rédiger

See also: rediger and redigér

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin redigō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁe.di.ʒe/

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Verb

rédiger

1. (transitive) to compose, write in a well defined manner according to context and the style required, often definite
2. to sum up, put on paper (a law, verdict, ...)

Conjugation

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

infinitive	simple	rédiger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rédigeant /ʁe.di.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rédigé /ʁe.di.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rédige /ʁe.diʒ/	rédiges /ʁe.diʒ/	rédige /ʁe.diʒ/	rédigeons /ʁe.di.ʒɔ̃/	rédigez /ʁe.di.ʒe/	rédigent /ʁe.diʒ/
	imperfect	rédigeais /ʁe.di.ʒɛ/	rédigeais /ʁe.di.ʒɛ/	rédigeait /ʁe.di.ʒɛ/	rédigions /ʁe.di.ʒjɔ̃/	rédigiez /ʁe.di.ʒje/	rédigeaient /ʁe.di.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	rédigeai /ʁe.di.ʒe/	rédigeas /ʁe.di.ʒa/	rédigea /ʁe.di.ʒa/	rédigeâmes /ʁe.di.ʒam/	rédigeâtes /ʁe.di.ʒat/	rédigèrent /ʁe.di.ʒɛʁ/
	future	rédigerai /ʁe.diʒ.ʁe/	rédigeras /ʁe.diʒ.ʁa/	rédigera /ʁe.diʒ.ʁa/	rédigerons /ʁe.diʒ.ʁɔ̃/	rédigerez /ʁe.diʒ.ʁe/	rédigeront /ʁe.diʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rédigerais /ʁe.diʒ.ʁɛ/	rédigerais /ʁe.diʒ.ʁɛ/	rédigerait /ʁe.diʒ.ʁɛ/	rédigerions /ʁe.di.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	rédigeriez /ʁe.di.ʒə.ʁje/	rédigeraient /ʁe.diʒ.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	rédige /ʁe.diʒ/	rédiges /ʁe.diʒ/	rédige /ʁe.diʒ/	rédigions /ʁe.di.ʒjɔ̃/	rédigiez /ʁe.di.ʒje/	rédigent /ʁe.diʒ/
	imperfect2	rédigeasse /ʁe.di.ʒas/	rédigeasses /ʁe.di.ʒas/	rédigeât /ʁe.di.ʒa/	rédigeassions /ʁe.di.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	rédigeassiez /ʁe.di.ʒa.sje/	rédigeassent /ʁe.di.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rédige /ʁe.diʒ/	—	rédigeons /ʁe.di.ʒɔ̃/	rédigez /ʁe.di.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).

Descendants

• → German: redigieren

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• digérer