destituer

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

destituer

1. (transitive) to discharge, to relieve (one from their duty), to depose (someone from the throne)

Conjugation

Conjugation of destituer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	destituer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	destituant /dɛs.ti.tɥɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		destitué /dɛs.ti.tɥe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	destitue /dɛs.ti.ty/	destitues /dɛs.ti.ty/	destitue /dɛs.ti.ty/	destituons /dɛs.ti.tɥɔ̃/	destituez /dɛs.ti.tɥe/	destituent /dɛs.ti.ty/
	imperfect	destituais /dɛs.ti.tɥɛ/	destituais /dɛs.ti.tɥɛ/	destituait /dɛs.ti.tɥɛ/	destituions /dɛs.ti.ty.jɔ̃/	destituiez /dɛs.ti.ty.je/	destituaient /dɛs.ti.tɥɛ/
	past historic2	destituai /dɛs.ti.tɥe/	destituas /dɛs.ti.tɥa/	destitua /dɛs.ti.tɥa/	destituâmes /dɛs.ti.tɥam/	destituâtes /dɛs.ti.tɥat/	destituèrent /dɛs.ti.tɥɛʁ/
	future	destituerai /dɛs.ti.ty.ʁe/	destitueras /dɛs.ti.ty.ʁa/	destituera /dɛs.ti.ty.ʁa/	destituerons /dɛs.ti.ty.ʁɔ̃/	destituerez /dɛs.ti.ty.ʁe/	destitueront /dɛs.ti.ty.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	destituerais /dɛs.ti.ty.ʁɛ/	destituerais /dɛs.ti.ty.ʁɛ/	destituerait /dɛs.ti.ty.ʁɛ/	destituerions /dɛs.ti.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	destitueriez /dɛs.ti.ty.ʁje/	destitueraient /dɛs.ti.ty.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	destitue /dɛs.ti.ty/	destitues /dɛs.ti.ty/	destitue /dɛs.ti.ty/	destituions /dɛs.ti.ty.jɔ̃/	destituiez /dɛs.ti.ty.je/	destituent /dɛs.ti.ty/
	imperfect2	destituasse /dɛs.ti.tɥas/	destituasses /dɛs.ti.tɥas/	destituât /dɛs.ti.tɥa/	destituassions /dɛs.ti.tɥa.sjɔ̃/	destituassiez /dɛs.ti.tɥa.sje/	destituassent /dɛs.ti.tɥas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	destitue /dɛs.ti.ty/	—	destituons /dɛs.ti.tɥɔ̃/	destituez /dɛs.ti.tɥe/	—
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

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