longer
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlɒŋ.ɡə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlɔŋ.ɡɚ/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈlɑŋ.ɡɚ/
- (Ireland (rural)) IPA(key): [ˈlɑŋ.əɾ]
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒŋɡə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
From Middle English longer, longere, normalisation of Middle English lenger, lengere (“longer”), from Old English lengra (“longer”), from Proto-Germanic *langizô (“longer”), comparative of Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), equivalent to long + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian laanger (“longer”), West Frisian langer (“longer”), Dutch langer (“longer”), German länger (“longer”), Danish længere (“longer”), Swedish längre (“longer”), Icelandic lengri (“longer”).
Adjective
longer
- comparative form of long: more long
Adverb
longer
- comparative form of long: more long
Derived terms
- no longer
Etymology 2
long (“yearn”) + -er
Noun
longer (plural longers)
- One who longs or yearns for something.
French
Etymology
From long + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɔ̃.ʒe/
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Verb
longer
- to walk along, run along
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written longe- 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.
infinitive | simple | longer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | longeant /lɔ̃.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | longé /lɔ̃.ʒe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | longe /lɔ̃ʒ/ | longes /lɔ̃ʒ/ | longe /lɔ̃ʒ/ | longeons /lɔ̃.ʒɔ̃/ | longez /lɔ̃.ʒe/ | longent /lɔ̃ʒ/ |
imperfect | longeais /lɔ̃.ʒɛ/ | longeais /lɔ̃.ʒɛ/ | longeait /lɔ̃.ʒɛ/ | longions /lɔ̃.ʒjɔ̃/ | longiez /lɔ̃.ʒje/ | longeaient /lɔ̃.ʒɛ/ | |
past historic2 | longeai /lɔ̃.ʒe/ | longeas /lɔ̃.ʒa/ | longea /lɔ̃.ʒa/ | longeâmes /lɔ̃.ʒam/ | longeâtes /lɔ̃.ʒat/ | longèrent /lɔ̃.ʒɛʁ/ | |
future | longerai /lɔ̃ʒ.ʁe/ | longeras /lɔ̃ʒ.ʁa/ | longera /lɔ̃ʒ.ʁa/ | longerons /lɔ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | longerez /lɔ̃ʒ.ʁe/ | longeront /lɔ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | longerais /lɔ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ | longerais /lɔ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ | longerait /lɔ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ | longerions /lɔ̃.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ | longeriez /lɔ̃.ʒə.ʁje/ | longeraient /lɔ̃ʒ.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 | longe /lɔ̃ʒ/ | longes /lɔ̃ʒ/ | longe /lɔ̃ʒ/ | longions /lɔ̃.ʒjɔ̃/ | longiez /lɔ̃.ʒje/ | longent /lɔ̃ʒ/ |
imperfect2 | longeasse /lɔ̃.ʒas/ | longeasses /lɔ̃.ʒas/ | longeât /lɔ̃.ʒa/ | longeassions /lɔ̃.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ | longeassiez /lɔ̃.ʒa.sje/ | longeassent /lɔ̃.ʒas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | longe /lɔ̃ʒ/ | — | longeons /lɔ̃.ʒɔ̃/ | longez /lɔ̃.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). |
See also
- border
- côtoyer
Further reading
- “longer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- grêlon