diviser

French

Etymology

Alteration, based on the Latin etymology, of Old French deviser, itself from a Vulgar Latin *devisāre < *divisāre, from Latin dīvīsum, supine of dīvidō (“to divide”). Compare deviser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.vi.ze/

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Verb

diviser

1. to divide
2. (mathematics) to divide

Conjugation

Conjugation of diviser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	diviser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	divisant /di.vi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		divisé /di.vi.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	divise /di.viz/	divises /di.viz/	divise /di.viz/	divisons /di.vi.zɔ̃/	divisez /di.vi.ze/	divisent /di.viz/
	imperfect	divisais /di.vi.zɛ/	divisais /di.vi.zɛ/	divisait /di.vi.zɛ/	divisions /di.vi.zjɔ̃/	divisiez /di.vi.zje/	divisaient /di.vi.zɛ/
	past historic2	divisai /di.vi.ze/	divisas /di.vi.za/	divisa /di.vi.za/	divisâmes /di.vi.zam/	divisâtes /di.vi.zat/	divisèrent /di.vi.zɛʁ/
	future	diviserai /di.viz.ʁe/	diviseras /di.viz.ʁa/	divisera /di.viz.ʁa/	diviserons /di.viz.ʁɔ̃/	diviserez /di.viz.ʁe/	diviseront /di.viz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	diviserais /di.viz.ʁɛ/	diviserais /di.viz.ʁɛ/	diviserait /di.viz.ʁɛ/	diviserions /di.vi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	diviseriez /di.vi.zə.ʁje/	diviseraient /di.viz.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	divise /di.viz/	divises /di.viz/	divise /di.viz/	divisions /di.vi.zjɔ̃/	divisiez /di.vi.zje/	divisent /di.viz/
	imperfect2	divisasse /di.vi.zas/	divisasses /di.vi.zas/	divisât /di.vi.za/	divisassions /di.vi.za.sjɔ̃/	divisassiez /di.vi.za.sje/	divisassent /di.vi.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	divise /di.viz/	—	divisons /di.vi.zɔ̃/	divisez /di.vi.ze/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• diviseur
• divisibilité
• divisible
  • indivisible
• division
• divisionnaire
• divisionnisme
• divisionniste

Further reading

• “diviser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.