submerger

English

Etymology

From submerge +‎ -er.

Noun

submerger (plural submergers)

1. (rare) Someone or something that submerges.

Anagrams

• Umbergers

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin submergere, present active infinitive of submergō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syb.mɛʁ.ʒe/

Verb

submerger

1. to submerge

   Ce navire a été submergé.

2. to be engulfed in or with something.

   Je suis submergé de travail.

Conjugation

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

infinitive	simple	submerger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	submergeant /syb.mɛʁ.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		submergé /syb.mɛʁ.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	submerge /syb.mɛʁʒ/	submerges /syb.mɛʁʒ/	submerge /syb.mɛʁʒ/	submergeons /syb.mɛʁ.ʒɔ̃/	submergez /syb.mɛʁ.ʒe/	submergent /syb.mɛʁʒ/
	imperfect	submergeais /syb.mɛʁ.ʒɛ/	submergeais /syb.mɛʁ.ʒɛ/	submergeait /syb.mɛʁ.ʒɛ/	submergions /syb.mɛʁ.ʒjɔ̃/	submergiez /syb.mɛʁ.ʒje/	submergeaient /syb.mɛʁ.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	submergeai /syb.mɛʁ.ʒe/	submergeas /syb.mɛʁ.ʒa/	submergea /syb.mɛʁ.ʒa/	submergeâmes /syb.mɛʁ.ʒam/	submergeâtes /syb.mɛʁ.ʒat/	submergèrent /syb.mɛʁ.ʒɛʁ/
	future	submergerai /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁe/	submergeras /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁa/	submergera /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁa/	submergerons /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/	submergerez /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁe/	submergeront /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	submergerais /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	submergerais /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	submergerait /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	submergerions /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	submergeriez /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁje/	submergeraient /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.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	submerge /syb.mɛʁʒ/	submerges /syb.mɛʁʒ/	submerge /syb.mɛʁʒ/	submergions /syb.mɛʁ.ʒjɔ̃/	submergiez /syb.mɛʁ.ʒje/	submergent /syb.mɛʁʒ/
	imperfect2	submergeasse /syb.mɛʁ.ʒas/	submergeasses /syb.mɛʁ.ʒas/	submergeât /syb.mɛʁ.ʒa/	submergeassions /syb.mɛʁ.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	submergeassiez /syb.mɛʁ.ʒa.sje/	submergeassent /syb.mɛʁ.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	submerge /syb.mɛʁʒ/	—	submergeons /syb.mɛʁ.ʒɔ̃/	submergez /syb.mɛʁ.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).

Synonyms

submerger has most of the time a passive voice, active and transitive synonym is immerger.

Related terms

• submersible
• submersion
• immerger
• émerger

Further reading

• “submerger” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).