disjoindre

French

Etymology

From dis- +‎ joindre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.ʒwɛ̃dʁ/, /diz.ʒwɛ̃dʁ/, /di.ʒwɛ̃dʁ/
• Rhymes: -ɛ̃dʁ

Verb

disjoindre

1. (transitive) to separate
2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to come apart, separate

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like peindre. It uses the same endings as rendre or vendre, but its -nd- becomes -gn- before a vowel, and its past participle ends in 't' instead of a vowel.

Conjugation of disjoindre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	disjoindre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	disjoignant /dis.ʒwa.ɲɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		disjoint /dis.ʒwɛ̃/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	disjoins /dis.ʒwɛ̃/	disjoins /dis.ʒwɛ̃/	disjoint /dis.ʒwɛ̃/	disjoignons /dis.ʒwa.ɲɔ̃/	disjoignez /dis.ʒwa.ɲe/	disjoignent /dis.ʒwaɲ/
	imperfect	disjoignais /dis.ʒwa.ɲɛ/	disjoignais /dis.ʒwa.ɲɛ/	disjoignait /dis.ʒwa.ɲɛ/	disjoignions /dis.ʒwa.ɲjɔ̃/	disjoigniez /dis.ʒwa.ɲje/	disjoignaient /dis.ʒwa.ɲɛ/
	past historic2	disjoignis /dis.ʒwa.ɲi/	disjoignis /dis.ʒwa.ɲi/	disjoignit /dis.ʒwa.ɲi/	disjoignîmes /dis.ʒwa.ɲim/	disjoignîtes /dis.ʒwa.ɲit/	disjoignirent /dis.ʒwa.ɲiʁ/
	future	disjoindrai /dis.ʒwɛ̃.dʁe/	disjoindras /dis.ʒwɛ̃.dʁa/	disjoindra /dis.ʒwɛ̃.dʁa/	disjoindrons /dis.ʒwɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/	disjoindrez /dis.ʒwɛ̃.dʁe/	disjoindront /dis.ʒwɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	disjoindrais /dis.ʒwɛ̃.dʁɛ/	disjoindrais /dis.ʒwɛ̃.dʁɛ/	disjoindrait /dis.ʒwɛ̃.dʁɛ/	disjoindrions /dis.ʒwɛ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	disjoindriez /dis.ʒwɛ̃.dʁi.je/	disjoindraient /dis.ʒwɛ̃.dʁɛ/
(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	disjoigne /dis.ʒwaɲ/	disjoignes /dis.ʒwaɲ/	disjoigne /dis.ʒwaɲ/	disjoignions /dis.ʒwa.ɲjɔ̃/	disjoigniez /dis.ʒwa.ɲje/	disjoignent /dis.ʒwaɲ/
	imperfect2	disjoignisse /dis.ʒwa.ɲis/	disjoignisses /dis.ʒwa.ɲis/	disjoignît /dis.ʒwa.ɲi/	disjoignissions /dis.ʒwa.ɲi.sjɔ̃/	disjoignissiez /dis.ʒwa.ɲi.sje/	disjoignissent /dis.ʒwa.ɲis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	disjoins /dis.ʒwɛ̃/	—	disjoignons /dis.ʒwa.ɲɔ̃/	disjoignez /dis.ʒwa.ɲe/	—
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

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