assiéger
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See also: assieger
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
assiéger
- (transitive) to besiege; to lay siege to
Conjugation[edit]
This verb is conjugated like 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)
| infinitive | simple | assiéger | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | assiégeant /a.sje.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | assiégé /a.sje.ʒe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | assiège /a.sjɛʒ/ |
assièges /a.sjɛʒ/ |
assiège /a.sjɛʒ/ |
assiégeons /a.sje.ʒɔ̃/ |
assiégez /a.sje.ʒe/ |
assiègent /a.sjɛʒ/ |
| imperfect | assiégeais /a.sje.ʒɛ/ |
assiégeais /a.sje.ʒɛ/ |
assiégeait /a.sje.ʒɛ/ |
assiégions /a.sje.ʒjɔ̃/ |
assiégiez /a.sje.ʒje/ |
assiégeaient /a.sje.ʒɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | assiégeai /a.sje.ʒe/ |
assiégeas /a.sje.ʒa/ |
assiégea /a.sje.ʒa/ |
assiégeâmes /a.sje.ʒam/ |
assiégeâtes /a.sje.ʒat/ |
assiégèrent /a.sje.ʒɛʁ/ | |
| future | assiégerai or assiègerai /a.sjɛʒ.ʁe/ |
assiégeras or assiègeras /a.sjɛʒ.ʁa/ |
assiégera or assiègera /a.sjɛʒ.ʁa/ |
assiégerons or assiègerons /a.sjɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
assiégerez or assiègerez /a.sjɛʒ.ʁe/ |
assiégeront or assiègeront /a.sjɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | assiégerais or assiègerais /a.sjɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
assiégerais or assiègerais /a.sjɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
assiégerait or assiègerait /a.sjɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
assiégerions or assiègerions /a.sjɛ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
assiégeriez or assiègeriez /a.sjɛ.ʒə.ʁje/ |
assiégeraient or assiègeraient /a.sjɛʒ.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 | assiège /a.sjɛʒ/ |
assièges /a.sjɛʒ/ |
assiège /a.sjɛʒ/ |
assiégions /a.sje.ʒjɔ̃/ |
assiégiez /a.sje.ʒje/ |
assiègent /a.sjɛʒ/ |
| imperfect2 | assiégeasse /a.sje.ʒas/ |
assiégeasses /a.sje.ʒas/ |
assiégeât /a.sje.ʒa/ |
assiégeassions /a.sje.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
assiégeassiez /a.sje.ʒa.sje/ |
assiégeassent /a.sje.ʒas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | assiège /a.sjɛʒ/ |
— | assiégeons /a.sje.ʒɔ̃/ |
assiégez /a.sje.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 only usable with the preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “assiéger” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).