piger

Danish

Noun

piger c

  1. plural indefinite of pige

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pi.ʒe/

Verb

piger

  1. (informal) to understand : to get, to catch on, to twig, to cotton on.
  2. (Canada) to choose at random : to draw.

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written pige- 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 piger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle pigeant
/pi.ʒɑ̃/
past participle pigé
/pi.ʒe/
infinitive
simple piger
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple pigeant
/pi.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 pige
/piʒ/		 piges
/piʒ/		 pige
/piʒ/		 pigeons
/pi.ʒɔ̃/		 pigez
/pi.ʒe/		 pigent
/piʒ/
imperfect pigeais
/pi.ʒɛ/		 pigeais
/pi.ʒɛ/		 pigeait
/pi.ʒɛ/		 pigions
/pi.ʒjɔ̃/		 pigiez
/pi.ʒje/		 pigeaient
/pi.ʒɛ/
past historic2 pigeai
/pi.ʒe/		 pigeas
/pi.ʒa/		 pigea
/pi.ʒa/		 pigeâmes
/pi.ʒam/		 pigeâtes
/pi.ʒat/		 pigèrent
/pi.ʒɛʁ/
future pigerai
/piʒ.ʁe/		 pigeras
/piʒ.ʁa/		 pigera
/piʒ.ʁa/		 pigerons
/piʒ.ʁɔ̃/		 pigerez
/piʒ.ʁe/		 pigeront
/piʒ.ʁɔ̃/
conditional pigerais
/piʒ.ʁɛ/		 pigerais
/piʒ.ʁɛ/		 pigerait
/piʒ.ʁɛ/		 pigerions
/pi.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/		 pigeriez
/pi.ʒə.ʁje/		 pigeraient
/piʒ.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 pige
/piʒ/		 piges
/piʒ/		 pige
/piʒ/		 pigions
/pi.ʒjɔ̃/		 pigiez
/pi.ʒje/		 pigent
/piʒ/
imperfect2 pigeasse
/pi.ʒas/		 pigeasses
/pi.ʒas/		 pigeât
/pi.ʒa/		 pigeassions
/pi.ʒa.sjɔ̃/		 pigeassiez
/pi.ʒa.sje/		 pigeassent
/pi.ʒas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — pige
/piʒ/		 — pigeons
/pi.ʒɔ̃/		 pigez
/pi.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).

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From pigeō (“to feel annoyance at, feel reluctance at”), from Proto-Indo-European *peyǵ- (“ill-meaning, evil-minded, treacherous, hostile, bad”). Related to Old English ġefic (“fraud, deceit, deception”), Old English fācen (“deceit, fraud, treachery, sin, evil, crime, blemish, fault”), Middle High German veichen (“dissembling, deceit, fraud”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpi.ɡer/, [ˈpɪ.ɡɛr]

Adjective

piger (feminine pigra, neuter pigrum); first/second declension

  1. backward, slow, dull, lazy, indolent, sluggish, inactive

Inflection

First/second declension, nominative masculine singular in -er.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative piger pigra pigrum pigrī pigrae pigra
Genitive pigrī pigrae pigrī pigrōrum pigrārum pigrōrum
Dative pigrō pigrae pigrō pigrīs pigrīs pigrīs
Accusative pigrum pigram pigrum pigrōs pigrās pigra
Ablative pigrō pigrā pigrō pigrīs pigrīs pigrīs
Vocative piger pigra pigrum pigrī pigrae pigra

Derived terms

Descendants

References
  • piger in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • piger in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • piger in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • piger in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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