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diriger
diriger
French
Verb
diriger
- (transitive) to run; to direct (be the director of)
- Il dirige son entreprise avec passion.
- He runs his business with passion.
- Il dirige son entreprise avec passion.
- to supervise; to oversee
- to steer (vehicles)
- Il sait bien diriger le bateau.
- He knows how to steer the boat.
- Il sait bien diriger le bateau.
- to aim, to direct
- Dirigez vos armes à l'ennemi.
- Aim your weapons at the enemy.
- Dirigez vos armes à l'ennemi.
- to direct (a film)
- (reflexive, se diriger) To go towards; to head (for)
- Le camion se dirige vers la falaise.
- The truck is heading for the cliff.
- Le camion se dirige vers la falaise.
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written dirige- 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 diriger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | diriger | avoir dirigé | |||||
| gerund | en dirigeant | en ayant dirigé | |||||
| present participle | dirigeant /di.ʁi.ʒɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | dirigé /di.ʁi.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 | dirige /di.ʁiʒ/ |
diriges /di.ʁiʒ/ |
dirige /di.ʁiʒ/ |
dirigeons /di.ʁi.ʒɔ̃/ |
dirigez /di.ʁi.ʒe/ |
dirigent /di.ʁiʒ/ |
| imperfect | dirigeais /di.ʁi.ʒɛ/ |
dirigeais /di.ʁi.ʒɛ/ |
dirigeait /di.ʁi.ʒɛ/ |
dirigions /di.ʁi.ʒjɔ̃/ |
dirigiez /di.ʁi.ʒje/ |
dirigeaient /di.ʁi.ʒɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | dirigeai /di.ʁi.ʒe/ |
dirigeas /di.ʁi.ʒa/ |
dirigea /di.ʁi.ʒa/ |
dirigeâmes /di.ʁi.ʒam/ |
dirigeâtes /di.ʁi.ʒat/ |
dirigèrent /di.ʁi.ʒɛʁ/ |
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| future | dirigerai /di.ʁiʒ.ʁe/ |
dirigeras /di.ʁiʒ.ʁa/ |
dirigera /di.ʁiʒ.ʁa/ |
dirigerons /di.ʁiʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
dirigerez /di.ʁiʒ.ʁe/ |
dirigeront /di.ʁiʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | dirigerais /di.ʁiʒ.ʁɛ/ |
dirigerais /di.ʁiʒ.ʁɛ/ |
dirigerait /di.ʁiʒ.ʁɛ/ |
dirigerions /di.ʁi.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
dirigeriez /di.ʁi.ʒə.ʁje/ |
dirigeraient /di.ʁiʒ.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 | dirige /di.ʁiʒ/ |
diriges /di.ʁiʒ/ |
dirige /di.ʁiʒ/ |
dirigions /di.ʁi.ʒjɔ̃/ |
dirigiez /di.ʁi.ʒje/ |
dirigent /di.ʁiʒ/ |
| imperfect1 |
dirigeasse /di.ʁi.ʒas/ |
dirigeasses /di.ʁi.ʒas/ |
dirigeât /di.ʁi.ʒa/ |
dirigeassions /di.ʁi.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
dirigeassiez /di.ʁi.ʒa.sje/ |
dirigeassent /di.ʁi.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 | – | |
| — | dirige /di.ʁiʒ/ |
— | dirigeons /di.ʁi.ʒɔ̃/ |
dirigez /di.ʁi.ʒe/ |
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