priver

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prīvāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁi.ve/

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Verb

priver

1. to deprive
   • 2004 January 16, “Éditorial : Un cautère sur une jambe de bois”, in Aujourd'hui‎:

     D’où cette fuite des cerveaux vers des cieux plus cléments qui prive le Maroc de ses meilleurs cadres dans les secteurs les plus névralgiques pour l’économie nationale.

     Hence this brain drain to more clement climes which deprives Morocco of its best executives in the most sensitive sectors of the national economy.

Conjugation

Conjugation of priver (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	priver
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	privant /pʁi.vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		privé /pʁi.ve/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	prive /pʁiv/	prives /pʁiv/	prive /pʁiv/	privons /pʁi.vɔ̃/	privez /pʁi.ve/	privent /pʁiv/
	imperfect	privais /pʁi.vɛ/	privais /pʁi.vɛ/	privait /pʁi.vɛ/	privions /pʁi.vjɔ̃/	priviez /pʁi.vje/	privaient /pʁi.vɛ/
	past historic2	privai /pʁi.ve/	privas /pʁi.va/	priva /pʁi.va/	privâmes /pʁi.vam/	privâtes /pʁi.vat/	privèrent /pʁi.vɛʁ/
	future	priverai /pʁi.vʁe/	priveras /pʁi.vʁa/	privera /pʁi.vʁa/	priverons /pʁi.vʁɔ̃/	priverez /pʁi.vʁe/	priveront /pʁi.vʁɔ̃/
	conditional	priverais /pʁi.vʁɛ/	priverais /pʁi.vʁɛ/	priverait /pʁi.vʁɛ/	priverions /pʁi.və.ʁjɔ̃/	priveriez /pʁi.və.ʁje/	priveraient /pʁi.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	prive /pʁiv/	prives /pʁiv/	prive /pʁiv/	privions /pʁi.vjɔ̃/	priviez /pʁi.vje/	privent /pʁiv/
	imperfect2	privasse /pʁi.vas/	privasses /pʁi.vas/	privât /pʁi.va/	privassions /pʁi.va.sjɔ̃/	privassiez /pʁi.va.sje/	privassent /pʁi.vas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	prive /pʁiv/	—	privons /pʁi.vɔ̃/	privez /pʁi.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).

Related terms

• privation
• privé

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

prīver

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of prīvō