démunir
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.my.niʁ/
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Verb
démunir
- to deprive of, to divest of
- (reflexive, ~ de) to leave oneself without, to deprive oneself of
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 démunir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | démunir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | démunissant /de.my.ni.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | démuni /de.my.ni/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | démunis /de.my.ni/ | démunis /de.my.ni/ | démunit /de.my.ni/ | démunissons /de.my.ni.sɔ̃/ | démunissez /de.my.ni.se/ | démunissent /de.my.nis/ |
imperfect | démunissais /de.my.ni.sɛ/ | démunissais /de.my.ni.sɛ/ | démunissait /de.my.ni.sɛ/ | démunissions /de.my.ni.sjɔ̃/ | démunissiez /de.my.ni.sje/ | démunissaient /de.my.ni.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | démunis /de.my.ni/ | démunis /de.my.ni/ | démunit /de.my.ni/ | démunîmes /de.my.nim/ | démunîtes /de.my.nit/ | démunirent /de.my.niʁ/ | |
future | démunirai /de.my.ni.ʁe/ | démuniras /de.my.ni.ʁa/ | démunira /de.my.ni.ʁa/ | démunirons /de.my.ni.ʁɔ̃/ | démunirez /de.my.ni.ʁe/ | démuniront /de.my.ni.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | démunirais /de.my.ni.ʁɛ/ | démunirais /de.my.ni.ʁɛ/ | démunirait /de.my.ni.ʁɛ/ | démunirions /de.my.ni.ʁjɔ̃/ | démuniriez /de.my.ni.ʁje/ | démuniraient /de.my.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 | démunisse /de.my.nis/ | démunisses /de.my.nis/ | démunisse /de.my.nis/ | démunissions /de.my.ni.sjɔ̃/ | démunissiez /de.my.ni.sje/ | démunissent /de.my.nis/ |
imperfect2 | démunisse /de.my.nis/ | démunisses /de.my.nis/ | démunît /de.my.ni/ | démunissions /de.my.ni.sjɔ̃/ | démunissiez /de.my.ni.sje/ | démunissent /de.my.nis/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | démunis /de.my.ni/ | — | démunissons /de.my.ni.sɔ̃/ | démunissez /de.my.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). |
Derived terms
- démuni
Further reading
- “démunir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.