délester
French
Etymology
From dé- + lester.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.lɛs.te/
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Verb
délester
- (transitive) to unballast, to remove ballast from (a ship, balloon, etc.)
- (transitive, figuratively)
- délester une route ― to divert traffic from a road, to reduce congestion on a road
- (informal, ditransitive, with the indirect object taking de) to rid of
- 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 2, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:
- J’avais l’impression, fugitive, de m’élever. D’approcher d’une sorte de magie du verbe, délesté de toute scorie, de tout gras.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
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- (informal, ditransitive, with the indirect object taking de) to rob (to relieve someone of something of value)
- délester une vieille dame de ses bijoux ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- (reflexive, transitive with de) to get rid of, to cast off
- (reflexive, figuratively, transitive with de) to get rid of, to unburden oneself of, to relieve oneself of
Conjugation
Conjugation of délester (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | délester | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | délestant /de.lɛs.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | délesté /de.lɛs.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | déleste /de.lɛst/ | délestes /de.lɛst/ | déleste /de.lɛst/ | délestons /de.lɛs.tɔ̃/ | délestez /de.lɛs.te/ | délestent /de.lɛst/ |
| imperfect | délestais /de.lɛs.tɛ/ | délestais /de.lɛs.tɛ/ | délestait /de.lɛs.tɛ/ | délestions /de.lɛs.tjɔ̃/ | délestiez /de.lɛs.tje/ | délestaient /de.lɛs.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | délestai /de.lɛs.te/ | délestas /de.lɛs.ta/ | délesta /de.lɛs.ta/ | délestâmes /de.lɛs.tam/ | délestâtes /de.lɛs.tat/ | délestèrent /de.lɛs.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | délesterai /de.lɛs.tə.ʁe/ | délesteras /de.lɛs.tə.ʁa/ | délestera /de.lɛs.tə.ʁa/ | délesterons /de.lɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | délesterez /de.lɛs.tə.ʁe/ | délesteront /de.lɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | délesterais /de.lɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ | délesterais /de.lɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ | délesterait /de.lɛs.tə.ʁɛ/ | délesterions /de.lɛs.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | délesteriez /de.lɛs.tə.ʁje/ | délesteraient /de.lɛs.tə.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 | déleste /de.lɛst/ | délestes /de.lɛst/ | déleste /de.lɛst/ | délestions /de.lɛs.tjɔ̃/ | délestiez /de.lɛs.tje/ | délestent /de.lɛst/ |
| imperfect2 | délestasse /de.lɛs.tas/ | délestasses /de.lɛs.tas/ | délestât /de.lɛs.ta/ | délestassions /de.lɛs.ta.sjɔ̃/ | délestassiez /de.lɛs.ta.sje/ | délestassent /de.lɛs.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | déleste /de.lɛst/ | — | délestons /de.lɛs.tɔ̃/ | délestez /de.lɛs.te/ | — | |
| 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
- “délester”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.