arpéger

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aʁ.pe.ʒe/
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Verb

arpéger

  1. (music) to play an arpeggio

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 arpéger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple arpéger
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple arpégeant
/aʁ.pe.ʒɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle arpégé
/aʁ.pe.ʒe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present arpège
/aʁ.pɛʒ/ 		arpèges
/aʁ.pɛʒ/ 		arpège
/aʁ.pɛʒ/ 		arpégeons
/aʁ.pe.ʒɔ̃/ 		arpégez
/aʁ.pe.ʒe/ 		arpègent
/aʁ.pɛʒ/
imperfect arpégeais
/aʁ.pe.ʒɛ/ 		arpégeais
/aʁ.pe.ʒɛ/ 		arpégeait
/aʁ.pe.ʒɛ/ 		arpégions
/aʁ.pe.ʒjɔ̃/ 		arpégiez
/aʁ.pe.ʒje/ 		arpégeaient
/aʁ.pe.ʒɛ/
past historic2 arpégeai
/aʁ.pe.ʒe/ 		arpégeas
/aʁ.pe.ʒa/ 		arpégea
/aʁ.pe.ʒa/ 		arpégeâmes
/aʁ.pe.ʒam/ 		arpégeâtes
/aʁ.pe.ʒat/ 		arpégèrent
/aʁ.pe.ʒɛʁ/
future arpégerai or arpègerai
/aʁ.pɛʒ.ʁe/ 		arpégeras or arpègeras
/aʁ.pɛʒ.ʁa/ 		arpégera or arpègera
/aʁ.pɛʒ.ʁa/ 		arpégerons or arpègerons
/aʁ.pɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/ 		arpégerez or arpègerez
/aʁ.pɛʒ.ʁe/ 		arpégeront or arpègeront
/aʁ.pɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/
conditional arpégerais or arpègerais
/aʁ.pɛʒ.ʁɛ/ 		arpégerais or arpègerais
/aʁ.pɛʒ.ʁɛ/ 		arpégerait or arpègerait
/aʁ.pɛʒ.ʁɛ/ 		arpégerions or arpègerions
/aʁ.pɛ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /aʁ.pe.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		arpégeriez or arpègeriez
/aʁ.pɛ.ʒə.ʁje/ or /aʁ.pe.ʒə.ʁje/ 		arpégeraient or arpègeraient
/aʁ.pɛʒ.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 arpège
/aʁ.pɛʒ/ 		arpèges
/aʁ.pɛʒ/ 		arpège
/aʁ.pɛʒ/ 		arpégions
/aʁ.pe.ʒjɔ̃/ 		arpégiez
/aʁ.pe.ʒje/ 		arpègent
/aʁ.pɛʒ/
imperfect2 arpégeasse
/aʁ.pe.ʒas/ 		arpégeasses
/aʁ.pe.ʒas/ 		arpégeât
/aʁ.pe.ʒa/ 		arpégeassions
/aʁ.pe.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ 		arpégeassiez
/aʁ.pe.ʒa.sje/ 		arpégeassent
/aʁ.pe.ʒas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — arpège
/aʁ.pɛʒ/ 		— arpégeons
/aʁ.pe.ʒɔ̃/ 		arpégez
/aʁ.pe.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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