dévaler
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French dévaler, from Old French devaler. By surface analysis, dé- + val + -er.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]dévaler
- (transitive or intransitive) to go down, descend
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of dévaler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | dévaler | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | dévalant /de.va.lɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | dévalé /de.va.le/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | dévale /de.val/ |
dévales /de.val/ |
dévale /de.val/ |
dévalons /de.va.lɔ̃/ |
dévalez /de.va.le/ |
dévalent /de.val/ |
imperfect | dévalais /de.va.lɛ/ |
dévalais /de.va.lɛ/ |
dévalait /de.va.lɛ/ |
dévalions /de.va.ljɔ̃/ |
dévaliez /de.va.lje/ |
dévalaient /de.va.lɛ/ | |
past historic2 | dévalai /de.va.le/ |
dévalas /de.va.la/ |
dévala /de.va.la/ |
dévalâmes /de.va.lam/ |
dévalâtes /de.va.lat/ |
dévalèrent /de.va.lɛʁ/ | |
future | dévalerai /de.val.ʁe/ |
dévaleras /de.val.ʁa/ |
dévalera /de.val.ʁa/ |
dévalerons /de.val.ʁɔ̃/ |
dévalerez /de.val.ʁe/ |
dévaleront /de.val.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | dévalerais /de.val.ʁɛ/ |
dévalerais /de.val.ʁɛ/ |
dévalerait /de.val.ʁɛ/ |
dévalerions /de.va.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
dévaleriez /de.va.lə.ʁje/ |
dévaleraient /de.val.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 | dévale /de.val/ |
dévales /de.val/ |
dévale /de.val/ |
dévalions /de.va.ljɔ̃/ |
dévaliez /de.va.lje/ |
dévalent /de.val/ |
imperfect2 | dévalasse /de.va.las/ |
dévalasses /de.va.las/ |
dévalât /de.va.la/ |
dévalassions /de.va.la.sjɔ̃/ |
dévalassiez /de.va.la.sje/ |
dévalassent /de.va.las/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | dévale /de.val/ |
— | dévalons /de.va.lɔ̃/ |
dévalez /de.va.le/ |
— | |
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
[edit]- “dévaler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Categories:
- French terms inherited from Middle French
- French terms derived from Middle French
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms prefixed with dé-
- French terms suffixed with -er
- French 3-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French verbs
- French transitive verbs
- French intransitive verbs
- French verbs with conjugation -er
- French first group verbs