abnéguer

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

abnéguer

1. to abnegate

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 abnéguer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written abnèguer-, 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.

Conjugation of abnéguer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	abnéguer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	abnéguant /ab.ne.ɡɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		abnégué /ab.ne.ɡe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	abnègue /ab.nɛɡ/	abnègues /ab.nɛɡ/	abnègue /ab.nɛɡ/	abnéguons /ab.ne.ɡɔ̃/	abnéguez /ab.ne.ɡe/	abnèguent /ab.nɛɡ/
	imperfect	abnéguais /ab.ne.ɡɛ/	abnéguais /ab.ne.ɡɛ/	abnéguait /ab.ne.ɡɛ/	abnéguions /ab.ne.ɡjɔ̃/	abnéguiez /ab.ne.ɡje/	abnéguaient /ab.ne.ɡɛ/
	past historic2	abnéguai /ab.ne.ɡe/	abnéguas /ab.ne.ɡa/	abnégua /ab.ne.ɡa/	abnéguâmes /ab.ne.ɡam/	abnéguâtes /ab.ne.ɡat/	abnéguèrent /ab.ne.ɡɛʁ/
	future	abnèguerai or abnéguerai /ab.nɛ.ɡʁe/ or /ab.ne.ɡʁe/	abnègueras or abnégueras /ab.nɛ.ɡʁa/ or /ab.ne.ɡʁa/	abnèguera or abnéguera /ab.nɛ.ɡʁa/ or /ab.ne.ɡʁa/	abnèguerons or abnéguerons /ab.nɛ.ɡʁɔ̃/ or /ab.ne.ɡʁɔ̃/	abnèguerez or abnéguerez /ab.nɛ.ɡʁe/ or /ab.ne.ɡʁe/	abnègueront or abnégueront /ab.nɛ.ɡʁɔ̃/ or /ab.ne.ɡʁɔ̃/
	conditional	abnèguerais or abnéguerais /ab.nɛ.ɡʁɛ/ or /ab.ne.ɡʁɛ/	abnèguerais or abnéguerais /ab.nɛ.ɡʁɛ/ or /ab.ne.ɡʁɛ/	abnèguerait or abnéguerait /ab.nɛ.ɡʁɛ/ or /ab.ne.ɡʁɛ/	abnèguerions or abnéguerions /ab.nɛ.ɡə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ab.ne.ɡə.ʁjɔ̃/	abnègueriez or abnégueriez /ab.nɛ.ɡə.ʁje/ or /ab.ne.ɡə.ʁje/	abnègueraient or abnégueraient /ab.nɛ.ɡʁɛ/ or /ab.ne.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	abnègue /ab.nɛɡ/	abnègues /ab.nɛɡ/	abnègue /ab.nɛɡ/	abnéguions /ab.ne.ɡjɔ̃/	abnéguiez /ab.ne.ɡje/	abnèguent /ab.nɛɡ/
	imperfect2	abnéguasse /ab.ne.ɡas/	abnéguasses /ab.ne.ɡas/	abnéguât /ab.ne.ɡa/	abnéguassions /ab.ne.ɡa.sjɔ̃/	abnéguassiez /ab.ne.ɡa.sje/	abnéguassent /ab.ne.ɡas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	abnègue /ab.nɛɡ/	—	abnéguons /ab.ne.ɡɔ̃/	abnéguez /ab.ne.ɡe/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).