dissiper

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dissipāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.si.pe/

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Verb

dissiper

1. to dissipate
2. to squander (waste)
3. (literary) to distract (someone) from serious thoughts

Conjugation

Conjugation of dissiper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	dissiper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dissipant /di.si.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		dissipé /di.si.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	dissipe /di.sip/	dissipes /di.sip/	dissipe /di.sip/	dissipons /di.si.pɔ̃/	dissipez /di.si.pe/	dissipent /di.sip/
	imperfect	dissipais /di.si.pɛ/	dissipais /di.si.pɛ/	dissipait /di.si.pɛ/	dissipions /di.si.pjɔ̃/	dissipiez /di.si.pje/	dissipaient /di.si.pɛ/
	past historic2	dissipai /di.si.pe/	dissipas /di.si.pa/	dissipa /di.si.pa/	dissipâmes /di.si.pam/	dissipâtes /di.si.pat/	dissipèrent /di.si.pɛʁ/
	future	dissiperai /di.si.pʁe/	dissiperas /di.si.pʁa/	dissipera /di.si.pʁa/	dissiperons /di.si.pʁɔ̃/	dissiperez /di.si.pʁe/	dissiperont /di.si.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	dissiperais /di.si.pʁɛ/	dissiperais /di.si.pʁɛ/	dissiperait /di.si.pʁɛ/	dissiperions /di.si.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	dissiperiez /di.si.pə.ʁje/	dissiperaient /di.si.pʁɛ/
(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	dissipe /di.sip/	dissipes /di.sip/	dissipe /di.sip/	dissipions /di.si.pjɔ̃/	dissipiez /di.si.pje/	dissipent /di.sip/
	imperfect2	dissipasse /di.si.pas/	dissipasses /di.si.pas/	dissipât /di.si.pa/	dissipassions /di.si.pa.sjɔ̃/	dissipassiez /di.si.pa.sje/	dissipassent /di.si.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	dissipe /di.sip/	—	dissipons /di.si.pɔ̃/	dissipez /di.si.pe/	—
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).

Related terms

• dissipateur
• dissipation

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

dissiper

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of dissipō