protéger
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See also: proteger
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin prōtegere.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]protéger
- (transitive) to protect
- protéger de / protéger contre ― to protect against
- 2018, Zaz, On s'en remet jamais:
- Est-ce que nos souvenirs nous protègent ? Sont-ils emportés par le temps ?
- Do our memories protect us? Are they swept away by time?
- (reflexive) to protect oneself
- se protéger de la chaleur ― to protect oneself from the heat
- (reflexive, indirect) to protect one's ...
- se protéger les yeux du soleil ― to protect one's eyes from the sun
- (reflexive, reciprocal) to protect each other
- se protéger l’un l’autre ― to protect each other
Conjugation
[edit]This verb is conjugated like assiéger. 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 protéger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | protéger | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | protégeant /pʁɔ.te.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | protégé /pʁɔ.te.ʒe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | protège /pʁɔ.tɛʒ/ |
protèges /pʁɔ.tɛʒ/ |
protège /pʁɔ.tɛʒ/ |
protégeons /pʁɔ.te.ʒɔ̃/ |
protégez /pʁɔ.te.ʒe/ |
protègent /pʁɔ.tɛʒ/ |
imperfect | protégeais /pʁɔ.te.ʒɛ/ |
protégeais /pʁɔ.te.ʒɛ/ |
protégeait /pʁɔ.te.ʒɛ/ |
protégions /pʁɔ.te.ʒjɔ̃/ |
protégiez /pʁɔ.te.ʒje/ |
protégeaient /pʁɔ.te.ʒɛ/ | |
past historic2 | protégeai /pʁɔ.te.ʒe/ |
protégeas /pʁɔ.te.ʒa/ |
protégea /pʁɔ.te.ʒa/ |
protégeâmes /pʁɔ.te.ʒam/ |
protégeâtes /pʁɔ.te.ʒat/ |
protégèrent /pʁɔ.te.ʒɛʁ/ | |
future | protégerai or protègerai /pʁɔ.tɛʒ.ʁe/ |
protégeras or protègeras /pʁɔ.tɛʒ.ʁa/ |
protégera or protègera /pʁɔ.tɛʒ.ʁa/ |
protégerons or protègerons /pʁɔ.tɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
protégerez or protègerez /pʁɔ.tɛʒ.ʁe/ |
protégeront or protègeront /pʁɔ.tɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | protégerais or protègerais /pʁɔ.tɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
protégerais or protègerais /pʁɔ.tɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
protégerait or protègerait /pʁɔ.tɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
protégerions or protègerions /pʁɔ.tɛ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /pʁɔ.te.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
protégeriez or protègeriez /pʁɔ.tɛ.ʒə.ʁje/ or /pʁɔ.te.ʒə.ʁje/ |
protégeraient or protègeraient /pʁɔ.tɛʒ.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 | protège /pʁɔ.tɛʒ/ |
protèges /pʁɔ.tɛʒ/ |
protège /pʁɔ.tɛʒ/ |
protégions /pʁɔ.te.ʒjɔ̃/ |
protégiez /pʁɔ.te.ʒje/ |
protègent /pʁɔ.tɛʒ/ |
imperfect2 | protégeasse /pʁɔ.te.ʒas/ |
protégeasses /pʁɔ.te.ʒas/ |
protégeât /pʁɔ.te.ʒa/ |
protégeassions /pʁɔ.te.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
protégeassiez /pʁɔ.te.ʒa.sje/ |
protégeassent /pʁɔ.te.ʒas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | protège /pʁɔ.tɛʒ/ |
— | protégeons /pʁɔ.te.ʒɔ̃/ |
protégez /pʁɔ.te.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). |
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Romanian: proteja
Further reading
[edit]- “protéger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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