dissuader

English

Etymology

dissuade +‎ -er

Noun

dissuader (plural dissuaders)

1. One who dissuades.
   • 1827, The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, page 303:

     From all our experience on the subject, Members of Parliament have always been the dissuaders of the attempts of Dissenters; among whom an almost irrepressible impatience and disgust at their and their leaders' apathy have long existed.

Synonyms

• dehorter

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.sɥa.de/

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• Homophones: dissuadai, dissuadé, dissuadée, dissuadées, dissuadés, dissuadez

Verb

dissuader

1. to dissuade; to put off

Conjugation

Conjugation of dissuader (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	dissuader
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dissuadant /di.sɥa.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		dissuadé /di.sɥa.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	dissuade /di.sɥad/	dissuades /di.sɥad/	dissuade /di.sɥad/	dissuadons /di.sɥa.dɔ̃/	dissuadez /di.sɥa.de/	dissuadent /di.sɥad/
	imperfect	dissuadais /di.sɥa.dɛ/	dissuadais /di.sɥa.dɛ/	dissuadait /di.sɥa.dɛ/	dissuadions /di.sɥa.djɔ̃/	dissuadiez /di.sɥa.dje/	dissuadaient /di.sɥa.dɛ/
	past historic2	dissuadai /di.sɥa.de/	dissuadas /di.sɥa.da/	dissuada /di.sɥa.da/	dissuadâmes /di.sɥa.dam/	dissuadâtes /di.sɥa.dat/	dissuadèrent /di.sɥa.dɛʁ/
	future	dissuaderai /di.sɥa.dʁe/	dissuaderas /di.sɥa.dʁa/	dissuadera /di.sɥa.dʁa/	dissuaderons /di.sɥa.dʁɔ̃/	dissuaderez /di.sɥa.dʁe/	dissuaderont /di.sɥa.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	dissuaderais /di.sɥa.dʁɛ/	dissuaderais /di.sɥa.dʁɛ/	dissuaderait /di.sɥa.dʁɛ/	dissuaderions /di.sɥa.də.ʁjɔ̃/	dissuaderiez /di.sɥa.də.ʁje/	dissuaderaient /di.sɥa.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	dissuade /di.sɥad/	dissuades /di.sɥad/	dissuade /di.sɥad/	dissuadions /di.sɥa.djɔ̃/	dissuadiez /di.sɥa.dje/	dissuadent /di.sɥad/
	imperfect2	dissuadasse /di.sɥa.das/	dissuadasses /di.sɥa.das/	dissuadât /di.sɥa.da/	dissuadassions /di.sɥa.da.sjɔ̃/	dissuadassiez /di.sɥa.da.sje/	dissuadassent /di.sɥa.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	dissuade /di.sɥad/	—	dissuadons /di.sɥa.dɔ̃/	dissuadez /di.sɥa.de/	—
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).

Related terms

• persuader

Further reading

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