désavouer

See also: desavouer

French

Etymology

dés- +‎ avouer.

Verb

désavouer

1. to take back (something that has been said)
2. to disown
3. to disavow
4. to deny, deny ownership of

Conjugation

Conjugation of désavouer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	désavouer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	désavouant /de.za.vwɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		désavoué /de.za.vwe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	désavoue /de.za.vu/	désavoues /de.za.vu/	désavoue /de.za.vu/	désavouons /de.za.vwɔ̃/	désavouez /de.za.vwe/	désavouent /de.za.vu/
	imperfect	désavouais /de.za.vwɛ/	désavouais /de.za.vwɛ/	désavouait /de.za.vwɛ/	désavouions /de.za.vu.jɔ̃/	désavouiez /de.za.vu.je/	désavouaient /de.za.vwɛ/
	past historic2	désavouai /de.za.vwe/	désavouas /de.za.vwa/	désavoua /de.za.vwa/	désavouâmes /de.za.vwam/	désavouâtes /de.za.vwat/	désavouèrent /de.za.vwɛʁ/
	future	désavouerai /de.za.vu.ʁe/	désavoueras /de.za.vu.ʁa/	désavouera /de.za.vu.ʁa/	désavouerons /de.za.vu.ʁɔ̃/	désavouerez /de.za.vu.ʁe/	désavoueront /de.za.vu.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	désavouerais /de.za.vu.ʁɛ/	désavouerais /de.za.vu.ʁɛ/	désavouerait /de.za.vu.ʁɛ/	désavouerions /de.za.vu.ʁjɔ̃/	désavoueriez /de.za.vu.ʁje/	désavoueraient /de.za.vu.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	désavoue /de.za.vu/	désavoues /de.za.vu/	désavoue /de.za.vu/	désavouions /de.za.vu.jɔ̃/	désavouiez /de.za.vu.je/	désavouent /de.za.vu/
	imperfect2	désavouasse /de.za.vwas/	désavouasses /de.za.vwas/	désavouât /de.za.vwa/	désavouassions /de.za.vwa.sjɔ̃/	désavouassiez /de.za.vwa.sje/	désavouassent /de.za.vwas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	désavoue /de.za.vu/	—	désavouons /de.za.vwɔ̃/	désavouez /de.za.vwe/	—
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

• désavouement (noun)

Descendants

• → German: desavouieren
• → Italian: sconfessare (calque)

Further reading

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