désunir
See also: desunir
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.zy.niʁ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -iʁ
Verb
désunir
- to disunite, to separate, to divide
- 1945, “Les feuilles mortes”, Jacques Prévert (lyrics), Joseph Kosma (music):
- Et la mer efface sur le sable / les pas des amants désunis
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of désunir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | désunir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | désunissant /de.zy.ni.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | désuni /de.zy.ni/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | désunis /de.zy.ni/ |
désunis /de.zy.ni/ |
désunit /de.zy.ni/ |
désunissons /de.zy.ni.sɔ̃/ |
désunissez /de.zy.ni.se/ |
désunissent /de.zy.nis/ |
| imperfect | désunissais /de.zy.ni.sɛ/ |
désunissais /de.zy.ni.sɛ/ |
désunissait /de.zy.ni.sɛ/ |
désunissions /de.zy.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
désunissiez /de.zy.ni.sje/ |
désunissaient /de.zy.ni.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | désunis /de.zy.ni/ |
désunis /de.zy.ni/ |
désunit /de.zy.ni/ |
désunîmes /de.zy.nim/ |
désunîtes /de.zy.nit/ |
désunirent /de.zy.niʁ/ | |
| future | désunirai /de.zy.ni.ʁe/ |
désuniras /de.zy.ni.ʁa/ |
désunira /de.zy.ni.ʁa/ |
désunirons /de.zy.ni.ʁɔ̃/ |
désunirez /de.zy.ni.ʁe/ |
désuniront /de.zy.ni.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | désunirais /de.zy.ni.ʁɛ/ |
désunirais /de.zy.ni.ʁɛ/ |
désunirait /de.zy.ni.ʁɛ/ |
désunirions /de.zy.ni.ʁjɔ̃/ |
désuniriez /de.zy.ni.ʁje/ |
désuniraient /de.zy.ni.ʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | désunisse /de.zy.nis/ |
désunisses /de.zy.nis/ |
désunisse /de.zy.nis/ |
désunissions /de.zy.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
désunissiez /de.zy.ni.sje/ |
désunissent /de.zy.nis/ |
| imperfect2 | désunisse /de.zy.nis/ |
désunisses /de.zy.nis/ |
désunît /de.zy.ni/ |
désunissions /de.zy.ni.sjɔ̃/ |
désunissiez /de.zy.ni.sje/ |
désunissent /de.zy.nis/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | désunis /de.zy.ni/ |
— | désunissons /de.zy.ni.sɔ̃/ |
désunissez /de.zy.ni.se/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “désunir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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