travestir

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian travestire.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʁa.vɛs.tiʁ/

Verb

travestir

  1. (transitive) to disguise
  2. (reflexive) to dress up (especially in clothes of the opposite sex)
  3. (transitive, pejorative) to travesty (to make a travesty of), distort

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

  Conjugation of travestir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive travestir avoir travesti
gerund en travestissant en ayant travesti
present participle travestissant
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɑ̃/
past participle travesti
/tʁa.vɛs.ti/
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il nous vous ils
simple
tenses		 present travestis
/tʁa.vɛs.ti/		 travestis
/tʁa.vɛs.ti/		 travestit
/tʁa.vɛs.ti/		 travestissons
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɔ̃/		 travestissez
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.se/		 travestissent
/tʁa.vɛs.tis/
imperfect travestissais
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɛ/		 travestissais
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɛ/		 travestissait
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɛ/		 travestissions
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.sjɔ̃/		 travestissiez
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.sje/		 travestissaient
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɛ/
past historic1 travestis
/tʁa.vɛs.ti/		 travestis
/tʁa.vɛs.ti/		 travestit
/tʁa.vɛs.ti/		 travestîmes
/tʁa.vɛs.tim/		 travestîtes
/tʁa.vɛs.tit/		 travestirent
/tʁa.vɛs.tiʁ/
future travestirai
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁe/		 travestiras
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁa/		 travestira
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁa/		 travestirons
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁɔ̃/		 travestirez
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁe/		 travestiront
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁɔ̃/
conditional travestirais
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁɛ/		 travestirais
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁɛ/		 travestirait
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁɛ/		 travestirions
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁjɔ̃/		 travestiriez
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁje/		 travestiraient
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.ʁɛ/
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 anterior1 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 travestisse
/tʁa.vɛs.tis/		 travestisses
/tʁa.vɛs.tis/		 travestisse
/tʁa.vɛs.tis/		 travestissions
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.sjɔ̃/		 travestissiez
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.sje/		 travestissent
/tʁa.vɛs.tis/
imperfect1 travestisse
/tʁa.vɛs.tis/		 travestisses
/tʁa.vɛs.tis/		 travestît
/tʁa.vɛs.ti/		 travestissions
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.sjɔ̃/		 travestissiez
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.sje/		 travestissent
/tʁa.vɛs.tis/
compound
tenses		 past Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect1 Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
— travestis
/tʁa.vɛs.ti/		 — travestissons
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.sɔ̃/		 travestissez
/tʁa.vɛs.ti.se/		 —
1literary tenses

Further reading

Spanish

Verb

travestir

  1. to dress up in drag (as members of the opposite sex)

Conjugation

  • Rule: e weakens to i in certain conjugations.
    Conjugation of travestir (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)edit data
infinitive travestir
gerund travistiendo
past participle masculine feminine
singular travestido travestida
plural travestidos travestidas
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative yo tú
vos		 él/ella/ello
usted		 nosotros
nosotras		 vosotros
vosotras		 ellos/ellas
ustedes
present travisto travistestú
travestísvos		 traviste travestimos travestís travisten
imperfect travestía travestías travestía travestíamos travestíais travestían
preterite travestí travestiste travistió travestimos travestisteis travistieron
future travestiré travestirás travestirá travestiremos travestiréis travestirán
conditional travestiría travestirías travestiría travestiríamos travestiríais travestirían
subjunctive yo tú
vos		 él/ella/ello
usted		 nosotros
nosotras		 vosotros
vosotras		 ellos/ellas
ustedes
present travista travistas travista travistamos travistáis travistan
imperfect
(ra)		 travistiera travistieras travistiera travistiéramos travistierais travistieran
imperfect
(se)		 travistiese travistieses travistiese travistiésemos travistieseis travistiesen
future1 travistiere travistieres travistiere travistiéremos travistiereis travistieren
imperative — tú
vos		 usted nosotros
nosotras		 vosotros
vosotras		 ustedes
affirmative travistetú
travestívos		 travista travistamos travestid travistan
negative no travistas no travista no travistamos no travistáis no travistan
  • 1 Mostly obsolete form, still used in legal jargon and set phrases.

Other verbs with this conjugation:

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