To defeat.

Refaire.

To do again.
Satisfaire.

To please.

Satisfaire.
To satisfy.
Surfaire.

To ask too much.

Il a été pendu pour avoir contrefait des billets de
banque.

He was hanged for counterfeiting bank-notes.
Vous défaites tout ce que je fais.

You undo all that I do.

Nous défimes l'ennemi avec un grand carnage.
We defeated the enemy with great slaughter.
Il est inutile de le refaire.

It is useless to do it again.

C'est un homme qui satisfait tous ceux qui ont affaire avec lui.

He is a man that pleases all those who deal with
him.

Il n'a satisfait aucun de ses créanciers.
He has not satisfied any of his creditors.
Ce marchand vous a surfait de moitié.
This shopkeeper asked you too much by half.

THE FOLLOWING ARE

VERBS CONJUGATED LIKE ECRIRE.

Circonscrire.

To limit, to cir

cumscribe.

Décrire.

To describe.

Inscrire.

Dieu ne se peut circonscrire ni par les lieux ni par les temps.

God cannot be circumscribed either by place or time.

Il a fort bien décrit ce pays-là.

He has very well described that country.

Je vous inscrirai sur mon livre.

To set down, to I will set you down (or enter you) on my book.

enter.

Prescrire.

To prescribe.
Proscrire.

To proscribe.

Récrire.

To write again.
Souscrire.
To subscribe.
Transcrire.

To transcribe.

Prescrivez-moi ce que vous voulez que je fasse.
Prescribe what you wish me to do.

Il a été proscrit pendant la tyrannie de Robespierre.
He was proscribed during the tyranny of Robes-
pierre.

Dites au commis de lui récrire. ♦

Tell the clerk to write to him again.

Je souscrivis pour dix exemplaires de cet ouvrage.
I subscribed for ten copies of this work.
Avez-vous transcrit toutes mes lettres ?
Did you transcribe all my letters?

EIGHTH AND LAST CLASS,

EXEMPLIFIED IN DIRE, TO SAY, OR TO TELL.

The following are conjugated like dire, except the second person plural of the indicative present, and the same person of the imperative of the seven first verbs, where isez, instead of ites, is the termination.

Confire.
To pickle.
Confire.

To preserve.
Contredire.

To contradict.

Se dédire.

Avez-vous confit des concombres cette année-ci?

Did you pickle any cucumbers this year?

Elle est occupée maintenant à confire du fruit.
She is now busy in preserving fruit.

Vous me contredisez toujours.

You always contradict me.

Les témoins se sont dédits de ce qu'ils avaient dit d'abord.

To disown, to The witnesses have disowned (or recanted) what

recant.

Interdire.

To forbid.
Médire.
To slander.
Prédire.

To foretell.

Redire.

they first said.

On lui a interdit l'entrée de la ville.
They have forbid his entering the city.
Vous médisez trop de votre prochain.
You slander your neighbour too much.
Je lui ai prédit ce qui lui est arrivé.
I foretold him what has befallen him.
·Redites ce que vous avez entendu.

To tell again, to Repeat (or tell again) what you have heard.
repeat.

OF THE IRREGULAR VERBS WHICH CANNOT BE

CLASSED.

We present the scholar with the respective conjugations of those verbs which, from their extreme irregularity, would not admit of being classed among the verbs, whose conjugations we have just exhibited. In order to take up as little room as possible, we shall only give the tenses that are chiefly formed by a deviation from analogy; of each of those in which this law is observed, we need only mention the first person, as the pupil will certainly be able, from the knowledge he has now acquired of the French conjugation, to supply the persons omitted.

Je m'assieds, tu t'assieds, il s'as- (Je bois, tu bois, il boit;