désassortir

French

Etymology

From dés- +‎ assortir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.za.sɔʁ.tiʁ/

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Verb

désassortir

1. (transitive) to spoil the match of, to mismatch

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 désassortir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	désassortir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	désassortissant /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		désassorti /de.za.sɔʁ.ti/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	désassortis /de.za.sɔʁ.ti/	désassortis /de.za.sɔʁ.ti/	désassortit /de.za.sɔʁ.ti/	désassortissons /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.sɔ̃/	désassortissez /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.se/	désassortissent /de.za.sɔʁ.tis/
	imperfect	désassortissais /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.sɛ/	désassortissais /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.sɛ/	désassortissait /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.sɛ/	désassortissions /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/	désassortissiez /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.sje/	désassortissaient /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.sɛ/
	past historic2	désassortis /de.za.sɔʁ.ti/	désassortis /de.za.sɔʁ.ti/	désassortit /de.za.sɔʁ.ti/	désassortîmes /de.za.sɔʁ.tim/	désassortîtes /de.za.sɔʁ.tit/	désassortirent /de.za.sɔʁ.tiʁ/
	future	désassortirai /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.ʁe/	désassortiras /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.ʁa/	désassortira /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.ʁa/	désassortirons /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/	désassortirez /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.ʁe/	désassortiront /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	désassortirais /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.ʁɛ/	désassortirais /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.ʁɛ/	désassortirait /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.ʁɛ/	désassortirions /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	désassortiriez /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.ʁje/	désassortiraient /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.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	désassortisse /de.za.sɔʁ.tis/	désassortisses /de.za.sɔʁ.tis/	désassortisse /de.za.sɔʁ.tis/	désassortissions /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/	désassortissiez /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.sje/	désassortissent /de.za.sɔʁ.tis/
	imperfect2	désassortisse /de.za.sɔʁ.tis/	désassortisses /de.za.sɔʁ.tis/	désassortît /de.za.sɔʁ.ti/	désassortissions /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/	désassortissiez /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.sje/	désassortissent /de.za.sɔʁ.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	désassortis /de.za.sɔʁ.ti/	—	désassortissons /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.sɔ̃/	désassortissez /de.za.sɔʁ.ti.se/	—
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).

Further reading

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