désappointer
French
Etymology
From dés- + appointer. The sense of "disappoint" is a semantic loan from English disappoint.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.za.pwɛ̃.te/
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Verb
désappointer
- (obsolete) to dismiss
- to disappoint
- Synonym: décevoir
Conjugation
Conjugation of désappointer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | désappointer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | désappointant /de.za.pwɛ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | désappointé /de.za.pwɛ̃.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | désappointe /de.za.pwɛ̃t/ |
désappointes /de.za.pwɛ̃t/ |
désappointe /de.za.pwɛ̃t/ |
désappointons /de.za.pwɛ̃.tɔ̃/ |
désappointez /de.za.pwɛ̃.te/ |
désappointent /de.za.pwɛ̃t/ |
| imperfect | désappointais /de.za.pwɛ̃.tɛ/ |
désappointais /de.za.pwɛ̃.tɛ/ |
désappointait /de.za.pwɛ̃.tɛ/ |
désappointions /de.za.pwɛ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
désappointiez /de.za.pwɛ̃.tje/ |
désappointaient /de.za.pwɛ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | désappointai /de.za.pwɛ̃.te/ |
désappointas /de.za.pwɛ̃.ta/ |
désappointa /de.za.pwɛ̃.ta/ |
désappointâmes /de.za.pwɛ̃.tam/ |
désappointâtes /de.za.pwɛ̃.tat/ |
désappointèrent /de.za.pwɛ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | désappointerai /de.za.pwɛ̃.tʁe/ |
désappointeras /de.za.pwɛ̃.tʁa/ |
désappointera /de.za.pwɛ̃.tʁa/ |
désappointerons /de.za.pwɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
désappointerez /de.za.pwɛ̃.tʁe/ |
désappointeront /de.za.pwɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | désappointerais /de.za.pwɛ̃.tʁɛ/ |
désappointerais /de.za.pwɛ̃.tʁɛ/ |
désappointerait /de.za.pwɛ̃.tʁɛ/ |
désappointerions /de.za.pwɛ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
désappointeriez /de.za.pwɛ̃.tə.ʁje/ |
désappointeraient /de.za.pwɛ̃.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | désappointe /de.za.pwɛ̃t/ |
désappointes /de.za.pwɛ̃t/ |
désappointe /de.za.pwɛ̃t/ |
désappointions /de.za.pwɛ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
désappointiez /de.za.pwɛ̃.tje/ |
désappointent /de.za.pwɛ̃t/ |
| imperfect2 | désappointasse /de.za.pwɛ̃.tas/ |
désappointasses /de.za.pwɛ̃.tas/ |
désappointât /de.za.pwɛ̃.ta/ |
désappointassions /de.za.pwɛ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
désappointassiez /de.za.pwɛ̃.ta.sje/ |
désappointassent /de.za.pwɛ̃.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | désappointe /de.za.pwɛ̃t/ |
— | désappointons /de.za.pwɛ̃.tɔ̃/ |
désappointez /de.za.pwɛ̃.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “désappointer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.