déserter
Appearance
See also: deserter
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Late Latin dēsertāre, from Latin dēsertus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]déserter
- (transitive) to desert (a place), abandon
- 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, chapter IX, in Tristes Tropiques, Plon, published 1993, →ISBN, page 91; republished as John & Doreen Weightman, transl., Tristes Tropiques, Penguin, 2011, →ISBN:
- Villegaignon fonde, sur une île en pleine baie, le Fort-Coligny; les Indiens le construisent, ils ravitaillent la petite colonie; mais vite dégoûtés de donner sans recevoir, ils se sauvent, désertent leurs villages.
- — Villegaignon founded Fort Coligny on an island right in the centre of the bay; Indians built it and kept the small colony provided with food; but they soon wearied of giving without receiving anything in return, and fled, abandoning their villages.
- (intransitive, military) to desert
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of déserter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | déserter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | désertant /de.zɛʁ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | déserté /de.zɛʁ.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | déserte /de.zɛʁt/ |
désertes /de.zɛʁt/ |
déserte /de.zɛʁt/ |
désertons /de.zɛʁ.tɔ̃/ |
désertez /de.zɛʁ.te/ |
désertent /de.zɛʁt/ |
imperfect | désertais /de.zɛʁ.tɛ/ |
désertais /de.zɛʁ.tɛ/ |
désertait /de.zɛʁ.tɛ/ |
désertions /de.zɛʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
désertiez /de.zɛʁ.tje/ |
désertaient /de.zɛʁ.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | désertai /de.zɛʁ.te/ |
désertas /de.zɛʁ.ta/ |
déserta /de.zɛʁ.ta/ |
désertâmes /de.zɛʁ.tam/ |
désertâtes /de.zɛʁ.tat/ |
désertèrent /de.zɛʁ.tɛʁ/ | |
future | déserterai /de.zɛʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
déserteras /de.zɛʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
désertera /de.zɛʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
déserterons /de.zɛʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
déserterez /de.zɛʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
déserteront /de.zɛʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | déserterais /de.zɛʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
déserterais /de.zɛʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
déserterait /de.zɛʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
déserterions /de.zɛʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
déserteriez /de.zɛʁ.tə.ʁje/ |
déserteraient /de.zɛʁ.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 | déserte /de.zɛʁt/ |
désertes /de.zɛʁt/ |
déserte /de.zɛʁt/ |
désertions /de.zɛʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
désertiez /de.zɛʁ.tje/ |
désertent /de.zɛʁt/ |
imperfect2 | désertasse /de.zɛʁ.tas/ |
désertasses /de.zɛʁ.tas/ |
désertât /de.zɛʁ.ta/ |
désertassions /de.zɛʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
désertassiez /de.zɛʁ.ta.sje/ |
désertassent /de.zɛʁ.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | déserte /de.zɛʁt/ |
— | désertons /de.zɛʁ.tɔ̃/ |
désertez /de.zɛʁ.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “déserter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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