lessiver
French
Etymology
From lessive (“laundry”) + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /le.si.ve/
Audio: (file)
Verb
lessiver
- (transitive) to launder, to wash clothes
- J'ai lessivé ma couette au lavomatique.
- I've washed my duvet at the launderette.
- (intransitive, figuratively) to tire out
- Je suis lessivé.
- I'm tired out.
Conjugation
Conjugation of lessiver (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | lessiver | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | lessivant /le.si.vɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | lessivé /le.si.ve/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | lessive /le.siv/ |
lessives /le.siv/ |
lessive /le.siv/ |
lessivons /le.si.vɔ̃/ |
lessivez /le.si.ve/ |
lessivent /le.siv/ |
| imperfect | lessivais /le.si.vɛ/ |
lessivais /le.si.vɛ/ |
lessivait /le.si.vɛ/ |
lessivions /le.si.vjɔ̃/ |
lessiviez /le.si.vje/ |
lessivaient /le.si.vɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | lessivai /le.si.ve/ |
lessivas /le.si.va/ |
lessiva /le.si.va/ |
lessivâmes /le.si.vam/ |
lessivâtes /le.si.vat/ |
lessivèrent /le.si.vɛʁ/ | |
| future | lessiverai /le.si.vʁe/ |
lessiveras /le.si.vʁa/ |
lessivera /le.si.vʁa/ |
lessiverons /le.si.vʁɔ̃/ |
lessiverez /le.si.vʁe/ |
lessiveront /le.si.vʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | lessiverais /le.si.vʁɛ/ |
lessiverais /le.si.vʁɛ/ |
lessiverait /le.si.vʁɛ/ |
lessiverions /le.si.və.ʁjɔ̃/ |
lessiveriez /le.si.və.ʁje/ |
lessiveraient /le.si.vʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | lessive /le.siv/ |
lessives /le.siv/ |
lessive /le.siv/ |
lessivions /le.si.vjɔ̃/ |
lessiviez /le.si.vje/ |
lessivent /le.siv/ |
| imperfect2 | lessivasse /le.si.vas/ |
lessivasses /le.si.vas/ |
lessivât /le.si.va/ |
lessivassions /le.si.va.sjɔ̃/ |
lessivassiez /le.si.va.sje/ |
lessivassent /le.si.vas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | lessive /le.siv/ |
— | lessivons /le.si.vɔ̃/ |
lessivez /le.si.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “lessiver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.