transiger
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin transigere, transigō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒe/
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Verb
transiger
- to compromise
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written transige- 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 transiger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | transiger | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | transigeant /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | transigé /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | transige /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ/ | transiges /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ/ | transige /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ/ | transigeons /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒɔ̃/ | transigez /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒe/ | transigent /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ/ |
| imperfect | transigeais /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒɛ/ | transigeais /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒɛ/ | transigeait /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒɛ/ | transigions /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒjɔ̃/ | transigiez /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒje/ | transigeaient /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | transigeai /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒe/ | transigeas /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒa/ | transigea /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒa/ | transigeâmes /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒam/ | transigeâtes /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒat/ | transigèrent /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒɛʁ/ | |
| future | transigerai /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ.ʁe/ | transigeras /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ.ʁa/ | transigera /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ.ʁa/ | transigerons /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | transigerez /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ.ʁe/ | transigeront /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | transigerais /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ.ʁɛ/ | transigerais /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ.ʁɛ/ | transigerait /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ.ʁɛ/ | transigerions /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ | transigeriez /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒə.ʁje/ | transigeraient /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ.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 | transige /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ/ | transiges /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ/ | transige /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ/ | transigions /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒjɔ̃/ | transigiez /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒje/ | transigent /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ/ |
| imperfect2 | transigeasse /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒas/ | transigeasses /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒas/ | transigeât /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒa/ | transigeassions /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ | transigeassiez /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒa.sje/ | transigeassent /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | transige /tʁɑ̃.ziʒ/ | — | transigeons /tʁɑ̃.zi.ʒɔ̃/ | transigez /tʁɑ̃.zi.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
- intransigeant
Further reading
- “transiger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.