désactiver

French

Etymology

From dés- +‎ activer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.zak.ti.ve/

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Verb

désactiver

1. (transitive) to disable, to turn off (to deactivate a function of an electronic or mechanical device)

   Coordinate terms: activer, réactiver

2. (transitive) to deactivate

Conjugation

Conjugation of désactiver (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	désactiver
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	désactivant /de.zak.ti.vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		désactivé /de.zak.ti.ve/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	désactive /de.zak.tiv/	désactives /de.zak.tiv/	désactive /de.zak.tiv/	désactivons /de.zak.ti.vɔ̃/	désactivez /de.zak.ti.ve/	désactivent /de.zak.tiv/
	imperfect	désactivais /de.zak.ti.vɛ/	désactivais /de.zak.ti.vɛ/	désactivait /de.zak.ti.vɛ/	désactivions /de.zak.ti.vjɔ̃/	désactiviez /de.zak.ti.vje/	désactivaient /de.zak.ti.vɛ/
	past historic2	désactivai /de.zak.ti.ve/	désactivas /de.zak.ti.va/	désactiva /de.zak.ti.va/	désactivâmes /de.zak.ti.vam/	désactivâtes /de.zak.ti.vat/	désactivèrent /de.zak.ti.vɛʁ/
	future	désactiverai /de.zak.ti.vʁe/	désactiveras /de.zak.ti.vʁa/	désactivera /de.zak.ti.vʁa/	désactiverons /de.zak.ti.vʁɔ̃/	désactiverez /de.zak.ti.vʁe/	désactiveront /de.zak.ti.vʁɔ̃/
	conditional	désactiverais /de.zak.ti.vʁɛ/	désactiverais /de.zak.ti.vʁɛ/	désactiverait /de.zak.ti.vʁɛ/	désactiverions /de.zak.ti.və.ʁjɔ̃/	désactiveriez /de.zak.ti.və.ʁje/	désactiveraient /de.zak.ti.vʁɛ/
(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	désactive /de.zak.tiv/	désactives /de.zak.tiv/	désactive /de.zak.tiv/	désactivions /de.zak.ti.vjɔ̃/	désactiviez /de.zak.ti.vje/	désactivent /de.zak.tiv/
	imperfect2	désactivasse /de.zak.ti.vas/	désactivasses /de.zak.ti.vas/	désactivât /de.zak.ti.va/	désactivassions /de.zak.ti.va.sjɔ̃/	désactivassiez /de.zak.ti.va.sje/	désactivassent /de.zak.ti.vas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	désactive /de.zak.tiv/	—	désactivons /de.zak.ti.vɔ̃/	désactivez /de.zak.ti.ve/	—
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

• désactivation