dissoudre
French
Etymology
From Latin dissolvere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.sudʁ/
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Verb
dissoudre
- (reflexive) to dissolve, break up, separate, disband
- 2018, Zaz, On s'en remet jamais
- Est-ce que tout ce qu'on a pas pu faire va se dissoudre dans le temps ?
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
- 2018, Zaz, On s'en remet jamais
- (transitive) to dissolve, separate, disintegrate, disperse
- (transitive, law) to separate the constituent elements of an institutional group or legal relationship between people, and thus get rid of that group (as a marriage, company, meeting of a National Assembly)
- (transitive, law) to nullify (as a contract)
Conjugation
Conjugation of dissoudre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | dissoudre | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | dissolvant /di.sɔl.vɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | dissous /di.su/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | dissous /di.su/ | dissous /di.su/ | dissout /di.su/ | dissolvons /di.sɔl.vɔ̃/ | dissolvez /di.sɔl.ve/ | dissolvent /di.sɔlv/ |
imperfect | dissolvais /di.sɔl.vɛ/ | dissolvais /di.sɔl.vɛ/ | dissolvait /di.sɔl.vɛ/ | dissolvions /di.sɔl.vjɔ̃/ | dissolviez /di.sɔl.vje/ | dissolvaient /di.sɔl.vɛ/ | |
past historic2 | dissolus /di.sɔ.ly/ | dissolus /di.sɔ.ly/ | dissolut /di.sɔ.ly/ | dissolûmes /di.sɔ.lym/ | dissolûtes /di.sɔ.lyt/ | dissolurent /di.sɔ.lyʁ/ | |
future | dissoudrai /di.su.dʁe/ | dissoudras /di.su.dʁa/ | dissoudra /di.su.dʁa/ | dissoudrons /di.su.dʁɔ̃/ | dissoudrez /di.su.dʁe/ | dissoudront /di.su.dʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | dissoudrais /di.su.dʁɛ/ | dissoudrais /di.su.dʁɛ/ | dissoudrait /di.su.dʁɛ/ | dissoudrions /di.su.dʁi.jɔ̃/ | dissoudriez /di.su.dʁi.je/ | dissoudraient /di.su.dʁɛ/ | |
(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 | dissolve /di.sɔlv/ | dissolves /di.sɔlv/ | dissolve /di.sɔlv/ | dissolvions /di.sɔl.vjɔ̃/ | dissolviez /di.sɔl.vje/ | dissolvent /di.sɔlv/ |
imperfect2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | dissous /di.su/ | — | dissolvons /di.sɔl.vɔ̃/ | dissolvez /di.sɔl.ve/ | — | |
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). |
Further reading
- “dissoudre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.