siéger
See also: Sieger
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
siéger
- (transitive, administration) to sit (hold a seat)
- (law, government) to sit
- to be located; lie
Conjugation edit
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 siéger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | siéger | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | siégeant /sje.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | siégé /sje.ʒe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | siège /sjɛʒ/ |
sièges /sjɛʒ/ |
siège /sjɛʒ/ |
siégeons /sje.ʒɔ̃/ |
siégez /sje.ʒe/ |
siègent /sjɛʒ/ |
| imperfect | siégeais /sje.ʒɛ/ |
siégeais /sje.ʒɛ/ |
siégeait /sje.ʒɛ/ |
siégions /sje.ʒjɔ̃/ |
siégiez /sje.ʒje/ |
siégeaient /sje.ʒɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | siégeai /sje.ʒe/ |
siégeas /sje.ʒa/ |
siégea /sje.ʒa/ |
siégeâmes /sje.ʒam/ |
siégeâtes /sje.ʒat/ |
siégèrent /sje.ʒɛʁ/ | |
| future | siégerai or siègerai /sjɛʒ.ʁe/ |
siégeras or siègeras /sjɛʒ.ʁa/ |
siégera or siègera /sjɛʒ.ʁa/ |
siégerons or siègerons /sjɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
siégerez or siègerez /sjɛʒ.ʁe/ |
siégeront or siègeront /sjɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | siégerais or siègerais /sjɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
siégerais or siègerais /sjɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
siégerait or siègerait /sjɛʒ.ʁɛ/ |
siégerions or siègerions /sjɛ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /sje.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
siégeriez or siègeriez /sjɛ.ʒə.ʁje/ or /sje.ʒə.ʁje/ |
siégeraient or siègeraient /sjɛʒ.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 | siège /sjɛʒ/ |
sièges /sjɛʒ/ |
siège /sjɛʒ/ |
siégions /sje.ʒjɔ̃/ |
siégiez /sje.ʒje/ |
siègent /sjɛʒ/ |
| imperfect2 | siégeasse /sje.ʒas/ |
siégeasses /sje.ʒas/ |
siégeât /sje.ʒa/ |
siégeassions /sje.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
siégeassiez /sje.ʒa.sje/ |
siégeassent /sje.ʒas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | siège /sjɛʒ/ |
— | siégeons /sje.ʒɔ̃/ |
siégez /sje.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). | |||||||
Further reading edit
- “siéger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.