déniveler

French

Etymology

From dé- +‎ niveler.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.ni.vle/

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• Homophones: dénivelai, dénivelé, dénivelée, dénivelées, dénivelés, dénivelez

Verb

déniveler

1. (transitive) to make uneven

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like parler, except the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-, as in the third-person singular present indicative il dénivèle and the third-person singular future indicative il dénivèlera.

Conjugation of déniveler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	déniveler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dénivelant /de.ni.vlɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		dénivelé /de.ni.vle/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	dénivèle /de.ni.vɛl/	dénivèles /de.ni.vɛl/	dénivèle /de.ni.vɛl/	dénivelons /de.ni.vlɔ̃/	dénivelez /de.ni.vle/	dénivèlent /de.ni.vɛl/
	imperfect	dénivelais /de.ni.vlɛ/	dénivelais /de.ni.vlɛ/	dénivelait /de.ni.vlɛ/	dénivelions /de.ni.və.ljɔ̃/	déniveliez /de.ni.və.lje/	dénivelaient /de.ni.vlɛ/
	past historic2	dénivelai /de.ni.vle/	dénivelas /de.ni.vla/	dénivela /de.ni.vla/	dénivelâmes /de.ni.vlam/	dénivelâtes /de.ni.vlat/	dénivelèrent /de.ni.vlɛʁ/
	future	dénivèlerai /de.ni.vɛl.ʁe/	dénivèleras /de.ni.vɛl.ʁa/	dénivèlera /de.ni.vɛl.ʁa/	dénivèlerons /de.ni.vɛl.ʁɔ̃/	dénivèlerez /de.ni.vɛl.ʁe/	dénivèleront /de.ni.vɛl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	dénivèlerais /de.ni.vɛl.ʁɛ/	dénivèlerais /de.ni.vɛl.ʁɛ/	dénivèlerait /de.ni.vɛl.ʁɛ/	dénivèlerions /de.ni.vɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /de.ni.ve.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	dénivèleriez /de.ni.vɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /de.ni.ve.lə.ʁje/	dénivèleraient /de.ni.vɛl.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	dénivèle /de.ni.vɛl/	dénivèles /de.ni.vɛl/	dénivèle /de.ni.vɛl/	dénivelions /de.ni.və.ljɔ̃/	déniveliez /de.ni.və.lje/	dénivèlent /de.ni.vɛl/
	imperfect2	dénivelasse /de.ni.vlas/	dénivelasses /de.ni.vlas/	dénivelât /de.ni.vla/	dénivelassions /de.ni.vla.sjɔ̃/	dénivelassiez /de.ni.vla.sje/	dénivelassent /de.ni.vlas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	dénivèle /de.ni.vɛl/	—	dénivelons /de.ni.vlɔ̃/	dénivelez /de.ni.vle/	—
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

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