abréger

French

Etymology

From Late Latin abbreviō, abbreviāre. Doublet of abrévier, a (now obsolete) borrowing. See also abréviation.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /a.bʁe.ʒe/
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Verb

abréger

  1. to shorten in duration.
  2. to shorten (in textual length) or summarize, to abridge.
  3. to abbreviate.
    • 1991, L'Encyclopédie Grolier, volume vol. 1, A-Asc, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, s.v. "abréviation":
      Les principales façon d'abréger les mots étaient connus dans le monde latin […]
      (please add an English translation of this quote)

Conjugation

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 abréger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle abrégeant
/a.bʁe.ʒɑ̃/
past participle abrégé
/a.bʁe.ʒe/
infinitive
simple abréger
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple abrégeant
/a.bʁe.ʒɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present abrège
/a.bʁɛʒ/		 abrèges
/a.bʁɛʒ/		 abrège
/a.bʁɛʒ/		 abrégeons
/a.bʁe.ʒɔ̃/		 abrégez
/a.bʁe.ʒe/		 abrègent
/a.bʁɛʒ/
imperfect abrégeais
/a.bʁe.ʒɛ/		 abrégeais
/a.bʁe.ʒɛ/		 abrégeait
/a.bʁe.ʒɛ/		 abrégions
/a.bʁe.ʒjɔ̃/		 abrégiez
/a.bʁe.ʒje/		 abrégeaient
/a.bʁe.ʒɛ/
past historic2 abrégeai
/a.bʁe.ʒe/		 abrégeas
/a.bʁe.ʒa/		 abrégea
/a.bʁe.ʒa/		 abrégeâmes
/a.bʁe.ʒam/		 abrégeâtes
/a.bʁe.ʒat/		 abrégèrent
/a.bʁe.ʒɛʁ/
future abrégerai or abrègerai
/a.bʁɛʒ.ʁe/		 abrégeras or abrègeras
/a.bʁɛʒ.ʁa/		 abrégera or abrègera
/a.bʁɛʒ.ʁa/		 abrégerons or abrègerons
/a.bʁɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/		 abrégerez or abrègerez
/a.bʁɛʒ.ʁe/		 abrégeront or abrègeront
/a.bʁɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/
conditional abrégerais or abrègerais
/a.bʁɛʒ.ʁɛ/		 abrégerais or abrègerais
/a.bʁɛʒ.ʁɛ/		 abrégerait or abrègerait
/a.bʁɛʒ.ʁɛ/		 abrégerions or abrègerions
/a.bʁɛ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/		 abrégeriez or abrègeriez
/a.bʁɛ.ʒə.ʁje/		 abrégeraient or abrègeraient
/a.bʁɛʒ.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 abrège
/a.bʁɛʒ/		 abrèges
/a.bʁɛʒ/		 abrège
/a.bʁɛʒ/		 abrégions
/a.bʁe.ʒjɔ̃/		 abrégiez
/a.bʁe.ʒje/		 abrègent
/a.bʁɛʒ/
imperfect2 abrégeasse
/a.bʁe.ʒas/		 abrégeasses
/a.bʁe.ʒas/		 abrégeât
/a.bʁe.ʒa/		 abrégeassions
/a.bʁe.ʒa.sjɔ̃/		 abrégeassiez
/a.bʁe.ʒa.sje/		 abrégeassent
/a.bʁe.ʒas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — abrège
/a.bʁɛʒ/		 — abrégeons
/a.bʁe.ʒɔ̃/		 abrégez
/a.bʁe.ʒe/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 Only usable with 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).

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