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digérer
digérer
French
Verb
digérer
- (literally and figuratively) to digest
- to come to terms with, to accept
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 digérer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written digèrer-, 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 digérer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | digérer | avoir digéré | |||||
| gerund | en digérant | en ayant digéré | |||||
| present participle | digérant /di.ʒe.ʁɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | digéré /di.ʒe.ʁe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | digère /di.ʒɛʁ/ |
digères /di.ʒɛʁ/ |
digère /di.ʒɛʁ/ |
digérons /di.ʒe.ʁɔ̃/ |
digérez /di.ʒe.ʁe/ |
digèrent /di.ʒɛʁ/ |
| imperfect | digérais /di.ʒe.ʁɛ/ |
digérais /di.ʒe.ʁɛ/ |
digérait /di.ʒe.ʁɛ/ |
digérions /di.ʒe.ʁjɔ̃/ |
digériez /di.ʒe.ʁje/ |
digéraient /di.ʒe.ʁɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | digérai /di.ʒe.ʁe/ |
digéras /di.ʒe.ʁa/ |
digéra /di.ʒe.ʁa/ |
digérâmes /di.ʒe.ʁam/ |
digérâtes /di.ʒe.ʁat/ |
digérèrent /di.ʒe.ʁɛʁ/ |
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| future | digèrerai or digérerai /di.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ |
digèreras or digéreras /di.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ |
digèrera or digérera /di.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁa/ |
digèrerons or digérerons /di.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
digèrerez or digérerez /di.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁe/ |
digèreront or digéreront /di.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | digèrerais or digérerais /di.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
digèrerais or digérerais /di.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
digèrerait or digérerait /di.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
digèrerions or digérerions /di.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
digèreriez or digéreriez /di.ʒɛ.ʁə.ʁje/ |
digèreraient or digéreraient /di.ʒɛ.ʁə.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 | digère /di.ʒɛʁ/ |
digères /di.ʒɛʁ/ |
digère /di.ʒɛʁ/ |
digérions /di.ʒe.ʁjɔ̃/ |
digériez /di.ʒe.ʁje/ |
digèrent /di.ʒɛʁ/ |
| imperfect1 |
digérasse /di.ʒe.ʁas/ |
digérasses /di.ʒe.ʁas/ |
digérât /di.ʒe.ʁa/ |
digérassions /di.ʒe.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
digérassiez /di.ʒe.ʁa.sje/ |
digérassent /di.ʒe.ʁas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | digère /di.ʒɛʁ/ |
— | digérons /di.ʒe.ʁɔ̃/ |
digérez /di.ʒe.ʁe/ |
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