disjoncter

French

Etymology

Neologism formed from the stem of the Latin disjunctus (past participle of disjungere).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.ʒɔ̃k.te/

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Verb

disjoncter

1. to fuse, break

Conjugation

Conjugation of disjoncter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	disjoncter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	disjonctant /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		disjoncté /dis.ʒɔ̃k.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	disjoncte /dis.ʒɔ̃kt/	disjonctes /dis.ʒɔ̃kt/	disjoncte /dis.ʒɔ̃kt/	disjonctons /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tɔ̃/	disjonctez /dis.ʒɔ̃k.te/	disjonctent /dis.ʒɔ̃kt/
	imperfect	disjonctais /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tɛ/	disjonctais /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tɛ/	disjonctait /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tɛ/	disjonctions /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tjɔ̃/	disjonctiez /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tje/	disjonctaient /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tɛ/
	past historic2	disjonctai /dis.ʒɔ̃k.te/	disjonctas /dis.ʒɔ̃k.ta/	disjoncta /dis.ʒɔ̃k.ta/	disjonctâmes /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tam/	disjonctâtes /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tat/	disjonctèrent /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tɛʁ/
	future	disjoncterai /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tə.ʁe/	disjoncteras /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tə.ʁa/	disjonctera /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tə.ʁa/	disjoncterons /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tə.ʁɔ̃/	disjoncterez /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tə.ʁe/	disjoncteront /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	disjoncterais /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tə.ʁɛ/	disjoncterais /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tə.ʁɛ/	disjoncterait /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tə.ʁɛ/	disjoncterions /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	disjoncteriez /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tə.ʁje/	disjoncteraient /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tə.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	disjoncte /dis.ʒɔ̃kt/	disjonctes /dis.ʒɔ̃kt/	disjoncte /dis.ʒɔ̃kt/	disjonctions /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tjɔ̃/	disjonctiez /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tje/	disjonctent /dis.ʒɔ̃kt/
	imperfect2	disjonctasse /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tas/	disjonctasses /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tas/	disjonctât /dis.ʒɔ̃k.ta/	disjonctassions /dis.ʒɔ̃k.ta.sjɔ̃/	disjonctassiez /dis.ʒɔ̃k.ta.sje/	disjonctassent /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	disjoncte /dis.ʒɔ̃kt/	—	disjonctons /dis.ʒɔ̃k.tɔ̃/	disjonctez /dis.ʒɔ̃k.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).

Derived terms

• disjoncteur

Further reading

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