reléguer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin relēgō, relēgāre (“send away; banish”), from re- (“back, away”) + lēgō (“send, dispatch”).
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’), with the latter being used before mute ‘e’. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written reléguer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written relèguer-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.
| present participle | reléguant /ʁə.le.ɡɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | relégué /ʁə.le.ɡe/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | reléguer | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | reléguant /ʁə.le.ɡɑ̃/ | ||||||
| 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 | relègue /ʁə.lɛɡ/ |
relègues /ʁə.lɛɡ/ |
relègue /ʁə.lɛɡ/ |
reléguons /ʁə.le.ɡɔ̃/ |
reléguez /ʁə.le.ɡe/ |
relèguent /ʁə.lɛɡ/ |
| imperfect | reléguais /ʁə.le.ɡɛ/ |
reléguais /ʁə.le.ɡɛ/ |
reléguait /ʁə.le.ɡɛ/ |
reléguions /ʁə.le.ɡjɔ̃/ |
reléguiez /ʁə.le.ɡje/ |
reléguaient /ʁə.le.ɡɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | reléguai /ʁə.le.ɡe/ |
reléguas /ʁə.le.ɡa/ |
relégua /ʁə.le.ɡa/ |
reléguâmes /ʁə.le.ɡam/ |
reléguâtes /ʁə.le.ɡat/ |
reléguèrent /ʁə.le.ɡɛʁ/ | |
| future | relèguerai or reléguerai /ʁə.lɛ.ɡʁe/ |
relègueras or relégueras /ʁə.lɛ.ɡʁa/ |
relèguera or reléguera /ʁə.lɛ.ɡʁa/ |
relèguerons or reléguerons /ʁə.lɛ.ɡʁɔ̃/ |
relèguerez or reléguerez /ʁə.lɛ.ɡʁe/ |
relègueront or relégueront /ʁə.lɛ.ɡʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | relèguerais or reléguerais /ʁə.lɛ.ɡʁɛ/ |
relèguerais or reléguerais /ʁə.lɛ.ɡʁɛ/ |
relèguerait or reléguerait /ʁə.lɛ.ɡʁɛ/ |
relèguerions or reléguerions /ʁə.lɛ.ɡə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
relègueriez or relégueriez /ʁə.lɛ.ɡə.ʁje/ |
relègueraient or relégueraient /ʁə.lɛ.ɡʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | relègue /ʁə.lɛɡ/ |
relègues /ʁə.lɛɡ/ |
relègue /ʁə.lɛɡ/ |
reléguions /ʁə.le.ɡjɔ̃/ |
reléguiez /ʁə.le.ɡje/ |
relèguent /ʁə.lɛɡ/ |
| imperfect2 | reléguasse /ʁə.le.ɡas/ |
reléguasses /ʁə.le.ɡas/ |
reléguât /ʁə.le.ɡa/ |
reléguassions /ʁə.le.ɡa.sjɔ̃/ |
reléguassiez /ʁə.le.ɡa.sje/ |
reléguassent /ʁə.le.ɡas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | relègue /ʁə.lɛɡ/ |
— | reléguons /ʁə.le.ɡɔ̃/ |
reléguez /ʁə.le.ɡe/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “reléguer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).