siéger
See also: Sieger
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sje.ʒe/
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Verb
siéger
- (transitive, administration) to sit (hold a seat)
- (law, government) to sit
- to be located; lie
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 siéger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | siéger | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | siégeant /sje.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | siégé /sje.ʒe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | siège /sjɛʒ/ | sièges /sjɛʒ/ | siège /sjɛʒ/ | siégeons /sje.ʒɔ̃/ | siégez /sje.ʒe/ | siègent /sjɛʒ/ |
imperfect | siégeais /sje.ʒɛ/ | siégeais /sje.ʒɛ/ | siégeait /sje.ʒɛ/ | siégions /sje.ʒjɔ̃/ | siégiez /sje.ʒje/ | siégeaient /sje.ʒɛ/ | |
past historic2 | siégeai /sje.ʒe/ | siégeas /sje.ʒa/ | siégea /sje.ʒa/ | siégeâmes /sje.ʒam/ | siégeâtes /sje.ʒat/ | siégèrent /sje.ʒɛʁ/ | |
future | siégerai or siègerai /sjɛʒ.ʁe/ | siégeras or siègeras /sjɛʒ.ʁa/ | siégera or siègera /sjɛʒ.ʁa/ | siégerons or siègerons /sjɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | siégerez or siègerez /sjɛʒ.ʁe/ | siégeront or siègeront /sjɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | siégerais or siègerais /sjɛʒ.ʁɛ/ | siégerais or siègerais /sjɛʒ.ʁɛ/ | siégerait or siègerait /sjɛʒ.ʁɛ/ | siégerions or siègerions /sjɛ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /sje.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ | siégeriez or siègeriez /sjɛ.ʒə.ʁje/ or /sje.ʒə.ʁje/ | siégeraient or siègeraient /sjɛʒ.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 | siège /sjɛʒ/ | sièges /sjɛʒ/ | siège /sjɛʒ/ | siégions /sje.ʒjɔ̃/ | siégiez /sje.ʒje/ | siègent /sjɛʒ/ |
imperfect2 | siégeasse /sje.ʒas/ | siégeasses /sje.ʒas/ | siégeât /sje.ʒa/ | siégeassions /sje.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ | siégeassiez /sje.ʒa.sje/ | siégeassent /sje.ʒas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | siège /sjɛʒ/ | — | siégeons /sje.ʒɔ̃/ | siégez /sje.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
- “siéger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.