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léguer
léguer
French
Verb
léguer
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 léguer-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written lèguer-, 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 léguer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | léguer | avoir légué | |||||
| gerund | en léguant | en ayant légué | |||||
| present participle | léguant /le.ɡɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | légué /le.ɡe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | lègue /lɛɡ/ |
lègues /lɛɡ/ |
lègue /lɛɡ/ |
léguons /le.ɡɔ̃/ |
léguez /le.ɡe/ |
lèguent /lɛɡ/ |
| imperfect | léguais /le.ɡɛ/ |
léguais /le.ɡɛ/ |
léguait /le.ɡɛ/ |
léguions /le.ɡjɔ̃/ |
léguiez /le.ɡje/ |
léguaient /le.ɡɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | léguai /le.ɡe/ |
léguas /le.ɡa/ |
légua /le.ɡa/ |
léguâmes /le.ɡam/ |
léguâtes /le.ɡat/ |
léguèrent /le.ɡɛʁ/ |
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| future | lèguerai or léguerai /lɛ.ɡʁe/ |
lègueras or légueras /lɛ.ɡʁa/ |
lèguera or léguera /lɛ.ɡʁa/ |
lèguerons or léguerons /lɛ.ɡʁɔ̃/ |
lèguerez or léguerez /lɛ.ɡʁe/ |
lègueront or légueront /lɛ.ɡʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | lèguerais or léguerais /lɛ.ɡʁɛ/ |
lèguerais or léguerais /lɛ.ɡʁɛ/ |
lèguerait or léguerait /lɛ.ɡʁɛ/ |
lèguerions or léguerions /lɛ.ɡə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
lègueriez or légueriez /lɛ.ɡə.ʁje/ |
lègueraient or légueraient /lɛ.ɡʁɛ/ |
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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 | lègue /lɛɡ/ |
lègues /lɛɡ/ |
lègue /lɛɡ/ |
léguions /le.ɡjɔ̃/ |
léguiez /le.ɡje/ |
lèguent /lɛɡ/ |
| imperfect1 |
léguasse /le.ɡas/ |
léguasses /le.ɡas/ |
léguât /le.ɡa/ |
léguassions /le.ɡa.sjɔ̃/ |
léguassiez /le.ɡa.sje/ |
léguassent /le.ɡas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | lègue /lɛɡ/ |
— | léguons /le.ɡɔ̃/ |
léguez /le.ɡe/ |
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