diviser
French
Etymology
Alteration, based on the Latin etymology, of Old French deviser, itself from a Vulgar Latin *devisāre < *divisāre, from Latin dīvīsum, supine of dīvidō (“I divide”). Compare deviser.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.vi.ze/
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Verb
diviser
- to divide
- (mathematics) to divide
Conjugation
Conjugation of diviser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | diviser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | divisant /di.vi.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | divisé /di.vi.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | divise /di.viz/ | divises /di.viz/ | divise /di.viz/ | divisons /di.vi.zɔ̃/ | divisez /di.vi.ze/ | divisent /di.viz/ |
| imperfect | divisais /di.vi.zɛ/ | divisais /di.vi.zɛ/ | divisait /di.vi.zɛ/ | divisions /di.vi.zjɔ̃/ | divisiez /di.vi.zje/ | divisaient /di.vi.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | divisai /di.vi.ze/ | divisas /di.vi.za/ | divisa /di.vi.za/ | divisâmes /di.vi.zam/ | divisâtes /di.vi.zat/ | divisèrent /di.vi.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | diviserai /di.viz.ʁe/ | diviseras /di.viz.ʁa/ | divisera /di.viz.ʁa/ | diviserons /di.viz.ʁɔ̃/ | diviserez /di.viz.ʁe/ | diviseront /di.viz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | diviserais /di.viz.ʁɛ/ | diviserais /di.viz.ʁɛ/ | diviserait /di.viz.ʁɛ/ | diviserions /di.vi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ | diviseriez /di.vi.zə.ʁje/ | diviseraient /di.viz.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 | divise /di.viz/ | divises /di.viz/ | divise /di.viz/ | divisions /di.vi.zjɔ̃/ | divisiez /di.vi.zje/ | divisent /di.viz/ |
| imperfect2 | divisasse /di.vi.zas/ | divisasses /di.vi.zas/ | divisât /di.vi.za/ | divisassions /di.vi.za.sjɔ̃/ | divisassiez /di.vi.za.sje/ | divisassent /di.vi.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | divise /di.viz/ | — | divisons /di.vi.zɔ̃/ | divisez /di.vi.ze/ | — | |
| 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
- diviseur
- divisibilité
- divisible
- indivisible
- division
- divisionnaire
- divisionnisme
- divisionniste
Further reading
- “diviser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.