dessertir

French

Etymology

From dé- +‎ sertir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.sɛʁ.tiʁ/

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Verb

dessertir

1. to unsocket, to remove (a gem) from its socket on a piece of jewellery

Conjugation

This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Conjugation of dessertir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	dessertir
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dessertissant /de.sɛʁ.ti.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		desserti /de.sɛʁ.ti/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	dessertis /de.sɛʁ.ti/	dessertis /de.sɛʁ.ti/	dessertit /de.sɛʁ.ti/	dessertissons /de.sɛʁ.ti.sɔ̃/	dessertissez /de.sɛʁ.ti.se/	dessertissent /de.sɛʁ.tis/
	imperfect	dessertissais /de.sɛʁ.ti.sɛ/	dessertissais /de.sɛʁ.ti.sɛ/	dessertissait /de.sɛʁ.ti.sɛ/	dessertissions /de.sɛʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/	dessertissiez /de.sɛʁ.ti.sje/	dessertissaient /de.sɛʁ.ti.sɛ/
	past historic2	dessertis /de.sɛʁ.ti/	dessertis /de.sɛʁ.ti/	dessertit /de.sɛʁ.ti/	dessertîmes /de.sɛʁ.tim/	dessertîtes /de.sɛʁ.tit/	dessertirent /de.sɛʁ.tiʁ/
	future	dessertirai /de.sɛʁ.ti.ʁe/	dessertiras /de.sɛʁ.ti.ʁa/	dessertira /de.sɛʁ.ti.ʁa/	dessertirons /de.sɛʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/	dessertirez /de.sɛʁ.ti.ʁe/	dessertiront /de.sɛʁ.ti.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	dessertirais /de.sɛʁ.ti.ʁɛ/	dessertirais /de.sɛʁ.ti.ʁɛ/	dessertirait /de.sɛʁ.ti.ʁɛ/	dessertirions /de.sɛʁ.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	dessertiriez /de.sɛʁ.ti.ʁje/	dessertiraient /de.sɛʁ.ti.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	dessertisse /de.sɛʁ.tis/	dessertisses /de.sɛʁ.tis/	dessertisse /de.sɛʁ.tis/	dessertissions /de.sɛʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/	dessertissiez /de.sɛʁ.ti.sje/	dessertissent /de.sɛʁ.tis/
	imperfect2	dessertisse /de.sɛʁ.tis/	dessertisses /de.sɛʁ.tis/	dessertît /de.sɛʁ.ti/	dessertissions /de.sɛʁ.ti.sjɔ̃/	dessertissiez /de.sɛʁ.ti.sje/	dessertissent /de.sɛʁ.tis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	dessertis /de.sɛʁ.ti/	—	dessertissons /de.sɛʁ.ti.sɔ̃/	dessertissez /de.sɛʁ.ti.se/	—
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

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