privilégier

See also: privilegier

French

Verb

privilégier

1. to privilege, to favour

Conjugation

Conjugation of privilégier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	privilégier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	privilégiant /pʁi.vi.le.ʒjɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		privilégié /pʁi.vi.le.ʒje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	privilégie /pʁi.vi.le.ʒi/	privilégies /pʁi.vi.le.ʒi/	privilégie /pʁi.vi.le.ʒi/	privilégions /pʁi.vi.le.ʒjɔ̃/	privilégiez /pʁi.vi.le.ʒje/	privilégient /pʁi.vi.le.ʒi/
	imperfect	privilégiais /pʁi.vi.le.ʒjɛ/	privilégiais /pʁi.vi.le.ʒjɛ/	privilégiait /pʁi.vi.le.ʒjɛ/	privilégiions /pʁi.vi.le.ʒi.jɔ̃/	privilégiiez /pʁi.vi.le.ʒi.je/	privilégiaient /pʁi.vi.le.ʒjɛ/
	past historic2	privilégiai /pʁi.vi.le.ʒje/	privilégias /pʁi.vi.le.ʒja/	privilégia /pʁi.vi.le.ʒja/	privilégiâmes /pʁi.vi.le.ʒjam/	privilégiâtes /pʁi.vi.le.ʒjat/	privilégièrent /pʁi.vi.le.ʒjɛʁ/
	future	privilégierai /pʁi.vi.le.ʒi.ʁe/	privilégieras /pʁi.vi.le.ʒi.ʁa/	privilégiera /pʁi.vi.le.ʒi.ʁa/	privilégierons /pʁi.vi.le.ʒi.ʁɔ̃/	privilégierez /pʁi.vi.le.ʒi.ʁe/	privilégieront /pʁi.vi.le.ʒi.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	privilégierais /pʁi.vi.le.ʒi.ʁɛ/	privilégierais /pʁi.vi.le.ʒi.ʁɛ/	privilégierait /pʁi.vi.le.ʒi.ʁɛ/	privilégierions /pʁi.vi.le.ʒi.ʁjɔ̃/	privilégieriez /pʁi.vi.le.ʒi.ʁje/	privilégieraient /pʁi.vi.le.ʒi.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	privilégie /pʁi.vi.le.ʒi/	privilégies /pʁi.vi.le.ʒi/	privilégie /pʁi.vi.le.ʒi/	privilégiions /pʁi.vi.le.ʒi.jɔ̃/	privilégiiez /pʁi.vi.le.ʒi.je/	privilégient /pʁi.vi.le.ʒi/
	imperfect2	privilégiasse /pʁi.vi.le.ʒjas/	privilégiasses /pʁi.vi.le.ʒjas/	privilégiât /pʁi.vi.le.ʒja/	privilégiassions /pʁi.vi.le.ʒja.sjɔ̃/	privilégiassiez /pʁi.vi.le.ʒja.sje/	privilégiassent /pʁi.vi.le.ʒjas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	privilégie /pʁi.vi.le.ʒi/	—	privilégions /pʁi.vi.le.ʒjɔ̃/	privilégiez /pʁi.vi.le.ʒje/	—
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).

Further reading

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