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From Old French deveir (French devoir), from Latin debere ‘to owe’.
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Singular |
Plural |
devoir (plural devoirs)
Old French deveir, from Latin debere ‘must’.
devoir m. (plural devoirs)
devoir
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | devoir | avoir dû | |||||
| gerund | en devant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | devant | ||||||
| past participle | dû | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | dois | dois | doit | devons | devez | doivent |
| imperfect | devais | devais | devait | devions | deviez | devaient | |
| past historic | dus | dus | dut | dûmes | dûtes | durent | |
| future | devrai | devras | devra | devrons | devrez | devront | |
| conditional | devrais | devrais | devrait | devrions | devriez | devraient | |
| 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 past historic 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 je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | doive | doives | doive | devions | deviez | doivent |
| imperfect | dusse | dusses | dût | dussions | dussiez | dussent | |
| 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 | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | dois | — | devons | devez | — | ||
