régir

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See also: regir

French

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Etymology

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Semi-learned borrowing from Latin regere, with a change in conjugation. Cognate with Spanish regir.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʁe.ʒiʁ/
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Verb

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régir

  1. (transitive) to govern
    La grammaire étudie les règles qui régissent une langue donnée et permettent de construire des énoncés reconnus corrects par les locuteurs natifs de cette langue.
    Grammar is the study of the rules that govern a particular language and allow the construction of utterances that native speakers of that language recognize as correct.

Conjugation

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This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.

Derived terms

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Further reading

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