diluer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dīluō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.lɥe/

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Verb

diluer

1. to dilute

Conjugation

Conjugation of diluer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	diluer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	diluant /di.lɥɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		dilué /di.lɥe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	dilue /di.ly/	dilues /di.ly/	dilue /di.ly/	diluons /di.lɥɔ̃/	diluez /di.lɥe/	diluent /di.ly/
	imperfect	diluais /di.lɥɛ/	diluais /di.lɥɛ/	diluait /di.lɥɛ/	diluions /di.ly.jɔ̃/	diluiez /di.ly.je/	diluaient /di.lɥɛ/
	past historic2	diluai /di.lɥe/	diluas /di.lɥa/	dilua /di.lɥa/	diluâmes /di.lɥam/	diluâtes /di.lɥat/	diluèrent /di.lɥɛʁ/
	future	diluerai /di.ly.ʁe/	dilueras /di.ly.ʁa/	diluera /di.ly.ʁa/	diluerons /di.ly.ʁɔ̃/	diluerez /di.ly.ʁe/	dilueront /di.ly.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	diluerais /di.ly.ʁɛ/	diluerais /di.ly.ʁɛ/	diluerait /di.ly.ʁɛ/	diluerions /di.ly.ʁjɔ̃/	dilueriez /di.ly.ʁje/	dilueraient /di.ly.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	dilue /di.ly/	dilues /di.ly/	dilue /di.ly/	diluions /di.ly.jɔ̃/	diluiez /di.ly.je/	diluent /di.ly/
	imperfect2	diluasse /di.lɥas/	diluasses /di.lɥas/	diluât /di.lɥa/	diluassions /di.lɥa.sjɔ̃/	diluassiez /di.lɥa.sje/	diluassent /di.lɥas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	dilue /di.ly/	—	diluons /di.lɥɔ̃/	diluez /di.lɥe/	—
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).

Derived terms

• dilution

Further reading

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