First-group verb

Conjugation in Provençal

Conjugation of the verb caia

caia

Source: Conseil de l'Écrit Mistralien

Every form of the conjugation of the Provençal verb caia comes from the official conjugator of the Conseil de l'Écrit Mistralien. No form has been extrapolated.

The forms below are in Rhodanian Provençal. In Maritime Provençal, the first person singular takes -i: for example cante becomes canti in the present, and cantave becomes cantavi in the imperfect.

Indicative

Present

1st pers. sing.caie
2nd pers. sing.caies
3rd pers. sing.caio
1st pers. plur.caian
2nd pers. plur.caias
3rd pers. plur.caion

Imperfect

1st pers. sing.caiave
2nd pers. sing.caiaves
3rd pers. sing.caiavo
1st pers. plur.caiavian
2nd pers. plur.caiavias
3rd pers. plur.caiavon

Preterite

1st pers. sing.caière
2nd pers. sing.caières
3rd pers. sing.caiè
1st pers. plur.caierian
2nd pers. plur.caierias
3rd pers. plur.caièron

Future

1st pers. sing.caiarai
2nd pers. sing.caiaras
3rd pers. sing.caiara
1st pers. plur.caiaren
2nd pers. plur.caiarés
3rd pers. plur.caiaran

Conditional

Present

1st pers. sing.caiariéu
2nd pers. sing.caiariés
3rd pers. sing.caiarié
1st pers. plur.caiarian
2nd pers. plur.caiarias
3rd pers. plur.caiarien

Subjunctive

Present

1st pers. sing.caie
2nd pers. sing.caies
3rd pers. sing.caie
1st pers. plur.caien
2nd pers. plur.caiés
3rd pers. plur.caion

Imperfect

1st pers. sing.caièsse
2nd pers. sing.caièsses
3rd pers. sing.caièsse
1st pers. plur.caiessian
2nd pers. plur.caiessias
3rd pers. plur.caièsson

Imperative

Present

2nd pers. sing.caio
1st pers. plur.caien
2nd pers. plur.caias

Non-finite forms

Present participle

caiant

Past participle

Masculinecaia
Femininecaiado

Infinitive

caia

Note: in Provençal, the past participle never takes -i in the plural; it agrees only in gender (masculine / feminine).