désappointer
French
Etymology
From dés- + appointer. The sense of "disappoint" is a semantic loan from English disappoint.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.za.pwɛ̃.te/
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Verb
désappointer
- (obsolete) to dismiss
- (rare, proscribed outside Louisiana) to disappoint
- Synonym: décevoir
Conjugation
Conjugation of désappointer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | désappointer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | désappointant /de.za.pwɛ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | désappointé /de.za.pwɛ̃.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | désappointe /de.za.pwɛ̃t/ | désappointes /de.za.pwɛ̃t/ | désappointe /de.za.pwɛ̃t/ | désappointons /de.za.pwɛ̃.tɔ̃/ | désappointez /de.za.pwɛ̃.te/ | désappointent /de.za.pwɛ̃t/ |
| imperfect | désappointais /de.za.pwɛ̃.tɛ/ | désappointais /de.za.pwɛ̃.tɛ/ | désappointait /de.za.pwɛ̃.tɛ/ | désappointions /de.za.pwɛ̃.tjɔ̃/ | désappointiez /de.za.pwɛ̃.tje/ | désappointaient /de.za.pwɛ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | désappointai /de.za.pwɛ̃.te/ | désappointas /de.za.pwɛ̃.ta/ | désappointa /de.za.pwɛ̃.ta/ | désappointâmes /de.za.pwɛ̃.tam/ | désappointâtes /de.za.pwɛ̃.tat/ | désappointèrent /de.za.pwɛ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | désappointerai /de.za.pwɛ̃.tʁe/ | désappointeras /de.za.pwɛ̃.tʁa/ | désappointera /de.za.pwɛ̃.tʁa/ | désappointerons /de.za.pwɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | désappointerez /de.za.pwɛ̃.tʁe/ | désappointeront /de.za.pwɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | désappointerais /de.za.pwɛ̃.tʁɛ/ | désappointerais /de.za.pwɛ̃.tʁɛ/ | désappointerait /de.za.pwɛ̃.tʁɛ/ | désappointerions /de.za.pwɛ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | désappointeriez /de.za.pwɛ̃.tə.ʁje/ | désappointeraient /de.za.pwɛ̃.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | désappointe /de.za.pwɛ̃t/ | désappointes /de.za.pwɛ̃t/ | désappointe /de.za.pwɛ̃t/ | désappointions /de.za.pwɛ̃.tjɔ̃/ | désappointiez /de.za.pwɛ̃.tje/ | désappointent /de.za.pwɛ̃t/ |
| imperfect2 | désappointasse /de.za.pwɛ̃.tas/ | désappointasses /de.za.pwɛ̃.tas/ | désappointât /de.za.pwɛ̃.ta/ | désappointassions /de.za.pwɛ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ | désappointassiez /de.za.pwɛ̃.ta.sje/ | désappointassent /de.za.pwɛ̃.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | désappointe /de.za.pwɛ̃t/ | — | désappointons /de.za.pwɛ̃.tɔ̃/ | désappointez /de.za.pwɛ̃.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
- “désappointer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.