départager
French
Verb
départager
- (transitive) to decide between, to select from
- (transitive) To cast the deciding vote
- (transitive) to whittle down
- (reflexive, sports) to find a winner
- Les deux équipes n'ont pas pu se départager. Score final : 28 à 28.
- The two teams came to a stalemate. Final score: 28-28
- Les deux équipes n'ont pas pu se départager. Score final : 28 à 28.
Conjugation
- This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written départage- 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 départager (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | départager | avoir départagé | |||||
| gerund | en départageant | en ayant départagé | |||||
| present participle | départageant | ||||||
| past participle | départagé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | départage | départages | départage | départageons | départagez | départagent |
| imperfect | départageais | départageais | départageait | départagions | départagiez | départageaient | |
| past historic1 | départageai | départageas | départagea | départageâmes | départageâtes | départagèrent | |
| future | départagerai | départageras | départagera | départagerons | départagerez | départageront | |
| conditional | départagerais | départagerais | départagerait | départagerions | départageriez | départageraient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | départage | départages | départage | départagions | départagiez | départagent |
| imperfect1 | départageasse | départageasses | départageât | départageassions | départageassiez | départageassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | départage | — | départageons | départagez | — | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||