dissoudre

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French dissoudre, from Old French dissoudre, from Latin dissolvo, from solvo, from luo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.sudʁ/

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Verb

dissoudre

1. (reflexive) to dissolve, break up, separate, disband
   • 2018, Zaz, On s'en remet jamais:

     Est-ce que tout ce qu'on a pas pu faire va se dissoudre dans le temps ?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (transitive) to dissolve, separate, disintegrate, disperse
3. (transitive, law) to separate the constituent elements of an institutional group or legal relationship between people, and thus get rid of that group (as a marriage, company, meeting of a National Assembly)
4. (transitive, law) to nullify (as a contract)

Conjugation

This verb has 2 masculine past participles, dissous (pre-1990 reform spelling) and dissout/dissouts (1990 reform spelling).

Conjugation of dissoudre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	dissoudre
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	dissolvant /di.sɔl.vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		dissous /di.su/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	dissous /di.su/	dissous /di.su/	dissout /di.su/	dissolvons /di.sɔl.vɔ̃/	dissolvez /di.sɔl.ve/	dissolvent /di.sɔlv/
	imperfect	dissolvais /di.sɔl.vɛ/	dissolvais /di.sɔl.vɛ/	dissolvait /di.sɔl.vɛ/	dissolvions /di.sɔl.vjɔ̃/	dissolviez /di.sɔl.vje/	dissolvaient /di.sɔl.vɛ/
	past historic2	dissolus /di.sɔ.ly/	dissolus /di.sɔ.ly/	dissolut /di.sɔ.ly/	dissolûmes /di.sɔ.lym/	dissolûtes /di.sɔ.lyt/	dissolurent /di.sɔ.lyʁ/
	future	dissoudrai /di.su.dʁe/	dissoudras /di.su.dʁa/	dissoudra /di.su.dʁa/	dissoudrons /di.su.dʁɔ̃/	dissoudrez /di.su.dʁe/	dissoudront /di.su.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	dissoudrais /di.su.dʁɛ/	dissoudrais /di.su.dʁɛ/	dissoudrait /di.su.dʁɛ/	dissoudrions /di.su.dʁi.jɔ̃/	dissoudriez /di.su.dʁi.je/	dissoudraient /di.su.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	dissolve /di.sɔlv/	dissolves /di.sɔlv/	dissolve /di.sɔlv/	dissolvions /di.sɔl.vjɔ̃/	dissolviez /di.sɔl.vje/	dissolvent /di.sɔlv/
	imperfect2	—	—	—	—	—	—
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	dissous /di.su/	—	dissolvons /di.sɔl.vɔ̃/	dissolvez /di.sɔl.ve/	—
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

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