partager

French

Etymology

From partage +‎ -er. Displaced partir in the sense of "to share, to divide".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paʁ.ta.ʒe/

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Verb

partager

1. to share

   Nous allons partager les bénéfices ― We are going to share the benefits

   Le Canada entretient une relation de premier plan avec les États-Unis, pays avec lequel il partage la plus longue frontière non défendue du monde, frontière où les échanges économiques transfrontaliers sont parmi les plus importants du globe.

   Canada maintains a high-profile relationship with the United States, a country with which it shares the longest undefended border in the world, a border where the cross-border economic exchanges are among the most important on the globe.

2. to divide up

   Ils partagèrent la succession en deux ― They divided the estate in two

3. to divide

   Les questions de la guerre et de la paix partageront le pays ― Issues of war and peace will divide the country.

4. to share out

   Je partageai les provisions avec tout le monde ― I shared the provisions with everyone.

Conjugation

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

infinitive	simple	partager
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	partageant /paʁ.ta.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		partagé /paʁ.ta.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	partage /paʁ.taʒ/	partages /paʁ.taʒ/	partage /paʁ.taʒ/	partageons /paʁ.ta.ʒɔ̃/	partagez /paʁ.ta.ʒe/	partagent /paʁ.taʒ/
	imperfect	partageais /paʁ.ta.ʒɛ/	partageais /paʁ.ta.ʒɛ/	partageait /paʁ.ta.ʒɛ/	partagions /paʁ.ta.ʒjɔ̃/	partagiez /paʁ.ta.ʒje/	partageaient /paʁ.ta.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	partageai /paʁ.ta.ʒe/	partageas /paʁ.ta.ʒa/	partagea /paʁ.ta.ʒa/	partageâmes /paʁ.ta.ʒam/	partageâtes /paʁ.ta.ʒat/	partagèrent /paʁ.ta.ʒɛʁ/
	future	partagerai /paʁ.taʒ.ʁe/	partageras /paʁ.taʒ.ʁa/	partagera /paʁ.taʒ.ʁa/	partagerons /paʁ.taʒ.ʁɔ̃/	partagerez /paʁ.taʒ.ʁe/	partageront /paʁ.taʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	partagerais /paʁ.taʒ.ʁɛ/	partagerais /paʁ.taʒ.ʁɛ/	partagerait /paʁ.taʒ.ʁɛ/	partagerions /paʁ.ta.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	partageriez /paʁ.ta.ʒə.ʁje/	partageraient /paʁ.taʒ.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	partage /paʁ.taʒ/	partages /paʁ.taʒ/	partage /paʁ.taʒ/	partagions /paʁ.ta.ʒjɔ̃/	partagiez /paʁ.ta.ʒje/	partagent /paʁ.taʒ/
	imperfect2	partageasse /paʁ.ta.ʒas/	partageasses /paʁ.ta.ʒas/	partageât /paʁ.ta.ʒa/	partageassions /paʁ.ta.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	partageassiez /paʁ.ta.ʒa.sje/	partageassent /paʁ.ta.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	partage /paʁ.taʒ/	—	partageons /paʁ.ta.ʒɔ̃/	partagez /paʁ.ta.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

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