assiéger
See also: assieger
French
Etymology
From a- + siège + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.sje.ʒe/
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Verb
assiéger
- (transitive) to besiege; to lay siege to
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 assiéger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | assiéger | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | assiégeant /a.sje.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | assiégé /a.sje.ʒe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | assiège /a.sjɛʒ/ | assièges /a.sjɛʒ/ | assiège /a.sjɛʒ/ | assiégeons /a.sje.ʒɔ̃/ | assiégez /a.sje.ʒe/ | assiègent /a.sjɛʒ/ |
| imperfect | assiégeais /a.sje.ʒɛ/ | assiégeais /a.sje.ʒɛ/ | assiégeait /a.sje.ʒɛ/ | assiégions /a.sje.ʒjɔ̃/ | assiégiez /a.sje.ʒje/ | assiégeaient /a.sje.ʒɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | assiégeai /a.sje.ʒe/ | assiégeas /a.sje.ʒa/ | assiégea /a.sje.ʒa/ | assiégeâmes /a.sje.ʒam/ | assiégeâtes /a.sje.ʒat/ | assiégèrent /a.sje.ʒɛʁ/ | |
| future | assiégerai or assiègerai /a.sjɛʒ.ʁe/ | assiégeras or assiègeras /a.sjɛʒ.ʁa/ | assiégera or assiègera /a.sjɛʒ.ʁa/ | assiégerons or assiègerons /a.sjɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | assiégerez or assiègerez /a.sjɛʒ.ʁe/ | assiégeront or assiègeront /a.sjɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | assiégerais or assiègerais /a.sjɛʒ.ʁɛ/ | assiégerais or assiègerais /a.sjɛʒ.ʁɛ/ | assiégerait or assiègerait /a.sjɛʒ.ʁɛ/ | assiégerions or assiègerions /a.sjɛ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.sje.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ | assiégeriez or assiègeriez /a.sjɛ.ʒə.ʁje/ or /a.sje.ʒə.ʁje/ | assiégeraient or assiègeraient /a.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 | assiège /a.sjɛʒ/ | assièges /a.sjɛʒ/ | assiège /a.sjɛʒ/ | assiégions /a.sje.ʒjɔ̃/ | assiégiez /a.sje.ʒje/ | assiègent /a.sjɛʒ/ |
| imperfect2 | assiégeasse /a.sje.ʒas/ | assiégeasses /a.sje.ʒas/ | assiégeât /a.sje.ʒa/ | assiégeassions /a.sje.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ | assiégeassiez /a.sje.ʒa.sje/ | assiégeassent /a.sje.ʒas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | assiège /a.sjɛʒ/ | — | assiégeons /a.sje.ʒɔ̃/ | assiégez /a.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- assiégeable
Further reading
- “assiéger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- réagisse