partager

French

Etymology

From partage +‎ -er. Displaced partir in the sense of "to share, to divide".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paʁ.ta.ʒe/

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Verb

partager

1. to share

   Nous allons partager les bénéfices ― We are going to share the benefits

   Le Canada entretient une relation de premier plan avec les États-Unis, pays avec lequel il partage la plus longue frontière non défendue du monde, frontière où les échanges économiques transfrontaliers sont parmi les plus importants du globe.

   Canada maintains a high-profile relationship with the United States, a country with which it shares the longest undefended border in the world, a border where the cross-border economic exchanges are among the most important on the globe.

2. to divide up

   Ils partagèrent la succession en deux ― They divided the estate in two

3. to divide

   Les questions de la guerre et de la paix partageront le pays ― Issues of war and peace will divide the country.

4. to share out

   Je partageai les provisions avec tout le monde ― I shared the provisions with everyone.

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written partage- 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.

Further reading

• “partager”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.