déserter

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin dēsertāre, from Latin dēsertus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /de.zɛʁ.te/
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Verb

déserter

  1. (transitive) to desert (a place), abandon
    • 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, chapter IX, in Tristes Tropiques, Plon, published 1993, →ISBN, page 91; republished as John & Doreen Weightman, transl., Tristes Tropiques, Penguin, 2011, →ISBN:
      Villegaignon fonde, sur une île en pleine baie, le Fort-Coligny; les Indiens le construisent, ils ravitaillent la petite colonie; mais vite dégoûtés de donner sans recevoir, ils se sauvent, désertent leurs villages.
      — Villegaignon founded Fort Coligny on an island right in the centre of the bay; Indians built it and kept the small colony provided with food; but they soon wearied of giving without receiving anything in return, and fled, abandoning their villages.
  2. (intransitive, military) to desert

Conjugation

Conjugation of déserter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple déserter
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple désertant
/de.zɛʁ.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle déserté
/de.zɛʁ.te/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present déserte
/de.zɛʁt/ 		désertes
/de.zɛʁt/ 		déserte
/de.zɛʁt/ 		désertons
/de.zɛʁ.tɔ̃/ 		désertez
/de.zɛʁ.te/ 		désertent
/de.zɛʁt/
imperfect désertais
/de.zɛʁ.tɛ/ 		désertais
/de.zɛʁ.tɛ/ 		désertait
/de.zɛʁ.tɛ/ 		désertions
/de.zɛʁ.tjɔ̃/ 		désertiez
/de.zɛʁ.tje/ 		désertaient
/de.zɛʁ.tɛ/
past historic2 désertai
/de.zɛʁ.te/ 		désertas
/de.zɛʁ.ta/ 		déserta
/de.zɛʁ.ta/ 		désertâmes
/de.zɛʁ.tam/ 		désertâtes
/de.zɛʁ.tat/ 		désertèrent
/de.zɛʁ.tɛʁ/
future déserterai
/de.zɛʁ.tə.ʁe/ 		déserteras
/de.zɛʁ.tə.ʁa/ 		désertera
/de.zɛʁ.tə.ʁa/ 		déserterons
/de.zɛʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ 		déserterez
/de.zɛʁ.tə.ʁe/ 		déserteront
/de.zɛʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional déserterais
/de.zɛʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ 		déserterais
/de.zɛʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ 		déserterait
/de.zɛʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ 		déserterions
/de.zɛʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		déserteriez
/de.zɛʁ.tə.ʁje/ 		déserteraient
/de.zɛʁ.tə.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 déserte
/de.zɛʁt/ 		désertes
/de.zɛʁt/ 		déserte
/de.zɛʁt/ 		désertions
/de.zɛʁ.tjɔ̃/ 		désertiez
/de.zɛʁ.tje/ 		désertent
/de.zɛʁt/
imperfect2 désertasse
/de.zɛʁ.tas/ 		désertasses
/de.zɛʁ.tas/ 		désertât
/de.zɛʁ.ta/ 		désertassions
/de.zɛʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/ 		désertassiez
/de.zɛʁ.ta.sje/ 		désertassent
/de.zɛʁ.tas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — déserte
/de.zɛʁt/ 		— désertons
/de.zɛʁ.tɔ̃/ 		désertez
/de.zɛʁ.te/ 		—
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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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