dessiller

French

Alternative forms

• déciller (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Old French descillier. By surface analysis, dé- +‎ cil +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.si.je/

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Verb

dessiller

1. (transitive, figurative) to open (someone's eyes) (to make them see or understand something)

   dessiller les yeux de quelqu’un ― to open someone's eyes

Conjugation

Conjugation of dessiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	dessiller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dessillant /de.si.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		dessillé /de.si.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	dessille /de.sij/	dessilles /de.sij/	dessille /de.sij/	dessillons /de.si.jɔ̃/	dessillez /de.si.je/	dessillent /de.sij/
	imperfect	dessillais /de.si.jɛ/	dessillais /de.si.jɛ/	dessillait /de.si.jɛ/	dessillions /de.sij.jɔ̃/	dessilliez /de.sij.je/	dessillaient /de.si.jɛ/
	past historic2	dessillai /de.si.je/	dessillas /de.si.ja/	dessilla /de.si.ja/	dessillâmes /de.si.jam/	dessillâtes /de.si.jat/	dessillèrent /de.si.jɛʁ/
	future	dessillerai /de.sij.ʁe/	dessilleras /de.sij.ʁa/	dessillera /de.sij.ʁa/	dessillerons /de.sij.ʁɔ̃/	dessillerez /de.sij.ʁe/	dessilleront /de.sij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	dessillerais /de.sij.ʁɛ/	dessillerais /de.sij.ʁɛ/	dessillerait /de.sij.ʁɛ/	dessillerions /de.si.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	dessilleriez /de.si.jə.ʁje/	dessilleraient /de.sij.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	dessille /de.sij/	dessilles /de.sij/	dessille /de.sij/	dessillions /de.sij.jɔ̃/	dessilliez /de.sij.je/	dessillent /de.sij/
	imperfect2	dessillasse /de.si.jas/	dessillasses /de.si.jas/	dessillât /de.si.ja/	dessillassions /de.si.ja.sjɔ̃/	dessillassiez /de.si.ja.sje/	dessillassent /de.si.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	dessille /de.sij/	—	dessillons /de.si.jɔ̃/	dessillez /de.si.je/	—
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

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