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THE FOLLOWING ARE

VERBS CONJUGATED LIKE CRAINDRE.

Astreindre.

Il m'a astreint à le faire.

To oblige, to force. He has obliged (or forced) me to do it.

Ceindre.
To gird.
Enceindre.
To inclose.
Contraindre.
To force.
Enfreindre.
To infringe.
Feindre.

To pretend.
Joindre.
To join.
Déjoindre.
To disjoin.
Enjoindre.
To order.

Peindre.

Vous ne savez pas ceindre une épée.

You do not know how to gird on a sword.
Il a fait enceindre ses champs de fossés.

He caused his fields to be inclosed with ditches.
Je le contraignis à m'obéir.

I forced him to obey me.

Ils ont les premiers enfreint le traité.
They have first infringed the treaty.
Je feignais de ne point l'écouter.
I pretended not to hear him.

J'ai entendu dire qu'il n'avait pu le joindre.
I heard that he could not join him.
Ces planches sont toutes déjointes.
These boards are quite disjoined.
Je lui enjoignis de garder le silence.
I ordered him to keep silence.
Il a peint toute la famille.

To draw, to paint. He has drawn (or painted) the whole family

Restreindre.

To limit.

Teindre.

To dye

Se déteindre.

To lose colour.
Eteindre.

Je l'ai restreint un peu dans sa dépense.
I have limited him a little in his expense.

Je ferai teindre cet habit en noir

I will have this coat dyed black.

Ne craignez-vous pas qu'il ne se déteigne?
Are you not afraid that it will lose its colour?
N'éteignez pas encore la chandelle.

To extinguish, or Do not put the candle out yet.

put out. Atteindre.

Je ne saurais l'atteindre.

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Mésoffrir.

THE FOLLOWING ARE

VERBS CONJUGATED LIKE OFFRIR.

To undervalue.

Couvrir.

To cover.
Découvrir.
To discover.
Recouvrir.
To cover again.
Ouvrir.

To open.
Entr'ouvrir.

To open a little.
Rouvrir.

To open again.
Souffrir.
To suffer.

Vous n'aurez pas ce drap; vous en mésoffrez trop. You shall not have this cloth; you undervalue it too much.

Les charpentiers n'ont pas encore couvert ma
maison.

The carpenters have not yet covered my house.
On a découvert son dessein à temps.
They have discovered his design in time.
Recouvrez-le, ou bien il se refroidira.
Cover it again, or else it will grow cold.
Je vous défends de lui ouvrir la porte.
I forbid you to open the door to him.

J'avais laissé une des fenêtres de la salle entr'ou

verte.

I had left one of the parlour-windows opened a little.
Je n'ai jamais pu rouvrir le buffet,

I could never open the cupboard again.

Vous avez eu tort de souffrir une pareille insolence.
You were wrong to suffer such a piece of insolence.

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Accourir.
To run to.
Concourir.
To concur.

Discourir.

THE FOLLOWING ARE

VERBS CONJUGATED LIKE COURIR.

To discourse.
Encourir.
To incur.

Parcourir.

To over-run.

Il accourut en hâte à son secours.
He ran in haste to his assistance.
Tout a concouru à sa perte.

Every thing concurred to his loss (disadvantage, or
ruin).

Il discourut sur l'immortalité de l'ame.

He discoursed on the immortality of the soul.
Il a encouru la peine prononcée par la loi.

He has incurred the penalty pronounced by the
law.

Il parcourra toute l'Europe.

He will over-run all Europe.

Recourir.

To have recourse

to. Secourir. To succour.

Je ne recourrai pas à lui dans non malheur,
I will not have recourse to him in my misfortune.

Il faut secourir ses amis dans le besoin.
We must succour our friends in need.

THIRD CLASS, AS CONNAÎTRE, TO KNOW.

INFINITIVE AND PARTICIPLES.

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Conn-aîtrais, aîtrais, aîtrait. | Conn-aîtrions, aîtriez, aîtraient.

SUBJUNCTIVE.

qu'il ou elle Que nous que vous qu'ils ou elles

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Croître.

THE FOLLOWING ARE

VERBS CONJUGATED LIKE CONNAÎTRE.

To grow.
Accroître.
To increase.
Décroître.
To decrease.
Paraître, appa-

raître.
To appear.
Disparaitre.
To disappear.
Comparaître.
To appear.
Méconnaître.
Not to know
again, to forget (
Reconnaître.
To remember.

Reconnaître.

Cette pluie a bien fait croître les blés.
This rain has made the corn grow very fast.
Il a par son économie accru de beaucoup son revenu,
By his economy, he has much increased his income.
Les jours commencent déjà à décroître.
The days already begin to decrease.
Dieu apparut plusieurs fois à Moise.

God appeared several times to Moses.
Il disparut aussitôt de la ville.

He disappeared immediately from the town.
Il n'a pas osé comparaître devant ses juges.
He did not dare to appear before his judges.
Il est devenu si gros que tout le monde l'a méconnu
He is become so lusty that nobody knows him again
Je l'ai reconnu du premier abord.

I remembered him at first sight.

Toute l'Europe reconnut l'indépendance des Etats

Unis.

To acknowledge. All Europe acknowledged the independence of the United States.

FOURTH CLASS, AS METTRE, TO PUT
INFINITIVE AND PARTICIPLES.

To put, mettre. Putting, mettant. Put, mis.

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