ségréguer

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se.ɡʁe.ɡe/

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Verb

ségréguer

1. Alternative form of ségréger (“to segregate”)

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 ségréguer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written ségrèguer-, 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 ségréguer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ségréguer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ségréguant /se.ɡʁe.ɡɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ségrégué /se.ɡʁe.ɡe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ségrègue /se.ɡʁɛɡ/	ségrègues /se.ɡʁɛɡ/	ségrègue /se.ɡʁɛɡ/	ségréguons /se.ɡʁe.ɡɔ̃/	ségréguez /se.ɡʁe.ɡe/	ségrèguent /se.ɡʁɛɡ/
	imperfect	ségréguais /se.ɡʁe.ɡɛ/	ségréguais /se.ɡʁe.ɡɛ/	ségréguait /se.ɡʁe.ɡɛ/	ségréguions /se.ɡʁe.ɡjɔ̃/	ségréguiez /se.ɡʁe.ɡje/	ségréguaient /se.ɡʁe.ɡɛ/
	past historic2	ségréguai /se.ɡʁe.ɡe/	ségréguas /se.ɡʁe.ɡa/	ségrégua /se.ɡʁe.ɡa/	ségréguâmes /se.ɡʁe.ɡam/	ségréguâtes /se.ɡʁe.ɡat/	ségréguèrent /se.ɡʁe.ɡɛʁ/
	future	ségrèguerai or ségréguerai /se.ɡʁɛ.ɡʁe/ or /se.ɡʁe.ɡʁe/	ségrègueras or ségrégueras /se.ɡʁɛ.ɡʁa/ or /se.ɡʁe.ɡʁa/	ségrèguera or ségréguera /se.ɡʁɛ.ɡʁa/ or /se.ɡʁe.ɡʁa/	ségrèguerons or ségréguerons /se.ɡʁɛ.ɡʁɔ̃/ or /se.ɡʁe.ɡʁɔ̃/	ségrèguerez or ségréguerez /se.ɡʁɛ.ɡʁe/ or /se.ɡʁe.ɡʁe/	ségrègueront or ségrégueront /se.ɡʁɛ.ɡʁɔ̃/ or /se.ɡʁe.ɡʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ségrèguerais or ségréguerais /se.ɡʁɛ.ɡʁɛ/ or /se.ɡʁe.ɡʁɛ/	ségrèguerais or ségréguerais /se.ɡʁɛ.ɡʁɛ/ or /se.ɡʁe.ɡʁɛ/	ségrèguerait or ségréguerait /se.ɡʁɛ.ɡʁɛ/ or /se.ɡʁe.ɡʁɛ/	ségrèguerions or ségréguerions /se.ɡʁɛ.ɡə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /se.ɡʁe.ɡə.ʁjɔ̃/	ségrègueriez or ségrégueriez /se.ɡʁɛ.ɡə.ʁje/ or /se.ɡʁe.ɡə.ʁje/	ségrègueraient or ségrégueraient /se.ɡʁɛ.ɡʁɛ/ or /se.ɡʁe.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	ségrègue /se.ɡʁɛɡ/	ségrègues /se.ɡʁɛɡ/	ségrègue /se.ɡʁɛɡ/	ségréguions /se.ɡʁe.ɡjɔ̃/	ségréguiez /se.ɡʁe.ɡje/	ségrèguent /se.ɡʁɛɡ/
	imperfect2	ségréguasse /se.ɡʁe.ɡas/	ségréguasses /se.ɡʁe.ɡas/	ségréguât /se.ɡʁe.ɡa/	ségréguassions /se.ɡʁe.ɡa.sjɔ̃/	ségréguassiez /se.ɡʁe.ɡa.sje/	ségréguassent /se.ɡʁe.ɡas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ségrègue /se.ɡʁɛɡ/	—	ségréguons /se.ɡʁe.ɡɔ̃/	ségréguez /se.ɡʁe.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).

Further reading

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