dessiner
French
Etymology
From Middle French desseigner, borrowed from Italian disegnare, from Latin designo, designare. Doublet of désigner.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.si.ne/
audio (file) - Homophones: dessinai, dessiné, dessinée, dessinés, dessinées
Verb
dessiner
- to draw, to sketch
- to draw up, to design
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, se dessiner) to take shape, to appear slowly
Conjugation
Conjugation of dessiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | dessiner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | dessinant /de.si.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | dessiné /de.si.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | dessine /de.sin/ | dessines /de.sin/ | dessine /de.sin/ | dessinons /de.si.nɔ̃/ | dessinez /de.si.ne/ | dessinent /de.sin/ |
| imperfect | dessinais /de.si.nɛ/ | dessinais /de.si.nɛ/ | dessinait /de.si.nɛ/ | dessinions /de.si.njɔ̃/ | dessiniez /de.si.nje/ | dessinaient /de.si.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | dessinai /de.si.ne/ | dessinas /de.si.na/ | dessina /de.si.na/ | dessinâmes /de.si.nam/ | dessinâtes /de.si.nat/ | dessinèrent /de.si.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | dessinerai /de.sin.ʁe/ | dessineras /de.sin.ʁa/ | dessinera /de.sin.ʁa/ | dessinerons /de.sin.ʁɔ̃/ | dessinerez /de.sin.ʁe/ | dessineront /de.sin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | dessinerais /de.sin.ʁɛ/ | dessinerais /de.sin.ʁɛ/ | dessinerait /de.sin.ʁɛ/ | dessinerions /de.si.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ | dessineriez /de.si.nə.ʁje/ | dessineraient /de.sin.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 | dessine /de.sin/ | dessines /de.sin/ | dessine /de.sin/ | dessinions /de.si.njɔ̃/ | dessiniez /de.si.nje/ | dessinent /de.sin/ |
| imperfect2 | dessinasse /de.si.nas/ | dessinasses /de.si.nas/ | dessinât /de.si.na/ | dessinassions /de.si.na.sjɔ̃/ | dessinassiez /de.si.na.sje/ | dessinassent /de.si.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | dessine /de.sin/ | — | dessinons /de.si.nɔ̃/ | dessinez /de.si.ne/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- bande dessinée
- dessin
Further reading
- “dessiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- rendisse