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desister
desister
See also: désister
Middle French
Verb
desister
- (almost always reflexive, se desister) to stop; to desist
- 1581, Guill. Roville, Promptuaire des medalles des plus renommees personnes qui ont esté depuis le commencement du monde: avec brieve description de leurs vies & faits, recueillie des bons auteurs, page 73, line 10
- à fin de le faire desister de la guerre
- in order to make him desist from the war
- à fin de le faire desister de la guerre
- 1581, Guill. Roville, Promptuaire des medalles des plus renommees personnes qui ont esté depuis le commencement du monde: avec brieve description de leurs vies & faits, recueillie des bons auteurs, page 73, line 10
Conjugation
- Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of desister
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | desister | avoir desisté | |||||
| gerund | en desistant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | desistant | ||||||
| past participle | desisté | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | ie (may be i' before a vowel) | tu | il | nous | vous | ilz, elles | |
| simple tenses |
present | desiste | desistes | desiste | desistons | desistez | desistent |
| imperfect | desistois, desistoys | desistois, desistoys | desistoit, desistoyt | desistions, desistyons | desistiez, desistyez | desistoient, desistoyent | |
| past historic | desista | desistas | desista | desistasmes | desistastes | desisterent | |
| future | desisterai, desisteray | desisteras | desistera | desisterons | desisterez | desisteront | |
| conditional | desisterois, desisteroys | desisterois, desisteroys | desisteroit, desisteroyt | desisterions, desisteryons | desisteriez, desisteryez | desisteroient, desisteroyent | |
| 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 anterior | 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 ie | que tu | qu'il | que nous | que vous | qu'ilz, qu'elles | |
| simple tenses |
present | desiste | desistes | desiste | desistons | desistez | desistent |
| imperfect | desistasse | desistasses | desistast | desistassions | desistassiez | desistassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | desiste | — | desistons | desistez | — | ||