départir
French
Etymology
From Middle French departir, from Old French departir, from Late Latin departīre, present active infinitive of departiō, from Latin de + partiō. Or from dé- + partir.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.paʁ.tiʁ/
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Verb
départir
- (reflexive, se départir de) to divest, dispose of
- (transitive, obsolete) to distribute
- (Louisiana, reflexive) to depart, to leave
Conjugation
This is one of a fairly large group of irregular -ir verbs that are all conjugated the same way. Other members of this group include sortir and dormir. The most significant difference between these verbs' conjugation and that of the regular -ir verbs is that these verbs' conjugation does not use the infix -iss-. Further, this conjugation has the forms (je, tu) dépars and (il) départ in the present indicative and imperative, whereas a regular -ir verb would have *départis and *départit (as in the past historic).
| infinitive | simple | départir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | départant /de.paʁ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | départi /de.paʁ.ti/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | dépars /de.paʁ/ | dépars /de.paʁ/ | départ /de.paʁ/ | départons /de.paʁ.tɔ̃/ | départez /de.paʁ.te/ | départent /de.paʁt/ |
| imperfect | départais /de.paʁ.tɛ/ | départais /de.paʁ.tɛ/ | départait /de.paʁ.tɛ/ | départions /de.paʁ.tjɔ̃/ | départiez /de.paʁ.tje/ | départaient /de.paʁ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | départis /de.paʁ.ti/ | départis /de.paʁ.ti/ | départit /de.paʁ.ti/ | départîmes /de.paʁ.tim/ | départîtes /de.paʁ.tit/ | départirent /de.paʁ.tiʁ/ | |
| future | départirai /de.paʁ.ti.ʁe/ | départiras /de.paʁ.ti.ʁa/ | départira /de.paʁ.ti.ʁa/ | départirons /de.paʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | départirez /de.paʁ.ti.ʁe/ | départiront /de.paʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | départirais /de.paʁ.ti.ʁɛ/ | départirais /de.paʁ.ti.ʁɛ/ | départirait /de.paʁ.ti.ʁɛ/ | départirions /de.paʁ.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ | départiriez /de.paʁ.ti.ʁje/ | départiraient /de.paʁ.ti.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 | départe /de.paʁt/ | départes /de.paʁt/ | départe /de.paʁt/ | départions /de.paʁ.tjɔ̃/ | départiez /de.paʁ.tje/ | départent /de.paʁt/ |
| imperfect2 | départisse /de.paʁ.tis/ | départisses /de.paʁ.tis/ | départît /de.paʁ.ti/ | départissions /de.paʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/ | départissiez /de.paʁ.ti.sje/ | départissent /de.paʁ.tis/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | dépars /de.paʁ/ | — | départons /de.paʁ.tɔ̃/ | départez /de.paʁ.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
- “départir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.