suggérer

French

Etymology

From Latin suggerere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syɡ.ʒe.ʁe/

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Verb

suggérer

1. to suggest, propose

   Elles suggéraient une démonstration de maquillage. ― They suggested a cosmetic makeover.

2. to evoke, suggest

   Son attitude suggère une dépression nerveuse imminente. ― His attitude suggests an imminent nervous breakdown.

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

infinitive	simple	suggérer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	suggérant /syɡ.ʒe.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		suggéré /syɡ.ʒe.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	suggère /syɡ.ʒɛʁ/	suggères /syɡ.ʒɛʁ/	suggère /syɡ.ʒɛʁ/	suggérons /syɡ.ʒe.ʁɔ̃/	suggérez /syɡ.ʒe.ʁe/	suggèrent /syɡ.ʒɛʁ/
	imperfect	suggérais /syɡ.ʒe.ʁɛ/	suggérais /syɡ.ʒe.ʁɛ/	suggérait /syɡ.ʒe.ʁɛ/	suggérions /syɡ.ʒe.ʁjɔ̃/	suggériez /syɡ.ʒe.ʁje/	suggéraient /syɡ.ʒe.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	suggérai /syɡ.ʒe.ʁe/	suggéras /syɡ.ʒe.ʁa/	suggéra /syɡ.ʒe.ʁa/	suggérâmes /syɡ.ʒe.ʁam/	suggérâtes /syɡ.ʒe.ʁat/	suggérèrent /syɡ.ʒe.ʁɛʁ/
	future	suggèrerai or suggérerai /syɡ.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /syɡ.ʒe.ʁə.ʁe/	suggèreras or suggéreras /syɡ.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /syɡ.ʒe.ʁə.ʁa/	suggèrera or suggérera /syɡ.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ or /syɡ.ʒe.ʁə.ʁa/	suggèrerons or suggérerons /syɡ.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /syɡ.ʒe.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	suggèrerez or suggérerez /syɡ.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ or /syɡ.ʒe.ʁə.ʁe/	suggèreront or suggéreront /syɡ.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /syɡ.ʒe.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	suggèrerais or suggérerais /syɡ.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /syɡ.ʒe.ʁə.ʁɛ/	suggèrerais or suggérerais /syɡ.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /syɡ.ʒe.ʁə.ʁɛ/	suggèrerait or suggérerait /syɡ.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /syɡ.ʒe.ʁə.ʁɛ/	suggèrerions or suggérerions /syɡ.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /syɡ.ʒe.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	suggèreriez or suggéreriez /syɡ.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ or /syɡ.ʒe.ʁə.ʁje/	suggèreraient or suggéreraient /syɡ.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ or /syɡ.ʒe.ʁə.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	suggère /syɡ.ʒɛʁ/	suggères /syɡ.ʒɛʁ/	suggère /syɡ.ʒɛʁ/	suggérions /syɡ.ʒe.ʁjɔ̃/	suggériez /syɡ.ʒe.ʁje/	suggèrent /syɡ.ʒɛʁ/
	imperfect2	suggérasse /syɡ.ʒe.ʁas/	suggérasses /syɡ.ʒe.ʁas/	suggérât /syɡ.ʒe.ʁa/	suggérassions /syɡ.ʒe.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	suggérassiez /syɡ.ʒe.ʁa.sje/	suggérassent /syɡ.ʒe.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	suggère /syɡ.ʒɛʁ/	—	suggérons /syɡ.ʒe.ʁɔ̃/	suggérez /syɡ.ʒe.ʁe/	—
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

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