grillager
French
Etymology
grillage + -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡʁi.ja.ʒe/
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Verb
grillager
- (transitive) to enclose with wire netting
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written grillage- 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 grillager (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | grillager | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | grillageant /ɡʁi.ja.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | grillagé /ɡʁi.ja.ʒe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | grillage /ɡʁi.jaʒ/ | grillages /ɡʁi.jaʒ/ | grillage /ɡʁi.jaʒ/ | grillageons /ɡʁi.ja.ʒɔ̃/ | grillagez /ɡʁi.ja.ʒe/ | grillagent /ɡʁi.jaʒ/ |
imperfect | grillageais /ɡʁi.ja.ʒɛ/ | grillageais /ɡʁi.ja.ʒɛ/ | grillageait /ɡʁi.ja.ʒɛ/ | grillagions /ɡʁi.ja.ʒjɔ̃/ | grillagiez /ɡʁi.ja.ʒje/ | grillageaient /ɡʁi.ja.ʒɛ/ | |
past historic2 | grillageai /ɡʁi.ja.ʒe/ | grillageas /ɡʁi.ja.ʒa/ | grillagea /ɡʁi.ja.ʒa/ | grillageâmes /ɡʁi.ja.ʒam/ | grillageâtes /ɡʁi.ja.ʒat/ | grillagèrent /ɡʁi.ja.ʒɛʁ/ | |
future | grillagerai /ɡʁi.jaʒ.ʁe/ | grillageras /ɡʁi.jaʒ.ʁa/ | grillagera /ɡʁi.jaʒ.ʁa/ | grillagerons /ɡʁi.jaʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | grillagerez /ɡʁi.jaʒ.ʁe/ | grillageront /ɡʁi.jaʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | grillagerais /ɡʁi.jaʒ.ʁɛ/ | grillagerais /ɡʁi.jaʒ.ʁɛ/ | grillagerait /ɡʁi.jaʒ.ʁɛ/ | grillagerions /ɡʁi.ja.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ | grillageriez /ɡʁi.ja.ʒə.ʁje/ | grillageraient /ɡʁi.jaʒ.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 | grillage /ɡʁi.jaʒ/ | grillages /ɡʁi.jaʒ/ | grillage /ɡʁi.jaʒ/ | grillagions /ɡʁi.ja.ʒjɔ̃/ | grillagiez /ɡʁi.ja.ʒje/ | grillagent /ɡʁi.jaʒ/ |
imperfect2 | grillageasse /ɡʁi.ja.ʒas/ | grillageasses /ɡʁi.ja.ʒas/ | grillageât /ɡʁi.ja.ʒa/ | grillageassions /ɡʁi.ja.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ | grillageassiez /ɡʁi.ja.ʒa.sje/ | grillageassent /ɡʁi.ja.ʒas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | grillage /ɡʁi.jaʒ/ | — | grillageons /ɡʁi.ja.ʒɔ̃/ | grillagez /ɡʁi.ja.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
- “grillager”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.