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dessertir
dessertir
French
Verb
dessertir
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of dessertir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | dessertir | avoir desserti | |||||
| gerund | en dessertissant | en ayant desserti | |||||
| present participle | dessertissant /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | desserti /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | dessertis /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti/ |
dessertis /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti/ |
dessertit /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti/ |
dessertissons /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.sɔ̃/ |
dessertissez /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.se/ |
dessertissent /dɛ.sɛʁ.tis/ |
| imperfect | dessertissais /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.sɛ/ |
dessertissais /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.sɛ/ |
dessertissait /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.sɛ/ |
dessertissions /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
dessertissiez /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.sje/ |
dessertissaient /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | dessertis /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti/ |
dessertis /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti/ |
dessertit /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti/ |
dessertîmes /dɛ.sɛʁ.tim/ |
dessertîtes /dɛ.sɛʁ.tit/ |
dessertirent /dɛ.sɛʁ.tiʁ/ |
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| future | dessertirai /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.ʁe/ |
dessertiras /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.ʁa/ |
dessertira /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.ʁa/ |
dessertirons /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
dessertirez /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.ʁe/ |
dessertiront /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | dessertirais /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.ʁɛ/ |
dessertirais /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.ʁɛ/ |
dessertirait /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.ʁɛ/ |
dessertirions /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.ʁjɔ̃/ |
dessertiriez /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.ʁje/ |
dessertiraient /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | dessertisse /dɛ.sɛʁ.tis/ |
dessertisses /dɛ.sɛʁ.tis/ |
dessertisse /dɛ.sɛʁ.tis/ |
dessertissions /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
dessertissiez /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.sje/ |
dessertissent /dɛ.sɛʁ.tis/ |
| imperfect1 |
dessertisse /dɛ.sɛʁ.tis/ |
dessertisses /dɛ.sɛʁ.tis/ |
dessertît /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti/ |
dessertissions /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/ |
dessertissiez /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.sje/ |
dessertissent /dɛ.sɛʁ.tis/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | dessertis /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti/ |
— | dessertissons /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.sɔ̃/ |
dessertissez /dɛ.sɛʁ.ti.se/ |
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