adober
Catalan
    
    
Pronunciation
    
Derived terms
    
Related terms
    
- adobador
Further reading
    
- “adober”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
Old French
    
    
Etymology
    
From a- + a Germanic root related to Proto-Germanic *dubilaz (“peg, dowel”).
Verb
    
adober
- to dub (to bestow the title of knight upon)
- c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:- Ot adobé li rois Artus
 Quatre çanz chevaliers et plus- King Arthur knighted
 More than 400 knights
 
- King Arthur knighted
 
 
- to equip
- (reflexive, s'adober) to equip oneself
Conjugation
    
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-b, *-bs, *-bt are modified to p, s, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | adober | avoir adobé | |||||
| gerund | en adobant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
| present participle | adobant | ||||||
| past participle | adobé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses | present | adop | adobes | adobe | adobons | adobez | adobent | 
| imperfect | adoboie, adobeie, adoboe, adobeve | adoboies, adobeies, adoboes, adobeves | adoboit, adobeit, adobot, adobeve | adobiiens, adobiens | adobiiez, adobiez | adoboient, adobeient, adoboent, adobevent | |
| preterite | adobai | adobas | adoba | adobames | adobastes | adoberent | |
| future | adoberai | adoberas | adobera | adoberons | adoberoiz, adobereiz, adoberez | adoberont | |
| conditional | adoberoie, adobereie | adoberoies, adobereies | adoberoit, adobereit | adoberiiens, adoberiens | adoberiiez, adoberiez | adoberoient, adobereient | |
| compound tenses | present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses | present | adop | ados | adot | adobons | adobez | adobent | 
| imperfect | adobasse | adobasses | adobast | adobissons, adobissiens | adobissoiz, adobissez, adobissiez | adobassent | |
| compound tenses | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | adobe | — | adobons | adobez | — | ||
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