partager

French

Etymology

From partage +‎ -er. Displaced partir in the sense of "to share, to divide".

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /paʁ.ta.ʒe/
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Verb

partager

  1. to share
    Nous allons partager les bénéfices - We are going to share the benefits
  2. to divide up
    Ils partagèrent la succession en deux - They divided the estate in two
  3. to divide
    Les questions de la guerre et de la paix partageront le pays - Issues of war and peace will divide the country.
  4. to share out
    Je partageai les provisions avec tout le monde - I shared the provisions with everyone.

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written partage- 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 partager (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle partageant
/paʁ.ta.ʒɑ̃/
past participle partagé
/paʁ.ta.ʒe/
infinitive
simple partager
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple partageant
/paʁ.ta.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 partage
/paʁ.taʒ/		 partages
/paʁ.taʒ/		 partage
/paʁ.taʒ/		 partageons
/paʁ.ta.ʒɔ̃/		 partagez
/paʁ.ta.ʒe/		 partagent
/paʁ.taʒ/
imperfect partageais
/paʁ.ta.ʒɛ/		 partageais
/paʁ.ta.ʒɛ/		 partageait
/paʁ.ta.ʒɛ/		 partagions
/paʁ.ta.ʒjɔ̃/		 partagiez
/paʁ.ta.ʒje/		 partageaient
/paʁ.ta.ʒɛ/
past historic2 partageai
/paʁ.ta.ʒe/		 partageas
/paʁ.ta.ʒa/		 partagea
/paʁ.ta.ʒa/		 partageâmes
/paʁ.ta.ʒam/		 partageâtes
/paʁ.ta.ʒat/		 partagèrent
/paʁ.ta.ʒɛʁ/
future partagerai
/paʁ.taʒ.ʁe/		 partageras
/paʁ.taʒ.ʁa/		 partagera
/paʁ.taʒ.ʁa/		 partagerons
/paʁ.taʒ.ʁɔ̃/		 partagerez
/paʁ.taʒ.ʁe/		 partageront
/paʁ.taʒ.ʁɔ̃/
conditional partagerais
/paʁ.taʒ.ʁɛ/		 partagerais
/paʁ.taʒ.ʁɛ/		 partagerait
/paʁ.taʒ.ʁɛ/		 partagerions
/paʁ.ta.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/		 partageriez
/paʁ.ta.ʒə.ʁje/		 partageraient
/paʁ.taʒ.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 partage
/paʁ.taʒ/		 partages
/paʁ.taʒ/		 partage
/paʁ.taʒ/		 partagions
/paʁ.ta.ʒjɔ̃/		 partagiez
/paʁ.ta.ʒje/		 partagent
/paʁ.taʒ/
imperfect2 partageasse
/paʁ.ta.ʒas/		 partageasses
/paʁ.ta.ʒas/		 partageât
/paʁ.ta.ʒa/		 partageassions
/paʁ.ta.ʒa.sjɔ̃/		 partageassiez
/paʁ.ta.ʒa.sje/		 partageassent
/paʁ.ta.ʒas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — partage
/paʁ.taʒ/		 — partageons
/paʁ.ta.ʒɔ̃/		 partagez
/paʁ.ta.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).

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