scinder

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scindere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃.de/

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Verb

scinder

1. (transitive) to split up, to divide

Conjugation

Conjugation of scinder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	scinder
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	scindant /sɛ̃.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		scindé /sɛ̃.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	scinde /sɛ̃d/	scindes /sɛ̃d/	scinde /sɛ̃d/	scindons /sɛ̃.dɔ̃/	scindez /sɛ̃.de/	scindent /sɛ̃d/
	imperfect	scindais /sɛ̃.dɛ/	scindais /sɛ̃.dɛ/	scindait /sɛ̃.dɛ/	scindions /sɛ̃.djɔ̃/	scindiez /sɛ̃.dje/	scindaient /sɛ̃.dɛ/
	past historic2	scindai /sɛ̃.de/	scindas /sɛ̃.da/	scinda /sɛ̃.da/	scindâmes /sɛ̃.dam/	scindâtes /sɛ̃.dat/	scindèrent /sɛ̃.dɛʁ/
	future	scinderai /sɛ̃.dʁe/	scinderas /sɛ̃.dʁa/	scindera /sɛ̃.dʁa/	scinderons /sɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/	scinderez /sɛ̃.dʁe/	scinderont /sɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	scinderais /sɛ̃.dʁɛ/	scinderais /sɛ̃.dʁɛ/	scinderait /sɛ̃.dʁɛ/	scinderions /sɛ̃.də.ʁjɔ̃/	scinderiez /sɛ̃.də.ʁje/	scinderaient /sɛ̃.dʁɛ/
(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	scinde /sɛ̃d/	scindes /sɛ̃d/	scinde /sɛ̃d/	scindions /sɛ̃.djɔ̃/	scindiez /sɛ̃.dje/	scindent /sɛ̃d/
	imperfect2	scindasse /sɛ̃.das/	scindasses /sɛ̃.das/	scindât /sɛ̃.da/	scindassions /sɛ̃.da.sjɔ̃/	scindassiez /sɛ̃.da.sje/	scindassent /sɛ̃.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	scinde /sɛ̃d/	—	scindons /sɛ̃.dɔ̃/	scindez /sɛ̃.de/	—
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

• scission

Further reading

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