disserter

French

Etymology

From Latin dissertāre. Cognate to Italian dissertare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.sɛʁ.te/

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Verb

disserter

1. (intransitive) to discourse (on)

Conjugation

Conjugation of disserter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	disserter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dissertant /di.sɛʁ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		disserté /di.sɛʁ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	disserte /di.sɛʁt/	dissertes /di.sɛʁt/	disserte /di.sɛʁt/	dissertons /di.sɛʁ.tɔ̃/	dissertez /di.sɛʁ.te/	dissertent /di.sɛʁt/
	imperfect	dissertais /di.sɛʁ.tɛ/	dissertais /di.sɛʁ.tɛ/	dissertait /di.sɛʁ.tɛ/	dissertions /di.sɛʁ.tjɔ̃/	dissertiez /di.sɛʁ.tje/	dissertaient /di.sɛʁ.tɛ/
	past historic2	dissertai /di.sɛʁ.te/	dissertas /di.sɛʁ.ta/	disserta /di.sɛʁ.ta/	dissertâmes /di.sɛʁ.tam/	dissertâtes /di.sɛʁ.tat/	dissertèrent /di.sɛʁ.tɛʁ/
	future	disserterai /di.sɛʁ.tə.ʁe/	disserteras /di.sɛʁ.tə.ʁa/	dissertera /di.sɛʁ.tə.ʁa/	disserterons /di.sɛʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/	disserterez /di.sɛʁ.tə.ʁe/	disserteront /di.sɛʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	disserterais /di.sɛʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	disserterais /di.sɛʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	disserterait /di.sɛʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	disserterions /di.sɛʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	disserteriez /di.sɛʁ.tə.ʁje/	disserteraient /di.sɛʁ.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	disserte /di.sɛʁt/	dissertes /di.sɛʁt/	disserte /di.sɛʁt/	dissertions /di.sɛʁ.tjɔ̃/	dissertiez /di.sɛʁ.tje/	dissertent /di.sɛʁt/
	imperfect2	dissertasse /di.sɛʁ.tas/	dissertasses /di.sɛʁ.tas/	dissertât /di.sɛʁ.ta/	dissertassions /di.sɛʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/	dissertassiez /di.sɛʁ.ta.sje/	dissertassent /di.sɛʁ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	disserte /di.sɛʁt/	—	dissertons /di.sɛʁ.tɔ̃/	dissertez /di.sɛʁ.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: 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).

Derived terms

• dissertation

Further reading

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