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adjuger
adjuger
French
Verb
adjuger
- to auction
- to adjudicate
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, s'adjuger) to take (all for oneself), to grant (oneself) the prerogative to
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written adjuge- 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 adjuger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | adjuger | avoir adjugé | |||||
| gerund | en adjugeant | en ayant adjugé | |||||
| present participle | adjugeant /a.dʒy.ʒɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | adjugé /a.dʒy.ʒe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | adjuge /a.dʒyʒ/ |
adjuges /a.dʒyʒ/ |
adjuge /a.dʒyʒ/ |
adjugeons /a.dʒy.ʒɔ̃/ |
adjugez /a.dʒy.ʒe/ |
adjugent /a.dʒyʒ/ |
| imperfect | adjugeais /a.dʒy.ʒɛ/ |
adjugeais /a.dʒy.ʒɛ/ |
adjugeait /a.dʒy.ʒɛ/ |
adjugions /a.dʒy.ʒjɔ̃/ |
adjugiez /a.dʒy.ʒje/ |
adjugeaient /a.dʒy.ʒɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | adjugeai /a.dʒy.ʒe/ |
adjugeas /a.dʒy.ʒa/ |
adjugea /a.dʒy.ʒa/ |
adjugeâmes /a.dʒy.ʒam/ |
adjugeâtes /a.dʒy.ʒat/ |
adjugèrent /a.dʒy.ʒɛʁ/ |
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| future | adjugerai /a.dʒyʒ.ʁe/ |
adjugeras /a.dʒyʒ.ʁa/ |
adjugera /a.dʒyʒ.ʁa/ |
adjugerons /a.dʒyʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
adjugerez /a.dʒyʒ.ʁe/ |
adjugeront /a.dʒyʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | adjugerais /a.dʒyʒ.ʁɛ/ |
adjugerais /a.dʒyʒ.ʁɛ/ |
adjugerait /a.dʒyʒ.ʁɛ/ |
adjugerions /a.dʒy.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
adjugeriez /a.dʒy.ʒə.ʁje/ |
adjugeraient /a.dʒyʒ.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | adjuge /a.dʒyʒ/ |
adjuges /a.dʒyʒ/ |
adjuge /a.dʒyʒ/ |
adjugions /a.dʒy.ʒjɔ̃/ |
adjugiez /a.dʒy.ʒje/ |
adjugent /a.dʒyʒ/ |
| imperfect1 |
adjugeasse /a.dʒy.ʒas/ |
adjugeasses /a.dʒy.ʒas/ |
adjugeât /a.dʒy.ʒa/ |
adjugeassions /a.dʒy.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
adjugeassiez /a.dʒy.ʒa.sje/ |
adjugeassent /a.dʒy.ʒas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | adjuge /a.dʒyʒ/ |
— | adjugeons /a.dʒy.ʒɔ̃/ |
adjugez /a.dʒy.ʒe/ |
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