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submerger
submerger
French
Verb
submerger
- to submerge
- Ce navire a été submergé.
- to be engulfed in or with something.
- Je suis submergé de travail.
Synonyms
submerger has most of the time a passive voice, active and transitive synonym is immerger
Related terms
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written submerge- 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 submerger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | submerger | avoir submergé | |||||
| gerund | en submergeant | en ayant submergé | |||||
| present participle | submergeant /syb.mɛʁ.ʒɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | submergé /syb.mɛʁ.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 | submerge /syb.mɛʁʒ/ |
submerges /syb.mɛʁʒ/ |
submerge /syb.mɛʁʒ/ |
submergeons /syb.mɛʁ.ʒɔ̃/ |
submergez /syb.mɛʁ.ʒe/ |
submergent /syb.mɛʁʒ/ |
| imperfect | submergeais /syb.mɛʁ.ʒɛ/ |
submergeais /syb.mɛʁ.ʒɛ/ |
submergeait /syb.mɛʁ.ʒɛ/ |
submergions /syb.mɛʁ.ʒjɔ̃/ |
submergiez /syb.mɛʁ.ʒje/ |
submergeaient /syb.mɛʁ.ʒɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | submergeai /syb.mɛʁ.ʒe/ |
submergeas /syb.mɛʁ.ʒa/ |
submergea /syb.mɛʁ.ʒa/ |
submergeâmes /syb.mɛʁ.ʒam/ |
submergeâtes /syb.mɛʁ.ʒat/ |
submergèrent /syb.mɛʁ.ʒɛʁ/ |
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| future | submergerai /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁe/ |
submergeras /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁa/ |
submergera /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁa/ |
submergerons /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/ |
submergerez /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁe/ |
submergeront /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | submergerais /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/ |
submergerais /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/ |
submergerait /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/ |
submergerions /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
submergeriez /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁje/ |
submergeraient /syb.mɛʁ.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 | submerge /syb.mɛʁʒ/ |
submerges /syb.mɛʁʒ/ |
submerge /syb.mɛʁʒ/ |
submergions /syb.mɛʁ.ʒjɔ̃/ |
submergiez /syb.mɛʁ.ʒje/ |
submergent /syb.mɛʁʒ/ |
| imperfect1 |
submergeasse /syb.mɛʁ.ʒas/ |
submergeasses /syb.mɛʁ.ʒas/ |
submergeât /syb.mɛʁ.ʒa/ |
submergeassions /syb.mɛʁ.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
submergeassiez /syb.mɛʁ.ʒa.sje/ |
submergeassent /syb.mɛʁ.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 | – | |
| — | submerge /syb.mɛʁʒ/ |
— | submergeons /syb.mɛʁ.ʒɔ̃/ |
submergez /syb.mɛʁ.ʒe/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
References
- “submerger” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).