arpéger
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]arpéger
Conjugation
[edit]This verb is conjugated like protéger. It has both the spelling irregularities of other verbs in -ger (such as manger, where a silent 'e' is inserted before 'a' and 'o' endings (to indicate the /ʒ/ sound), and the spelling and pronunciation irregularities of other verbs in -é-er (such as céder), where the last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written 'é') and /ɛ/ (written 'è').
Conjugation of arpéger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | arpéger | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | arpégeant /aʁ.pe.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | arpégé /aʁ.pe.ʒe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | arpège /aʁ.pɛʒ/ |
arpèges /aʁ.pɛʒ/ |
arpège /aʁ.pɛʒ/ |
arpégeons /aʁ.pe.ʒɔ̃/ |
arpégez /aʁ.pe.ʒe/ |
arpègent /aʁ.pɛʒ/ |
| imperfect | arpégeais /aʁ.pe.ʒɛ/ |
arpégeais /aʁ.pe.ʒɛ/ |
arpégeait /aʁ.pe.ʒɛ/ |
arpégions /aʁ.pe.ʒjɔ̃/ |
arpégiez /aʁ.pe.ʒje/ |
arpégeaient /aʁ.pe.ʒɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | arpégeai /aʁ.pe.ʒe/ |
arpégeas /aʁ.pe.ʒa/ |
arpégea /aʁ.pe.ʒa/ |
arpégeâmes /aʁ.pe.ʒam/ |
arpégeâtes /aʁ.pe.ʒat/ |
arpégèrent /aʁ.pe.ʒɛʁ/ | |
| future | arpégerai or arpègerai /aʁ.pɛʒ.ʁe/ |
arpégeras or arpègeras /aʁ.pɛʒ.ʁa/ |
arpégera or arpègera /aʁ.pɛʒ.ʁa/ |
arpégerons or arpègerons /aʁ.pɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
arpégerez or arpègerez /aʁ.pɛʒ.ʁe/ |
arpégeront or arpègeront /aʁ.pɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | arpégerais or arpègerais /aʁ.pɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
arpégerais or arpègerais /aʁ.pɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
arpégerait or arpègerait /aʁ.pɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
arpégerions or arpègerions /aʁ.pɛ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /aʁ.pe.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
arpégeriez or arpègeriez /aʁ.pɛ.ʒə.ʁje/ or /aʁ.pe.ʒə.ʁje/ |
arpégeraient or arpègeraient /aʁ.pɛʒ.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 | arpège /aʁ.pɛʒ/ |
arpèges /aʁ.pɛʒ/ |
arpège /aʁ.pɛʒ/ |
arpégions /aʁ.pe.ʒjɔ̃/ |
arpégiez /aʁ.pe.ʒje/ |
arpègent /aʁ.pɛʒ/ |
| imperfect2 | arpégeasse /aʁ.pe.ʒas/ |
arpégeasses /aʁ.pe.ʒas/ |
arpégeât /aʁ.pe.ʒa/ |
arpégeassions /aʁ.pe.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
arpégeassiez /aʁ.pe.ʒa.sje/ |
arpégeassent /aʁ.pe.ʒas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | arpège /aʁ.pɛʒ/ |
— | arpégeons /aʁ.pe.ʒɔ̃/ |
arpégez /aʁ.pe.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
[edit]- “arpéger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.