étriver

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French estriver, from Frankish *strīban, from Proto-Germanic *strībaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.tʁi.ve/

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Verb

étriver

1. (nautical, transitive) to tie together two ropes with a third

Conjugation

Conjugation of étriver (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	étriver
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	étrivant /e.tʁi.vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		étrivé /e.tʁi.ve/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	étrive /e.tʁiv/	étrives /e.tʁiv/	étrive /e.tʁiv/	étrivons /e.tʁi.vɔ̃/	étrivez /e.tʁi.ve/	étrivent /e.tʁiv/
	imperfect	étrivais /e.tʁi.vɛ/	étrivais /e.tʁi.vɛ/	étrivait /e.tʁi.vɛ/	étrivions /e.tʁi.vjɔ̃/	étriviez /e.tʁi.vje/	étrivaient /e.tʁi.vɛ/
	past historic2	étrivai /e.tʁi.ve/	étrivas /e.tʁi.va/	étriva /e.tʁi.va/	étrivâmes /e.tʁi.vam/	étrivâtes /e.tʁi.vat/	étrivèrent /e.tʁi.vɛʁ/
	future	étriverai /e.tʁi.vʁe/	étriveras /e.tʁi.vʁa/	étrivera /e.tʁi.vʁa/	étriverons /e.tʁi.vʁɔ̃/	étriverez /e.tʁi.vʁe/	étriveront /e.tʁi.vʁɔ̃/
	conditional	étriverais /e.tʁi.vʁɛ/	étriverais /e.tʁi.vʁɛ/	étriverait /e.tʁi.vʁɛ/	étriverions /e.tʁi.və.ʁjɔ̃/	étriveriez /e.tʁi.və.ʁje/	étriveraient /e.tʁi.vʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	étrive /e.tʁiv/	étrives /e.tʁiv/	étrive /e.tʁiv/	étrivions /e.tʁi.vjɔ̃/	étriviez /e.tʁi.vje/	étrivent /e.tʁiv/
	imperfect2	étrivasse /e.tʁi.vas/	étrivasses /e.tʁi.vas/	étrivât /e.tʁi.va/	étrivassions /e.tʁi.va.sjɔ̃/	étrivassiez /e.tʁi.va.sje/	étrivassent /e.tʁi.vas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	étrive /e.tʁiv/	—	étrivons /e.tʁi.vɔ̃/	étrivez /e.tʁi.ve/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “étriver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• revêtir