désinvestir
French, verb/de.zɛ̃.vɛs.tiʁ/
désinvestir is spelled D-É-S-I-N-V-E-S-T-I-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 25 million words in written French, the 161,134th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Désinvestir is a French verb meaning “to divest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Diminuer ou supprimer un investissement”.
What does désinvestir mean in English?
verb
- 1
to divest
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Diminuer ou supprimer un investissement. 2. Cesser de s’investir dans une action, une organisation…
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of désinvestir
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- désinvestissant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- désinvesti participle past
- désinvestis first-person indicative present
- désinvestit indicative present singular
- désinvestissons first-person indicative plural
- désinvestissez indicative plural present
- désinvestissent indicative plural present
- désinvestissais first-person imperfect indicative
- désinvestissait imperfect indicative singular
- désinvestissions first-person imperfect indicative
- désinvestissiez imperfect indicative plural
- désinvestissaient imperfect indicative plural
- désinvestîmes first-person historic indicative
- désinvestîtes historic indicative past
- désinvestirent historic indicative past
- désinvestirai first-person future indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce désinvestir?
- /de.zɛ̃.vɛs.tiʁ/
- \de.zɛ̃.vɛs.tiʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is désinvestir in French?
désinvestir appears about once in every 25 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).