piéger
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pje.ʒe/
Verb
piéger
- to trap (catch in a trap)
- Deux hommes armés m'attendaient devant ma maison : ils ont voulu me piéger.
- Two armed men had been waiting for me outside my house: they wanted to trap me.
- Deux hommes armés m'attendaient devant ma maison : ils ont voulu me piéger.
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 piéger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | piégeant /pje.ʒɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | piégé /pje.ʒe/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | piéger | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | piégeant /pje.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 | piège /pjɛʒ/ |
pièges /pjɛʒ/ |
piège /pjɛʒ/ |
piégeons /pje.ʒɔ̃/ |
piégez /pje.ʒe/ |
piègent /pjɛʒ/ |
| imperfect | piégeais /pje.ʒɛ/ |
piégeais /pje.ʒɛ/ |
piégeait /pje.ʒɛ/ |
piégions /pje.ʒjɔ̃/ |
piégiez /pje.ʒje/ |
piégeaient /pje.ʒɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | piégeai /pje.ʒe/ |
piégeas /pje.ʒa/ |
piégea /pje.ʒa/ |
piégeâmes /pje.ʒam/ |
piégeâtes /pje.ʒat/ |
piégèrent /pje.ʒɛʁ/ | |
| future | piégerai or piègerai /pjɛʒ.ʁe/ |
piégeras or piègeras /pjɛʒ.ʁa/ |
piégera or piègera /pjɛʒ.ʁa/ |
piégerons or piègerons /pjɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
piégerez or piègerez /pjɛʒ.ʁe/ |
piégeront or piègeront /pjɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | piégerais or piègerais /pjɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
piégerais or piègerais /pjɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
piégerait or piègerait /pjɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
piégerions or piègerions /pjɛ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
piégeriez or piègeriez /pjɛ.ʒə.ʁje/ |
piégeraient or piègeraient /pjɛʒ.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 | piège /pjɛʒ/ |
pièges /pjɛʒ/ |
piège /pjɛʒ/ |
piégions /pje.ʒjɔ̃/ |
piégiez /pje.ʒje/ |
piègent /pjɛʒ/ |
| imperfect2 | piégeasse /pje.ʒas/ |
piégeasses /pje.ʒas/ |
piégeât /pje.ʒa/ |
piégeassions /pje.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
piégeassiez /pje.ʒa.sje/ |
piégeassent /pje.ʒas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | piège /pjɛʒ/ |
— | piégeons /pje.ʒɔ̃/ |
piégez /pje.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “piéger” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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