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piéger
piéger
French
Verb
piéger
- to trap (catch in a trap)
- Deux hommes armés m'attendaient devant ma maison : ils ont voulu me piéger.
- Two armed men had been waiting for me outside my house: they wanted to trap me.
- Deux hommes armés m'attendaient devant ma maison : ils ont voulu me piéger.
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like protéger. It has both the spelling irregularities of other verbs in -ger (such as manger, where a silent ‘e’ is inserted before ‘a’ and ‘o’ endings (to indicate the /ʒ/ sound), and the spelling and pronunciation irregularities of other verbs in -é-er (such as céder), where the last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’).
Conjugation of piéger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | piéger | avoir piégé | |||||
| gerund | en piégeant | en ayant piégé | |||||
| present participle | piégeant /pje.ʒɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | piégé /pje.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 | piège /pjɛʒ/ |
pièges /pjɛʒ/ |
piège /pjɛʒ/ |
piégeons /pje.ʒɔ̃/ |
piégez /pje.ʒe/ |
piègent /pjɛʒ/ |
| imperfect | piégeais /pje.ʒɛ/ |
piégeais /pje.ʒɛ/ |
piégeait /pje.ʒɛ/ |
piégions /pje.ʒjɔ̃/ |
piégiez /pje.ʒje/ |
piégeaient /pje.ʒɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | piégeai /pje.ʒe/ |
piégeas /pje.ʒa/ |
piégea /pje.ʒa/ |
piégeâmes /pje.ʒam/ |
piégeâtes /pje.ʒat/ |
piégèrent /pje.ʒɛʁ/ |
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| future | piégerai or piègerai /pjɛʒ.ʁe/ |
piégeras or piègeras /pjɛʒ.ʁa/ |
piégera or piègera /pjɛʒ.ʁa/ |
piégerons or piègerons /pjɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
piégerez or piègerez /pjɛʒ.ʁe/ |
piégeront or piègeront /pjɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | piégerais or piègerais /pjɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
piégerais or piègerais /pjɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
piégerait or piègerait /pjɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
piégerions or piègerions /pjɛ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
piégeriez or piègeriez /pjɛ.ʒə.ʁje/ |
piégeraient or piègeraient /pjɛʒ.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 | piège /pjɛʒ/ |
pièges /pjɛʒ/ |
piège /pjɛʒ/ |
piégions /pje.ʒjɔ̃/ |
piégiez /pje.ʒje/ |
piègent /pjɛʒ/ |
| imperfect1 |
piégeasse /pje.ʒas/ |
piégeasses /pje.ʒas/ |
piégeât /pje.ʒa/ |
piégeassions /pje.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
piégeassiez /pje.ʒa.sje/ |
piégeassent /pje.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 | – | |
| — | piège /pjɛʒ/ |
— | piégeons /pje.ʒɔ̃/ |
piégez /pje.ʒe/ |
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