immerger
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin immergere.
Pronunciation
Verb
immerger
- to immerse
Conjugation
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written immerge- 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.
Conjugation of immerger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | immerger | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | immergeant /i.mɛʁ.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | immergé /i.mɛʁ.ʒe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | immerge /i.mɛʁʒ/ |
immerges /i.mɛʁʒ/ |
immerge /i.mɛʁʒ/ |
immergeons /i.mɛʁ.ʒɔ̃/ |
immergez /i.mɛʁ.ʒe/ |
immergent /i.mɛʁʒ/ |
| imperfect | immergeais /i.mɛʁ.ʒɛ/ |
immergeais /i.mɛʁ.ʒɛ/ |
immergeait /i.mɛʁ.ʒɛ/ |
immergions /i.mɛʁ.ʒjɔ̃/ |
immergiez /i.mɛʁ.ʒje/ |
immergeaient /i.mɛʁ.ʒɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | immergeai /i.mɛʁ.ʒe/ |
immergeas /i.mɛʁ.ʒa/ |
immergea /i.mɛʁ.ʒa/ |
immergeâmes /i.mɛʁ.ʒam/ |
immergeâtes /i.mɛʁ.ʒat/ |
immergèrent /i.mɛʁ.ʒɛʁ/ | |
| future | immergerai /i.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁe/ |
immergeras /i.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁa/ |
immergera /i.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁa/ |
immergerons /i.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/ |
immergerez /i.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁe/ |
immergeront /i.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | immergerais /i.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/ |
immergerais /i.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/ |
immergerait /i.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/ |
immergerions /i.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
immergeriez /i.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁje/ |
immergeraient /i.mɛʁ.ʒə.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 | immerge /i.mɛʁʒ/ |
immerges /i.mɛʁʒ/ |
immerge /i.mɛʁʒ/ |
immergions /i.mɛʁ.ʒjɔ̃/ |
immergiez /i.mɛʁ.ʒje/ |
immergent /i.mɛʁʒ/ |
| imperfect2 | immergeasse /i.mɛʁ.ʒas/ |
immergeasses /i.mɛʁ.ʒas/ |
immergeât /i.mɛʁ.ʒa/ |
immergeassions /i.mɛʁ.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
immergeassiez /i.mɛʁ.ʒa.sje/ |
immergeassent /i.mɛʁ.ʒas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | immerge /i.mɛʁʒ/ |
— | immergeons /i.mɛʁ.ʒɔ̃/ |
immergez /i.mɛʁ.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
- immerseur
- immersion
Further reading
- “immerger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012