déroger

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See also: deroger

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin dērogāre.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /de.ʁɔ.ʒe/
  • (file)

Verb[edit]

déroger

  1. to repeal (a law)
  2. to break, contravene, infringe (a law), to break away (from a tradition) [+ à (object)]
    Ceux qui y dérogent risquent jusqu’à la peine de mort.
    Those who violate it can risk as much as the death penalty.
    Il a dérogé à son habitude de se retirer à huit heures
    He broke his habit of retiring at eight o'clock.
    • 2020, Mathieu Feryn, Where is the jazz ? Une approche communicationnelle des mondes du jazz - (2000-2020), →ISBN, page 17:
      Elle déroge à la plus élémentaire discipline académique. Mais, ce mouvement d’introspection est pour moi necessaire.
      It contravenes the most basic academic discipline. But this movement of introspection is necessary for me.

Conjugation[edit]

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written déroge- 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.

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