FOURTH CONJUGATION IN RE, REGULAR. The conjugation in re comprises about 250 verbs, simple or compound, of which 55 belong to the regular conjugation. All the verbs of this conjugation belong to the dead or ancient conjugation. They are conjugated on the same principle as the verbs of other conjugations in dropping the final e mute of the Infinitive to form the Future and the Conditional by adding ai, ais, as in verbs ending by a consonant. There is a great similarity between verbs of the ancient or dead conjugation re, oir, and is not inchoative. They are similar by the termination in many of their tenses. The only difference between some verbs of the conjugations re and oir is in the Infinitive. The differences shown by those two conjugations are chiefly in the stem. This is the reason why some grammarians make hardly any difference between the conjugations re and oir, saying that there are but three conjugations, of which Brachet has given, in his grammar, a table corresponding to the Latin conjugations. The conjugation in re, being obliged to borrow its terminations from the 3d and 2d, was the first to disappear, and it has now really no other tenses but the Infinitive belonging to it. Notice the absolute similarity of the Past Definite and Past Imperfect Subjunctive in the 4th and 2d conjugations. See Part I., § 17, table of the terminations of the four conjugations. DERIVATIVE TENSES. Rendre, to render, to give back, to deliver, to return, to restore, to surrender, etc. Notice that the e is dropped in bringing down the Infinitive to form All regular verbs of the 4th conjugation are conjugated after this manner, and the complete list of every one of them is to be found in the next page. All regular verbs of this conjugation end in the Infinitive in From the termination endre you must except Prendre (to take) and its compounds. See pages 101 and 129 for this verb. ondre (continued) Ret ondre to shear again. Surt ondre to clip. Tondre to shear. Tréf ondre to solder, to fuse ore. endre Attendre to wait. S'attendre to expect, to wait for one another. Défendre to defend. Se défendre to defend oneself. Dépendre to depend, to unhang. Desc endre to descend, to come down. Dét endre to unbend, to slacken. Se détendre to unbend, to relax oneself. Dist endre to distend. Entendre to hear. S'entendre to be heard, to understand. Entr'ent endre to make an agreement. S'entr'ent endre to act in concert. Ét endre to stretch, to lay down. S'étendre to stretch oneself, to sprawl. Fendre to cleave, to split. Se fendre to split, to chop. Pendre to hang. Se pendre to hang oneself. Pourf endre to cleave in two. Prét endre to pretend. Ratt endre to wait again for. Redesc endre to come down again. Ref endre to split, to cleave again. Rep endre to hang again. Ret endre to bend, to stretch again. Se suspendre to suspend oneself. Se tendre to be stretched out. Se v endre to betray, to be sold. List of Verbs of the 4th Conjugation having a circumflex accent over the ↑ of |