dessiller
French
Alternative forms
- déciller (post-1990 spelling)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French descillier. By surface analysis, dé- + cil + -er.
Pronunciation
Verb
dessiller
- (transitive, figurative) to open someone's eyes (to make them see or understand something)
- dessiller les yeux de quelqu'un ― to remove the scales from someone's eyes
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- Il le tint durant trois quarts d'heure, voulant lui dessiller les yeux, l'avertir du gouffre. Une telle intrigue nuirait plus tard à son établissement.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of dessiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | dessiller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | dessillant /de.si.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | dessillé /de.si.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | dessille /de.sij/ |
dessilles /de.sij/ |
dessille /de.sij/ |
dessillons /de.si.jɔ̃/ |
dessillez /de.si.je/ |
dessillent /de.sij/ |
| imperfect | dessillais /de.si.jɛ/ |
dessillais /de.si.jɛ/ |
dessillait /de.si.jɛ/ |
dessillions /de.sij.jɔ̃/ |
dessilliez /de.sij.je/ |
dessillaient /de.si.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | dessillai /de.si.je/ |
dessillas /de.si.ja/ |
dessilla /de.si.ja/ |
dessillâmes /de.si.jam/ |
dessillâtes /de.si.jat/ |
dessillèrent /de.si.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | dessillerai /de.sij.ʁe/ |
dessilleras /de.sij.ʁa/ |
dessillera /de.sij.ʁa/ |
dessillerons /de.sij.ʁɔ̃/ |
dessillerez /de.sij.ʁe/ |
dessilleront /de.sij.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | dessillerais /de.sij.ʁɛ/ |
dessillerais /de.sij.ʁɛ/ |
dessillerait /de.sij.ʁɛ/ |
dessillerions /de.si.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
dessilleriez /de.si.jə.ʁje/ |
dessilleraient /de.sij.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 | dessille /de.sij/ |
dessilles /de.sij/ |
dessille /de.sij/ |
dessillions /de.sij.jɔ̃/ |
dessilliez /de.sij.je/ |
dessillent /de.sij/ |
| imperfect2 | dessillasse /de.si.jas/ |
dessillasses /de.si.jas/ |
dessillât /de.si.ja/ |
dessillassions /de.si.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
dessillassiez /de.si.ja.sje/ |
dessillassent /de.si.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | dessille /de.sij/ |
— | dessillons /de.si.jɔ̃/ |
dessillez /de.si.je/ |
— | |
| 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
- “dessiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012