partager
French
Etymology
From partage + -er. Displaced partir in the sense of "to share, to divide".
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paʁ.ta.ʒe/
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Verb
partager
- to share
- Nous allons partager les bénéfices ― We are going to share the benefits
- Le Canada entretient une relation de premier plan avec les États-Unis, pays avec lequel il partage la plus longue frontière non défendue du monde, frontière où les échanges économiques transfrontaliers sont parmi les plus importants du globe.
- Canada maintains a high-profile relationship with the United States, a country with which it shares the longest undefended border in the world, a border where the cross-border economic exchanges are among the most important on the globe.
- to divide up
- Ils partagèrent la succession en deux ― They divided the estate in two
- to divide
- Les questions de la guerre et de la paix partageront le pays ― Issues of war and peace will divide the country.
- to share out
- Je partageai les provisions avec tout le monde ― I shared the provisions with everyone.
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written partage- 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 partager (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | partager | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | partageant /paʁ.ta.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | partagé /paʁ.ta.ʒe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | partage /paʁ.taʒ/ | partages /paʁ.taʒ/ | partage /paʁ.taʒ/ | partageons /paʁ.ta.ʒɔ̃/ | partagez /paʁ.ta.ʒe/ | partagent /paʁ.taʒ/ |
| imperfect | partageais /paʁ.ta.ʒɛ/ | partageais /paʁ.ta.ʒɛ/ | partageait /paʁ.ta.ʒɛ/ | partagions /paʁ.ta.ʒjɔ̃/ | partagiez /paʁ.ta.ʒje/ | partageaient /paʁ.ta.ʒɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | partageai /paʁ.ta.ʒe/ | partageas /paʁ.ta.ʒa/ | partagea /paʁ.ta.ʒa/ | partageâmes /paʁ.ta.ʒam/ | partageâtes /paʁ.ta.ʒat/ | partagèrent /paʁ.ta.ʒɛʁ/ | |
| future | partagerai /paʁ.taʒ.ʁe/ | partageras /paʁ.taʒ.ʁa/ | partagera /paʁ.taʒ.ʁa/ | partagerons /paʁ.taʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | partagerez /paʁ.taʒ.ʁe/ | partageront /paʁ.taʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | partagerais /paʁ.taʒ.ʁɛ/ | partagerais /paʁ.taʒ.ʁɛ/ | partagerait /paʁ.taʒ.ʁɛ/ | partagerions /paʁ.ta.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ | partageriez /paʁ.ta.ʒə.ʁje/ | partageraient /paʁ.taʒ.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 | partage /paʁ.taʒ/ | partages /paʁ.taʒ/ | partage /paʁ.taʒ/ | partagions /paʁ.ta.ʒjɔ̃/ | partagiez /paʁ.ta.ʒje/ | partagent /paʁ.taʒ/ |
| imperfect2 | partageasse /paʁ.ta.ʒas/ | partageasses /paʁ.ta.ʒas/ | partageât /paʁ.ta.ʒa/ | partageassions /paʁ.ta.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ | partageassiez /paʁ.ta.ʒa.sje/ | partageassent /paʁ.ta.ʒas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | partage /paʁ.taʒ/ | — | partageons /paʁ.ta.ʒɔ̃/ | partagez /paʁ.ta.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
- “partager”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.