mitiger
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Verb
mitiger
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written mitige- 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 mitiger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | mitiger | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | mitigeant /mi.ti.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | mitigé /mi.ti.ʒe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | mitige /mi.tiʒ/ |
mitiges /mi.tiʒ/ |
mitige /mi.tiʒ/ |
mitigeons /mi.ti.ʒɔ̃/ |
mitigez /mi.ti.ʒe/ |
mitigent /mi.tiʒ/ |
| imperfect | mitigeais /mi.ti.ʒɛ/ |
mitigeais /mi.ti.ʒɛ/ |
mitigeait /mi.ti.ʒɛ/ |
mitigions /mi.ti.ʒjɔ̃/ |
mitigiez /mi.ti.ʒje/ |
mitigeaient /mi.ti.ʒɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | mitigeai /mi.ti.ʒe/ |
mitigeas /mi.ti.ʒa/ |
mitigea /mi.ti.ʒa/ |
mitigeâmes /mi.ti.ʒam/ |
mitigeâtes /mi.ti.ʒat/ |
mitigèrent /mi.ti.ʒɛʁ/ | |
| future | mitigerai /mi.tiʒ.ʁe/ |
mitigeras /mi.tiʒ.ʁa/ |
mitigera /mi.tiʒ.ʁa/ |
mitigerons /mi.tiʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
mitigerez /mi.tiʒ.ʁe/ |
mitigeront /mi.tiʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | mitigerais /mi.tiʒ.ʁɛ/ |
mitigerais /mi.tiʒ.ʁɛ/ |
mitigerait /mi.tiʒ.ʁɛ/ |
mitigerions /mi.ti.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
mitigeriez /mi.ti.ʒə.ʁje/ |
mitigeraient /mi.tiʒ.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 | mitige /mi.tiʒ/ |
mitiges /mi.tiʒ/ |
mitige /mi.tiʒ/ |
mitigions /mi.ti.ʒjɔ̃/ |
mitigiez /mi.ti.ʒje/ |
mitigent /mi.tiʒ/ |
| imperfect2 | mitigeasse /mi.ti.ʒas/ |
mitigeasses /mi.ti.ʒas/ |
mitigeât /mi.ti.ʒa/ |
mitigeassions /mi.ti.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
mitigeassiez /mi.ti.ʒa.sje/ |
mitigeassent /mi.ti.ʒas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | mitige /mi.tiʒ/ |
— | mitigeons /mi.ti.ʒɔ̃/ |
mitigez /mi.ti.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “mitiger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) mītiger