assiéger
See also: assieger
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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)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | assiéger | avoir assiégé | |||||
| gerund | en assiégeant | en ayant assiégé | |||||
| present participle | assiégeant /a.sje.ʒɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | assiégé /a.sje.ʒe/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| 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 historic1 | 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 | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | assiège /a.sjɛʒ/ |
assièges /a.sjɛʒ/ |
assiège /a.sjɛʒ/ |
assiégions /a.sje.ʒjɔ̃/ |
assiégiez /a.sje.ʒje/ |
assiègent /a.sjɛʒ/ |
| imperfect1 | 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 | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | assiège /a.sjɛʒ/ |
— | assiégeons /a.sje.ʒɔ̃/ |
assiégez /a.sje.ʒe/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “assiéger” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
