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abréger
abréger
French
Verb
abréger
- to shorten in duration.
- to shorten (in textual length) or summarize, to abridge.
- to abbreviate.
- 1991, s.v. "abréviation", L'Encyclopédie Grolier (vol. 1, A-Asc), ISBN 0-7172-2779-7,
- Les principales façon d'abréger les mots étaient connus dans le monde latin […]
- 1991, s.v. "abréviation", L'Encyclopédie Grolier (vol. 1, A-Asc), ISBN 0-7172-2779-7,
Derived terms
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 abréger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | abréger | avoir abrégé | |||||
| gerund | en abrégeant | en ayant abrégé | |||||
| present participle | abrégeant /a.bʁe.ʒɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | abrégé /a.bʁe.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 | abrège /a.bʁɛʒ/ |
abrèges /a.bʁɛʒ/ |
abrège /a.bʁɛʒ/ |
abrégeons /a.bʁe.ʒɔ̃/ |
abrégez /a.bʁe.ʒe/ |
abrègent /a.bʁɛʒ/ |
| imperfect | abrégeais /a.bʁe.ʒɛ/ |
abrégeais /a.bʁe.ʒɛ/ |
abrégeait /a.bʁe.ʒɛ/ |
abrégions /a.bʁe.ʒjɔ̃/ |
abrégiez /a.bʁe.ʒje/ |
abrégeaient /a.bʁe.ʒɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | abrégeai /a.bʁe.ʒe/ |
abrégeas /a.bʁe.ʒa/ |
abrégea /a.bʁe.ʒa/ |
abrégeâmes /a.bʁe.ʒam/ |
abrégeâtes /a.bʁe.ʒat/ |
abrégèrent /a.bʁe.ʒɛʁ/ |
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| future | abrégerai or abrègerai /a.bʁɛʒ.ʁe/ |
abrégeras or abrègeras /a.bʁɛʒ.ʁa/ |
abrégera or abrègera /a.bʁɛʒ.ʁa/ |
abrégerons or abrègerons /a.bʁɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
abrégerez or abrègerez /a.bʁɛʒ.ʁe/ |
abrégeront or abrègeront /a.bʁɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | abrégerais or abrègerais /a.bʁɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
abrégerais or abrègerais /a.bʁɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
abrégerait or abrègerait /a.bʁɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
abrégerions or abrègerions /a.bʁɛ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
abrégeriez or abrègeriez /a.bʁɛ.ʒə.ʁje/ |
abrégeraient or abrègeraient /a.bʁɛʒ.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 | abrège /a.bʁɛʒ/ |
abrèges /a.bʁɛʒ/ |
abrège /a.bʁɛʒ/ |
abrégions /a.bʁe.ʒjɔ̃/ |
abrégiez /a.bʁe.ʒje/ |
abrègent /a.bʁɛʒ/ |
| imperfect1 |
abrégeasse /a.bʁe.ʒas/ |
abrégeasses /a.bʁe.ʒas/ |
abrégeât /a.bʁe.ʒa/ |
abrégeassions /a.bʁe.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
abrégeassiez /a.bʁe.ʒa.sje/ |
abrégeassent /a.bʁe.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 | – | |
| — | abrège /a.bʁɛʒ/ |
— | abrégeons /a.bʁe.ʒɔ̃/ |
abrégez /a.bʁe.ʒe/ |
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