mitiger
French
Etymology
From Latin mītigō.
Pronunciation
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Verb
mitiger
- (dated) to deacidify (make less acidic)
- (dated) to mitigate, soften
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written mitige- 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 mitiger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | mitiger | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | mitigeant /mi.ti.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | mitigé /mi.ti.ʒe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | mitige /mi.tiʒ/ | mitiges /mi.tiʒ/ | mitige /mi.tiʒ/ | mitigeons /mi.ti.ʒɔ̃/ | mitigez /mi.ti.ʒe/ | mitigent /mi.tiʒ/ |
imperfect | mitigeais /mi.ti.ʒɛ/ | mitigeais /mi.ti.ʒɛ/ | mitigeait /mi.ti.ʒɛ/ | mitigions /mi.ti.ʒjɔ̃/ | mitigiez /mi.ti.ʒje/ | mitigeaient /mi.ti.ʒɛ/ | |
past historic2 | mitigeai /mi.ti.ʒe/ | mitigeas /mi.ti.ʒa/ | mitigea /mi.ti.ʒa/ | mitigeâmes /mi.ti.ʒam/ | mitigeâtes /mi.ti.ʒat/ | mitigèrent /mi.ti.ʒɛʁ/ | |
future | mitigerai /mi.tiʒ.ʁe/ | mitigeras /mi.tiʒ.ʁa/ | mitigera /mi.tiʒ.ʁa/ | mitigerons /mi.tiʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | mitigerez /mi.tiʒ.ʁe/ | mitigeront /mi.tiʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | mitigerais /mi.tiʒ.ʁɛ/ | mitigerais /mi.tiʒ.ʁɛ/ | mitigerait /mi.tiʒ.ʁɛ/ | mitigerions /mi.ti.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ | mitigeriez /mi.ti.ʒə.ʁje/ | mitigeraient /mi.tiʒ.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 | mitige /mi.tiʒ/ | mitiges /mi.tiʒ/ | mitige /mi.tiʒ/ | mitigions /mi.ti.ʒjɔ̃/ | mitigiez /mi.ti.ʒje/ | mitigent /mi.tiʒ/ |
imperfect2 | mitigeasse /mi.ti.ʒas/ | mitigeasses /mi.ti.ʒas/ | mitigeât /mi.ti.ʒa/ | mitigeassions /mi.ti.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ | mitigeassiez /mi.ti.ʒa.sje/ | mitigeassent /mi.ti.ʒas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | mitige /mi.tiʒ/ | — | mitigeons /mi.ti.ʒɔ̃/ | mitigez /mi.ti.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). |
Related terms
- mitigation
Further reading
- “mitiger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
mītiger
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of mītigō