vêtiez

Vêtiez is a French verb form of vêtir (to clothe, to dress). It is the second-person plural (vous) form and can correspond to two different moods and tenses: the imparfait de l’indicatif (vous vêtiez — “you were dressing” / “you used to dress”) and the présent du subjonctif (que vous vêtiez — “that you dress” / “that you put on”), the intended meaning being determined by context. The written form features a circumflex over the first e and is pronounced /vɛtje/.

Vêtir is an irregular verb derived from Latin vestire; its past participle is vêtu and it is commonly used transitively (vêtir quelqu’un, vêtir un vêtement). Because the vous form vêtiez is identical in spelling for both imparfait and subjunctive présent, readers and speakers rely on surrounding words and clause structure to disambiguate voice and tense. Examples: Vous vêtiez l’enfant chaque matin (imparfait — “You used to dress the child every morning”) and Il faut que vous vêtiez l’uniforme pour la cérémonie (subjonctif — “It is necessary that you wear the uniform for the ceremony”).

The form appears in literary and everyday registers and follows French agreement and auxiliary rules when used in compound tenses (e.g., vous aviez vêtu for pluperfect).