expurger

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin expurgāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒe/

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Verb

expurger

1. to expurgate

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written expurge- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

Conjugation of expurger (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	expurger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	expurgeant /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		expurgé /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	expurge /ɛk.spyʁʒ/	expurges /ɛk.spyʁʒ/	expurge /ɛk.spyʁʒ/	expurgeons /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒɔ̃/	expurgez /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒe/	expurgent /ɛk.spyʁʒ/
	imperfect	expurgeais /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒɛ/	expurgeais /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒɛ/	expurgeait /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒɛ/	expurgions /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒjɔ̃/	expurgiez /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒje/	expurgeaient /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	expurgeai /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒe/	expurgeas /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒa/	expurgea /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒa/	expurgeâmes /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒam/	expurgeâtes /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒat/	expurgèrent /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒɛʁ/
	future	expurgerai /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒə.ʁe/	expurgeras /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒə.ʁa/	expurgera /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒə.ʁa/	expurgerons /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/	expurgerez /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒə.ʁe/	expurgeront /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	expurgerais /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	expurgerais /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	expurgerait /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	expurgerions /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	expurgeriez /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒə.ʁje/	expurgeraient /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒə.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	expurge /ɛk.spyʁʒ/	expurges /ɛk.spyʁʒ/	expurge /ɛk.spyʁʒ/	expurgions /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒjɔ̃/	expurgiez /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒje/	expurgent /ɛk.spyʁʒ/
	imperfect2	expurgeasse /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒas/	expurgeasses /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒas/	expurgeât /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒa/	expurgeassions /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	expurgeassiez /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒa.sje/	expurgeassent /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	expurge /ɛk.spyʁʒ/	—	expurgeons /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒɔ̃/	expurgez /ɛk.spyʁ.ʒe/	—
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

• purger

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

expūrger

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of expūrgō