submerger
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
submerger (plural submergers)
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin submergere.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
submerger
- to submerge
- Ce navire a été submergé.
- The ship sank.
- to engulf in or with something
- Je suis submergé de travail.
- I'm snowed under with work.
Conjugation edit
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written submerge- 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 submerger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | submerger | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | submergeant /syb.mɛʁ.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | submergé /syb.mɛʁ.ʒe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | submerge /syb.mɛʁʒ/ |
submerges /syb.mɛʁʒ/ |
submerge /syb.mɛʁʒ/ |
submergeons /syb.mɛʁ.ʒɔ̃/ |
submergez /syb.mɛʁ.ʒe/ |
submergent /syb.mɛʁʒ/ |
| imperfect | submergeais /syb.mɛʁ.ʒɛ/ |
submergeais /syb.mɛʁ.ʒɛ/ |
submergeait /syb.mɛʁ.ʒɛ/ |
submergions /syb.mɛʁ.ʒjɔ̃/ |
submergiez /syb.mɛʁ.ʒje/ |
submergeaient /syb.mɛʁ.ʒɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | submergeai /syb.mɛʁ.ʒe/ |
submergeas /syb.mɛʁ.ʒa/ |
submergea /syb.mɛʁ.ʒa/ |
submergeâmes /syb.mɛʁ.ʒam/ |
submergeâtes /syb.mɛʁ.ʒat/ |
submergèrent /syb.mɛʁ.ʒɛʁ/ | |
| future | submergerai /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁe/ |
submergeras /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁa/ |
submergera /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁa/ |
submergerons /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/ |
submergerez /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁe/ |
submergeront /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | submergerais /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/ |
submergerais /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/ |
submergerait /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/ |
submergerions /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
submergeriez /syb.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁje/ |
submergeraient /syb.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 | submerge /syb.mɛʁʒ/ |
submerges /syb.mɛʁʒ/ |
submerge /syb.mɛʁʒ/ |
submergions /syb.mɛʁ.ʒjɔ̃/ |
submergiez /syb.mɛʁ.ʒje/ |
submergent /syb.mɛʁʒ/ |
| imperfect2 | submergeasse /syb.mɛʁ.ʒas/ |
submergeasses /syb.mɛʁ.ʒas/ |
submergeât /syb.mɛʁ.ʒa/ |
submergeassions /syb.mɛʁ.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
submergeassiez /syb.mɛʁ.ʒa.sje/ |
submergeassent /syb.mɛʁ.ʒas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | submerge /syb.mɛʁʒ/ |
— | submergeons /syb.mɛʁ.ʒɔ̃/ |
submergez /syb.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). | |||||||
Synonyms edit
submerger has most of the time a passive voice, active and transitive synonym is immerger.
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “submerger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.