ériger

See also: eriger

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ērigere. Compare Old French erdre, which was inherited.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.ʁi.ʒe/

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Verb

ériger

1. (transitive) to erect

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written érige- 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 ériger (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ériger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	érigeant /e.ʁi.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		érigé /e.ʁi.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	érige /e.ʁiʒ/	ériges /e.ʁiʒ/	érige /e.ʁiʒ/	érigeons /e.ʁi.ʒɔ̃/	érigez /e.ʁi.ʒe/	érigent /e.ʁiʒ/
	imperfect	érigeais /e.ʁi.ʒɛ/	érigeais /e.ʁi.ʒɛ/	érigeait /e.ʁi.ʒɛ/	érigions /e.ʁi.ʒjɔ̃/	érigiez /e.ʁi.ʒje/	érigeaient /e.ʁi.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	érigeai /e.ʁi.ʒe/	érigeas /e.ʁi.ʒa/	érigea /e.ʁi.ʒa/	érigeâmes /e.ʁi.ʒam/	érigeâtes /e.ʁi.ʒat/	érigèrent /e.ʁi.ʒɛʁ/
	future	érigerai /e.ʁiʒ.ʁe/	érigeras /e.ʁiʒ.ʁa/	érigera /e.ʁiʒ.ʁa/	érigerons /e.ʁiʒ.ʁɔ̃/	érigerez /e.ʁiʒ.ʁe/	érigeront /e.ʁiʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	érigerais /e.ʁiʒ.ʁɛ/	érigerais /e.ʁiʒ.ʁɛ/	érigerait /e.ʁiʒ.ʁɛ/	érigerions /e.ʁi.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	érigeriez /e.ʁi.ʒə.ʁje/	érigeraient /e.ʁiʒ.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	érige /e.ʁiʒ/	ériges /e.ʁiʒ/	érige /e.ʁiʒ/	érigions /e.ʁi.ʒjɔ̃/	érigiez /e.ʁi.ʒje/	érigent /e.ʁiʒ/
	imperfect2	érigeasse /e.ʁi.ʒas/	érigeasses /e.ʁi.ʒas/	érigeât /e.ʁi.ʒa/	érigeassions /e.ʁi.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	érigeassiez /e.ʁi.ʒa.sje/	érigeassent /e.ʁi.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	érige /e.ʁiʒ/	—	érigeons /e.ʁi.ʒɔ̃/	érigez /e.ʁi.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

• érection

Further reading

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