assiéger
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French [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
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Verb [edit]
assiéger
- To besiege; to lay siege to
Conjugation [edit]
- This verb is conjugated like {{term|protéger. It has both the spelling irregularities of other verbs in -ger (such as manger), where a silent ‘e’ is inserted before ‘a’ and ‘o’ endings (to indicate the /ʒ/ sound), and the spelling and pronunciation irregularities of other verbs in -é-er (such as céder), where the last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’).
Conjugation of assiéger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | assiéger | avoir or être assiégé | |||||
| gerund | en assiégeant | Use the gerund of avoir or être followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | assiégeant | ||||||
| past participle | assiégé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | assiège | assièges | assiège | assiégeons | assiégez | assiègent |
| imperfect | assiégeais | assiégeais | assiégeait | assiégions | assiégiez | assiégeaient | |
| past historic1 | assiégeai | assiégeas | assiégea | assiégeâmes | assiégeâtes | assiégèrent | |
| future | assiègerai or assiégerai | assiègeras or assiégeras | assiègera or assiégera | assiègerons or assiégerons | assiègerez or assiégerez | assiègeront or assiégeront | |
| conditional | assiègerais or assiégerais | assiègerais or assiégerais | assiègerait or assiégerait | assiègerions or assiégerions | assiègeriez or assiégeriez | assiègeraient or assiégeraient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | assiège | assièges | assiège | assiégions | assiégiez | assiègent |
| imperfect1 | assiégeasse | assiégeasses | assiégeât | assiégeassions | assiégeassiez | assiégeassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir or être followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir or être followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | assiège | — | assiégeons | assiégez | — | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||