French edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old French abregier, itself from Late Latin abbreviāre. Doublet of abrévier, a (now obsolete) borrowing. See also abréviation.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /a.bʁe.ʒe/
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Verb edit

abréger

  1. to shorten in duration
  2. to shorten (in textual length) or summarize, to abridge
  3. to abbreviate
    • 1991, L'Encyclopédie Grolier, volume 1, A-Asc, →ISBN, s.v. "abréviation":
      Les principales façon d’abréger les mots étaient connus dans le monde latin []
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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').

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