discontinuer

English

Etymology

From discontinue +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪskənˈtɪnjuə(ɹ)/

Noun

discontinuer (plural discontinuers)

1. One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee.
   • a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:

     He was no gadder abroad, or discontinuer from his convent, for a long time.

Anagrams

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥe/

• Audio:

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Verb

discontinuer

1. (intransitive) to discontinue, to cease, to leave off

Conjugation

Conjugation of discontinuer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	discontinuer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	discontinuant /dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		discontinué /dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	discontinue /dis.kɔ̃.ti.ny/	discontinues /dis.kɔ̃.ti.ny/	discontinue /dis.kɔ̃.ti.ny/	discontinuons /dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥɔ̃/	discontinuez /dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥe/	discontinuent /dis.kɔ̃.ti.ny/
	imperfect	discontinuais /dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥɛ/	discontinuais /dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥɛ/	discontinuait /dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥɛ/	discontinuions /dis.kɔ̃.ti.ny.jɔ̃/	discontinuiez /dis.kɔ̃.ti.ny.je/	discontinuaient /dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥɛ/
	past historic2	discontinuai /dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥe/	discontinuas /dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥa/	discontinua /dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥa/	discontinuâmes /dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥam/	discontinuâtes /dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥat/	discontinuèrent /dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥɛʁ/
	future	discontinuerai /dis.kɔ̃.ti.ny.ʁe/	discontinueras /dis.kɔ̃.ti.ny.ʁa/	discontinuera /dis.kɔ̃.ti.ny.ʁa/	discontinuerons /dis.kɔ̃.ti.ny.ʁɔ̃/	discontinuerez /dis.kɔ̃.ti.ny.ʁe/	discontinueront /dis.kɔ̃.ti.ny.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	discontinuerais /dis.kɔ̃.ti.ny.ʁɛ/	discontinuerais /dis.kɔ̃.ti.ny.ʁɛ/	discontinuerait /dis.kɔ̃.ti.ny.ʁɛ/	discontinuerions /dis.kɔ̃.ti.ny.ʁjɔ̃/	discontinueriez /dis.kɔ̃.ti.ny.ʁje/	discontinueraient /dis.kɔ̃.ti.ny.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	discontinue /dis.kɔ̃.ti.ny/	discontinues /dis.kɔ̃.ti.ny/	discontinue /dis.kɔ̃.ti.ny/	discontinuions /dis.kɔ̃.ti.ny.jɔ̃/	discontinuiez /dis.kɔ̃.ti.ny.je/	discontinuent /dis.kɔ̃.ti.ny/
	imperfect2	discontinuasse /dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥas/	discontinuasses /dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥas/	discontinuât /dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥa/	discontinuassions /dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥa.sjɔ̃/	discontinuassiez /dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥa.sje/	discontinuassent /dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	discontinue /dis.kɔ̃.ti.ny/	—	discontinuons /dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥɔ̃/	discontinuez /dis.kɔ̃.ti.nɥe/	—
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

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

Latin

Verb

discontinuer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of discontinuō