dissiper
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dissipāre.
Pronunciation
Verb
dissiper
- to dissipate
- to squander (waste)
- (literary, transitive) to distract (someone) from serious thoughts
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- Il faut vous secouer, monsieur Bovary; ça se passera! Venez nous voir; ma fille pense à vous de temps à autre, savez-vous bien, et elle dit comme ça que vous l'oubliez. Voilà le printemps bientôt; nous vous ferons tirer un lapin dans la garenne, pour vous dissiper un peu.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of dissiper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | dissiper | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | dissipant /di.si.pɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | dissipé /di.si.pe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | dissipe /di.sip/ |
dissipes /di.sip/ |
dissipe /di.sip/ |
dissipons /di.si.pɔ̃/ |
dissipez /di.si.pe/ |
dissipent /di.sip/ |
| imperfect | dissipais /di.si.pɛ/ |
dissipais /di.si.pɛ/ |
dissipait /di.si.pɛ/ |
dissipions /di.si.pjɔ̃/ |
dissipiez /di.si.pje/ |
dissipaient /di.si.pɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | dissipai /di.si.pe/ |
dissipas /di.si.pa/ |
dissipa /di.si.pa/ |
dissipâmes /di.si.pam/ |
dissipâtes /di.si.pat/ |
dissipèrent /di.si.pɛʁ/ | |
| future | dissiperai /di.si.pʁe/ |
dissiperas /di.si.pʁa/ |
dissipera /di.si.pʁa/ |
dissiperons /di.si.pʁɔ̃/ |
dissiperez /di.si.pʁe/ |
dissiperont /di.si.pʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | dissiperais /di.si.pʁɛ/ |
dissiperais /di.si.pʁɛ/ |
dissiperait /di.si.pʁɛ/ |
dissiperions /di.si.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
dissiperiez /di.si.pə.ʁje/ |
dissiperaient /di.si.pʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | dissipe /di.sip/ |
dissipes /di.sip/ |
dissipe /di.sip/ |
dissipions /di.si.pjɔ̃/ |
dissipiez /di.si.pje/ |
dissipent /di.sip/ |
| imperfect2 | dissipasse /di.si.pas/ |
dissipasses /di.si.pas/ |
dissipât /di.si.pa/ |
dissipassions /di.si.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
dissipassiez /di.si.pa.sje/ |
dissipassent /di.si.pas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | dissipe /di.sip/ |
— | dissipons /di.si.pɔ̃/ |
dissipez /di.si.pe/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “dissiper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Latin
Verb
dissiper
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of dissipō