alléger
See also: alleger
French
Etymology
From Late Latin alleviāre, present active infinitive of alleviō.
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 alléger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | allégeant /a.le.ʒɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | allégé /a.le.ʒe/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | alléger | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | allégeant /a.le.ʒɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | allège /a.lɛʒ/ |
allèges /a.lɛʒ/ |
allège /a.lɛʒ/ |
allégeons /a.le.ʒɔ̃/ |
allégez /a.le.ʒe/ |
allègent /a.lɛʒ/ |
| imperfect | allégeais /a.le.ʒɛ/ |
allégeais /a.le.ʒɛ/ |
allégeait /a.le.ʒɛ/ |
allégions /a.le.ʒjɔ̃/ |
allégiez /a.le.ʒje/ |
allégeaient /a.le.ʒɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | allégeai /a.le.ʒe/ |
allégeas /a.le.ʒa/ |
allégea /a.le.ʒa/ |
allégeâmes /a.le.ʒam/ |
allégeâtes /a.le.ʒat/ |
allégèrent /a.le.ʒɛʁ/ | |
| future | allégerai or allègerai /a.lɛʒ.ʁe/ |
allégeras or allègeras /a.lɛʒ.ʁa/ |
allégera or allègera /a.lɛʒ.ʁa/ |
allégerons or allègerons /a.lɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
allégerez or allègerez /a.lɛʒ.ʁe/ |
allégeront or allègeront /a.lɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | allégerais or allègerais /a.lɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
allégerais or allègerais /a.lɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
allégerait or allègerait /a.lɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
allégerions or allègerions /a.lɛ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
allégeriez or allègeriez /a.lɛ.ʒə.ʁje/ |
allégeraient or allègeraient /a.lɛʒ.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 | allège /a.lɛʒ/ |
allèges /a.lɛʒ/ |
allège /a.lɛʒ/ |
allégions /a.le.ʒjɔ̃/ |
allégiez /a.le.ʒje/ |
allègent /a.lɛʒ/ |
| imperfect2 | allégeasse /a.le.ʒas/ |
allégeasses /a.le.ʒas/ |
allégeât /a.le.ʒa/ |
allégeassions /a.le.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
allégeassiez /a.le.ʒa.sje/ |
allégeassent /a.le.ʒas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | allège /a.lɛʒ/ |
— | allégeons /a.le.ʒɔ̃/ |
allégez /a.le.ʒe/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
References
Further reading
- “alléger” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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