afféager

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

afféager

1. to enfeoff

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written afféage- 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 afféager (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	afféager
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	afféageant /a.fe.a.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		afféagé /a.fe.a.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	afféage /a.fe.aʒ/	afféages /a.fe.aʒ/	afféage /a.fe.aʒ/	afféageons /a.fe.a.ʒɔ̃/	afféagez /a.fe.a.ʒe/	afféagent /a.fe.aʒ/
	imperfect	afféageais /a.fe.a.ʒɛ/	afféageais /a.fe.a.ʒɛ/	afféageait /a.fe.a.ʒɛ/	afféagions /a.fe.a.ʒjɔ̃/	afféagiez /a.fe.a.ʒje/	afféageaient /a.fe.a.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	afféageai /a.fe.a.ʒe/	afféageas /a.fe.a.ʒa/	afféagea /a.fe.a.ʒa/	afféageâmes /a.fe.a.ʒam/	afféageâtes /a.fe.a.ʒat/	afféagèrent /a.fe.a.ʒɛʁ/
	future	afféagerai /a.fe.aʒ.ʁe/	afféageras /a.fe.aʒ.ʁa/	afféagera /a.fe.aʒ.ʁa/	afféagerons /a.fe.aʒ.ʁɔ̃/	afféagerez /a.fe.aʒ.ʁe/	afféageront /a.fe.aʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	afféagerais /a.fe.aʒ.ʁɛ/	afféagerais /a.fe.aʒ.ʁɛ/	afféagerait /a.fe.aʒ.ʁɛ/	afféagerions /a.fe.a.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	afféageriez /a.fe.a.ʒə.ʁje/	afféageraient /a.fe.aʒ.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	afféage /a.fe.aʒ/	afféages /a.fe.aʒ/	afféage /a.fe.aʒ/	afféagions /a.fe.a.ʒjɔ̃/	afféagiez /a.fe.a.ʒje/	afféagent /a.fe.aʒ/
	imperfect2	afféageasse /a.fe.a.ʒas/	afféageasses /a.fe.a.ʒas/	afféageât /a.fe.a.ʒa/	afféageassions /a.fe.a.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	afféageassiez /a.fe.a.ʒa.sje/	afféageassent /a.fe.a.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	afféage /a.fe.aʒ/	—	afféageons /a.fe.a.ʒɔ̃/	afféagez /a.fe.a.ʒe/	—
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).

Further reading

• “afféager”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.