divorcer
English
Etymology
Noun
divorcer (plural divorcers)
- The person or cause that produces or effects a divorce.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Drummond to this entry?)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)
Antonym
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.vɔʁ.se/
Verb
divorcer
- (transitive) to divorce (to legally dissolve a marriage)
- (reflexive, se divorcer) to get divorced, to divorce one another
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)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | divorcer | avoir divorcé | |||||
| gerund | en divorçant | en ayant divorcé | |||||
| present participle | divorçant /di.vɔʁ.sɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | divorcé /di.vɔʁ.se/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| 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 historic1 | 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 | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | divorce /di.vɔʁs/ |
divorces /di.vɔʁs/ |
divorce /di.vɔʁs/ |
divorcions /di.vɔʁ.sjɔ̃/ |
divorciez /di.vɔʁ.sje/ |
divorcent /di.vɔʁs/ |
| imperfect1 | 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 | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | divorce /di.vɔʁs/ |
— | divorçons /di.vɔʁ.sɔ̃/ |
divorcez /di.vɔʁ.se/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “divorcer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman
Verb
divorcer
Synonyms
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