émerger

See also: emerger

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin emergere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.mɛʁ.ʒe/

• Audio:

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Verb

émerger

1. to arrive at the top; to move upwards
2. emerge (to come into view)
3. (colloquial) to wake up

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written émerge- 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 émerger (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	émerger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	émergeant /e.mɛʁ.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		émergé /e.mɛʁ.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	émerge /e.mɛʁʒ/	émerges /e.mɛʁʒ/	émerge /e.mɛʁʒ/	émergeons /e.mɛʁ.ʒɔ̃/	émergez /e.mɛʁ.ʒe/	émergent /e.mɛʁʒ/
	imperfect	émergeais /e.mɛʁ.ʒɛ/	émergeais /e.mɛʁ.ʒɛ/	émergeait /e.mɛʁ.ʒɛ/	émergions /e.mɛʁ.ʒjɔ̃/	émergiez /e.mɛʁ.ʒje/	émergeaient /e.mɛʁ.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	émergeai /e.mɛʁ.ʒe/	émergeas /e.mɛʁ.ʒa/	émergea /e.mɛʁ.ʒa/	émergeâmes /e.mɛʁ.ʒam/	émergeâtes /e.mɛʁ.ʒat/	émergèrent /e.mɛʁ.ʒɛʁ/
	future	émergerai /e.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁe/	émergeras /e.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁa/	émergera /e.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁa/	émergerons /e.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/	émergerez /e.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁe/	émergeront /e.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	émergerais /e.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	émergerais /e.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	émergerait /e.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	émergerions /e.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	émergeriez /e.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁje/	émergeraient /e.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	émerge /e.mɛʁʒ/	émerges /e.mɛʁʒ/	émerge /e.mɛʁʒ/	émergions /e.mɛʁ.ʒjɔ̃/	émergiez /e.mɛʁ.ʒje/	émergent /e.mɛʁʒ/
	imperfect2	émergeasse /e.mɛʁ.ʒas/	émergeasses /e.mɛʁ.ʒas/	émergeât /e.mɛʁ.ʒa/	émergeassions /e.mɛʁ.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	émergeassiez /e.mɛʁ.ʒa.sje/	émergeassent /e.mɛʁ.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	émerge /e.mɛʁʒ/	—	émergeons /e.mɛʁ.ʒɔ̃/	émergez /e.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• partie émergée de l’iceberg

Related terms

• émergence

Further reading

• “émerger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• égermer