exhéréder

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exhērēdō. Related to héritier, etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.de/

Verb

exhéréder

1. (law, transitive) to disinherit

Usage notes

The standard word is déshériter; exhéréder is formal and restricted to legal discourse.

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written 'é') and /ɛ/ (written 'è'), with the latter being used before mute 'e'. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written exhéréder-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written exhérèder-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.

Conjugation of exhéréder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	exhéréder
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	exhérédant /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		exhérédé /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	exhérède /ɛɡ.ze.ʁɛd/	exhérèdes /ɛɡ.ze.ʁɛd/	exhérède /ɛɡ.ze.ʁɛd/	exhérédons /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.dɔ̃/	exhérédez /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.de/	exhérèdent /ɛɡ.ze.ʁɛd/
	imperfect	exhérédais /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.dɛ/	exhérédais /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.dɛ/	exhérédait /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.dɛ/	exhérédions /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.djɔ̃/	exhérédiez /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.dje/	exhérédaient /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.dɛ/
	past historic2	exhérédai /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.de/	exhérédas /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.da/	exhéréda /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.da/	exhérédâmes /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.dam/	exhérédâtes /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.dat/	exhérédèrent /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.dɛʁ/
	future	exhérèderai or exhéréderai /ɛɡ.ze.ʁɛ.dʁe/ or /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.dʁe/	exhérèderas or exhéréderas /ɛɡ.ze.ʁɛ.dʁa/ or /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.dʁa/	exhérèdera or exhérédera /ɛɡ.ze.ʁɛ.dʁa/ or /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.dʁa/	exhérèderons or exhéréderons /ɛɡ.ze.ʁɛ.dʁɔ̃/ or /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.dʁɔ̃/	exhérèderez or exhéréderez /ɛɡ.ze.ʁɛ.dʁe/ or /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.dʁe/	exhérèderont or exhéréderont /ɛɡ.ze.ʁɛ.dʁɔ̃/ or /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	exhérèderais or exhéréderais /ɛɡ.ze.ʁɛ.dʁɛ/ or /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.dʁɛ/	exhérèderais or exhéréderais /ɛɡ.ze.ʁɛ.dʁɛ/ or /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.dʁɛ/	exhérèderait or exhéréderait /ɛɡ.ze.ʁɛ.dʁɛ/ or /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.dʁɛ/	exhérèderions or exhéréderions /ɛɡ.ze.ʁɛ.də.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.də.ʁjɔ̃/	exhérèderiez or exhéréderiez /ɛɡ.ze.ʁɛ.də.ʁje/ or /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.də.ʁje/	exhérèderaient or exhéréderaient /ɛɡ.ze.ʁɛ.dʁɛ/ or /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.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	exhérède /ɛɡ.ze.ʁɛd/	exhérèdes /ɛɡ.ze.ʁɛd/	exhérède /ɛɡ.ze.ʁɛd/	exhérédions /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.djɔ̃/	exhérédiez /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.dje/	exhérèdent /ɛɡ.ze.ʁɛd/
	imperfect2	exhérédasse /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.das/	exhérédasses /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.das/	exhérédât /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.da/	exhérédassions /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.da.sjɔ̃/	exhérédassiez /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.da.sje/	exhérédassent /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	exhérède /ɛɡ.ze.ʁɛd/	—	exhérédons /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.dɔ̃/	exhérédez /ɛɡ.ze.ʁe.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).

Derived terms

• exhérédation

Further reading

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