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

1. (obsolete) to dismiss
2. (rare 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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (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.