abréger

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French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French abregier, itself from Late Latin abbreviāre. Doublet of abrévier, a (now obsolete) borrowing. See also abréviation.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.bʁe.ʒe/
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Verb

abréger

  1. to shorten in duration
  2. to shorten (in textual length) or summarize, to abridge
  3. to abbreviate
    • 1991, L'Encyclopédie Grolier, volume 1, A-Asc, →ISBN, s.v. "abréviation":
      Les principales façon d’abréger les mots étaient connus dans le monde latin […]
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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)
infinitive simple abréger
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple abrégeant
/a.bʁe.ʒɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle abrégé
/a.bʁe.ʒe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(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/
past historic2 abrégeai
/a.bʁe.ʒe/ 		abrégeas
/a.bʁe.ʒa/ 		abrégea
/a.bʁe.ʒa/ 		abrégeâmes
/a.bʁe.ʒam/ 		abrégeâtes
/a.bʁe.ʒat/ 		abrégèrent
/a.bʁe.ʒɛʁ/
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/
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/ or /a.bʁe.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		abrégeriez or abrègeriez
/a.bʁɛ.ʒə.ʁje/ or /a.bʁe.ʒə.ʁje/ 		abrégeraient or abrègeraient
/a.bʁɛʒ.ʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present abrège
/a.bʁɛʒ/ 		abrèges
/a.bʁɛʒ/ 		abrège
/a.bʁɛʒ/ 		abrégions
/a.bʁe.ʒjɔ̃/ 		abrégiez
/a.bʁe.ʒje/ 		abrègent
/a.bʁɛʒ/
imperfect2 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/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — abrège
/a.bʁɛʒ/ 		— abrégeons
/a.bʁe.ʒɔ̃/ 		abrégez
/a.bʁe.ʒe/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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