dissoudre
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French dissoudre, from Old French dissoudre, from Latin dissolvo, from solvo, from luo
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
dissoudre
- (reflexive) to dissolve, break up, separate, disband
- 2018, Zaz, On s'en remet jamais:
- Est-ce que tout ce qu’on a pas pu faire va se dissoudre dans le temps ?
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (transitive) to dissolve, separate, disintegrate, disperse
- (transitive, law) to separate the constituent elements of an institutional group or legal relationship between people, and thus get rid of that group (as a marriage, company, meeting of a National Assembly)
- (transitive, law) to nullify (as a contract)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of dissoudre (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | dissoudre | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | dissolvant /di.sɔl.vɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | dissous /di.su/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | dissous /di.su/ |
dissous /di.su/ |
dissout /di.su/ |
dissolvons /di.sɔl.vɔ̃/ |
dissolvez /di.sɔl.ve/ |
dissolvent /di.sɔlv/ |
| imperfect | dissolvais /di.sɔl.vɛ/ |
dissolvais /di.sɔl.vɛ/ |
dissolvait /di.sɔl.vɛ/ |
dissolvions /di.sɔl.vjɔ̃/ |
dissolviez /di.sɔl.vje/ |
dissolvaient /di.sɔl.vɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | dissolus /di.sɔ.ly/ |
dissolus /di.sɔ.ly/ |
dissolut /di.sɔ.ly/ |
dissolûmes /di.sɔ.lym/ |
dissolûtes /di.sɔ.lyt/ |
dissolurent /di.sɔ.lyʁ/ | |
| future | dissoudrai /di.su.dʁe/ |
dissoudras /di.su.dʁa/ |
dissoudra /di.su.dʁa/ |
dissoudrons /di.su.dʁɔ̃/ |
dissoudrez /di.su.dʁe/ |
dissoudront /di.su.dʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | dissoudrais /di.su.dʁɛ/ |
dissoudrais /di.su.dʁɛ/ |
dissoudrait /di.su.dʁɛ/ |
dissoudrions /di.su.dʁi.jɔ̃/ |
dissoudriez /di.su.dʁi.je/ |
dissoudraient /di.su.dʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | dissolve /di.sɔlv/ |
dissolves /di.sɔlv/ |
dissolve /di.sɔlv/ |
dissolvions /di.sɔl.vjɔ̃/ |
dissolviez /di.sɔl.vje/ |
dissolvent /di.sɔlv/ |
| imperfect2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | dissous /di.su/ |
— | dissolvons /di.sɔl.vɔ̃/ |
dissolvez /di.sɔl.ve/ |
— | |
| 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 edit
- “dissoudre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.