sapuī＞saup, saubísapuĭmus ✱sapwĭ́mu’＞saubẹm
sapuĭstī＞saubístsapuĭstis＞saubẹtz saubẹs
sapuit＞saupsapuĕrunt＞sáubron sáubro, sáupron

1. For saubí, see § [177], (1). For sáupron (sáupra, saupés, saupút), see § [65], P, 3; cf. § [148], (2).

Old Conditional.

185. The old conditional came from the Latin pluperfect indicative, which had been supplanted in its pluperfect sense by a compound form, and was gradually restricted in its use to the functions of a preterit, a perfect conditional, and a simple conditional: see § [141], (2). In Provençal it had only the conditional meaning; and as the new conditional rendered it superfluous, it fell into disuse (with the exception of ágra and fọra) in the 13th and 14th centuries: see § [142], (2).

186. In the fourth conjugation the old conditional comes from the contracted form of the pluperfect (audīram ＜ audīvĕram). Weak verbs of the third conjugation constructed a similar form (✱vendęram). First conjugation verbs started with the contracted pluperfect (amāram ＜ amāvĕram), but in Provençal substituted ę for á, as in the preterit: § [175], (4). The Provençal types of the old conditional of weak verbs are, therefore, represented by: amęra, vendęra, auzíra. The inflection is as follows:—

amęraamerám
amęrasamerátz
amęraamęran
auzíraauzirám
auzírasauzirátz
auzíraauzíran

187. Strong verbs of the -ī and the -uī classes regularly took their old conditional directly from the Latin pluperfect: fēcĕram ＞ fẹira, fŭĕram ＞ fọra, vīdĕram ＞ vira; habŭĕram ✱áβwĕram (§ [16], 2) ＞ ágra, pŏtŭĕram ＞ pǫgra, vŏlŭĕram ＞ vǫlgra, sapŭĕram ＞ sáubra sáupra (§ [65], P, 3). Of course the Latin pluperfect, and therefore the Provençal conditional, followed the shift of the perfect if it changed from one class to another: vēnī ＞ ✱vēnuī, hence ✱vēnŭĕram ＞ vẹngra. The inflection is as follows:—

fọraforámágraagrám
fọrasforátz foráságrasagrátz agrás
fọrafọranágraágran

1. Faire has féra (cf. feron) beside féira.