départir

See also: departir

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French departir, from Old French departir, from Late Latin departīre, from Latin de + partiō. Or from dé- +‎ partir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.paʁ.tiʁ/

• Audio:

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Verb

départir

1. (reflexive, se départir de) to divest, dispose of
2. (transitive, obsolete) to distribute
3. (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).

Conjugation of départir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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).

Descendants

• → Portuguese: departir

Further reading

• “départir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.