piéger
French
Etymology
From Middle French piegier, from Old French piegier, equivalent to piège + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pje.ʒe/
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Verb
piéger
- to trap (catch in a trap), to trick, to set up
- 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.
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)
| infinitive | simple | piéger | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | piégeant /pje.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | piégé /pje.ʒe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | 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/ or /pje.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ | piégeriez or piègeriez /pjɛ.ʒə.ʁje/ or /pje.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 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- voiture piégée
Further reading
- “piéger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.