piéger

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French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French piegier, from Old French piegier. By surface analysis, piège +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pje.ʒe/
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Verb

piéger

  1. to trap (catch in a trap), to trick, to set up
    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.

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)
infinitive simple piéger
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple piégeant
/pje.ʒɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle piégé
/pje.ʒe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(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/
past historic2 piégeai
/pje.ʒe/ 		piégeas
/pje.ʒa/ 		piégea
/pje.ʒa/ 		piégeâmes
/pje.ʒam/ 		piégeâtes
/pje.ʒat/ 		piégèrent
/pje.ʒɛʁ/
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/
conditional piégerais or piègerais
/pjɛʒ.ʁɛ/ 		piégerais or piègerais
/pjɛʒ.ʁɛ/ 		piégerait or piègerait
/pjɛʒ.ʁɛ/ 		piégerions or piègerions
/pjɛ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /pje.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		piégeriez or piègeriez
/pjɛ.ʒə.ʁje/ or /pje.ʒə.ʁje/ 		piégeraient or piègeraient
/pjɛʒ.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 piège
/pjɛʒ/ 		pièges
/pjɛʒ/ 		piège
/pjɛʒ/ 		piégions
/pje.ʒjɔ̃/ 		piégiez
/pje.ʒje/ 		piègent
/pjɛʒ/
imperfect2 piégeasse
/pje.ʒas/ 		piégeasses
/pje.ʒas/ 		piégeât
/pje.ʒa/ 		piégeassions
/pje.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ 		piégeassiez
/pje.ʒa.sje/ 		piégeassent
/pje.ʒas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — piège
/pjɛʒ/ 		— piégeons
/pje.ʒɔ̃/ 		piégez
/pje.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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