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insurger
insurger
French
Verb
insurger
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written insurge- 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 insurger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | insurger | avoir insurgé | |||||
| gerund | en insurgeant | en ayant insurgé | |||||
| present participle |  insurgeant /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒɑ̃/  | 
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| past participle |  insurgé /ɛ̃.syʁ.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 |  insurge /ɛ̃.syʁʒ/  | 
 insurges /ɛ̃.syʁʒ/  | 
 insurge /ɛ̃.syʁʒ/  | 
 insurgeons /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒɔ̃/  | 
 insurgez /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒe/  | 
 insurgent /ɛ̃.syʁʒ/  | 
| imperfect |  insurgeais /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒɛ/  | 
 insurgeais /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒɛ/  | 
 insurgeait /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒɛ/  | 
 insurgions /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒjɔ̃/  | 
 insurgiez /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒje/  | 
 insurgeaient /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒɛ/  | 
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| past historic1 |  insurgeai /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒe/  | 
insurgeas /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒa/  | 
insurgea /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒa/  | 
insurgeâmes /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒam/  | 
insurgeâtes /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒat/  | 
insurgèrent /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒɛʁ/  | 
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| future |  insurgerai /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒə.ʁe/  | 
 insurgeras /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒə.ʁa/  | 
 insurgera /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒə.ʁa/  | 
 insurgerons /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/  | 
 insurgerez /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒə.ʁe/  | 
 insurgeront /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/  | 
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| conditional |  insurgerais /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/  | 
 insurgerais /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/  | 
 insurgerait /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/  | 
 insurgerions /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/  | 
 insurgeriez /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒə.ʁje/  | 
 insurgeraient /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒə.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 |  insurge /ɛ̃.syʁʒ/  | 
 insurges /ɛ̃.syʁʒ/  | 
 insurge /ɛ̃.syʁʒ/  | 
 insurgions /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒjɔ̃/  | 
 insurgiez /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒje/  | 
 insurgent /ɛ̃.syʁʒ/  | 
| imperfect1 | 
insurgeasse /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒas/  | 
insurgeasses /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒas/  | 
insurgeât /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒa/  | 
insurgeassions /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒa.sjɔ̃/  | 
insurgeassiez /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒa.sje/  | 
insurgeassent /ɛ̃.syʁ.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 | – | |
| — |  insurge /ɛ̃.syʁʒ/  | 
— |  insurgeons /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒɔ̃/  | 
 insurgez /ɛ̃.syʁ.ʒe/  | 
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