divorcer
English
Noun
divorcer (plural divorcers)
- The person or cause that produces or effects a divorce.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for divorcer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Antonyms
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.vɔʁ.se/
Verb
divorcer
Conjugation
This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which ‘c’ is softened to a ‘ç’ before the vowels ‘a’ and ‘o’.
Conjugation of divorcer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | divorçant /di.vɔʁ.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | divorcé /di.vɔʁ.se/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | divorcer | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | divorçant /di.vɔʁ.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | divorce /di.vɔʁs/ |
divorces /di.vɔʁs/ |
divorce /di.vɔʁs/ |
divorçons /di.vɔʁ.sɔ̃/ |
divorcez /di.vɔʁ.se/ |
divorcent /di.vɔʁs/ |
| imperfect | divorçais /di.vɔʁ.sɛ/ |
divorçais /di.vɔʁ.sɛ/ |
divorçait /di.vɔʁ.sɛ/ |
divorcions /di.vɔʁ.sjɔ̃/ |
divorciez /di.vɔʁ.sje/ |
divorçaient /di.vɔʁ.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | divorçai /di.vɔʁ.se/ |
divorças /di.vɔʁ.sa/ |
divorça /di.vɔʁ.sa/ |
divorçâmes /di.vɔʁ.sam/ |
divorçâtes /di.vɔʁ.sat/ |
divorcèrent /di.vɔʁ.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | divorcerai /di.vɔʁ.sə.ʁe/ |
divorceras /di.vɔʁ.sə.ʁa/ |
divorcera /di.vɔʁ.sə.ʁa/ |
divorcerons /di.vɔʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/ |
divorcerez /di.vɔʁ.sə.ʁe/ |
divorceront /di.vɔʁ.sə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | divorcerais /di.vɔʁ.sə.ʁɛ/ |
divorcerais /di.vɔʁ.sə.ʁɛ/ |
divorcerait /di.vɔʁ.sə.ʁɛ/ |
divorcerions /di.vɔʁ.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
divorceriez /di.vɔʁ.sə.ʁje/ |
divorceraient /di.vɔʁ.sə.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 | divorce /di.vɔʁs/ |
divorces /di.vɔʁs/ |
divorce /di.vɔʁs/ |
divorcions /di.vɔʁ.sjɔ̃/ |
divorciez /di.vɔʁ.sje/ |
divorcent /di.vɔʁs/ |
| imperfect2 | divorçasse /di.vɔʁ.sas/ |
divorçasses /di.vɔʁ.sas/ |
divorçât /di.vɔʁ.sa/ |
divorçassions /di.vɔʁ.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
divorçassiez /di.vɔʁ.sa.sje/ |
divorçassent /di.vɔʁ.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | divorce /di.vɔʁs/ |
— | divorçons /di.vɔʁ.sɔ̃/ |
divorcez /di.vɔʁ.se/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “divorcer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman
Synonyms
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