agréger

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aggregāre (“to flock together”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡʁe.ʒe/

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Verb

agréger

1. (reflexive) to form into a greater entity, to aggregate
2. (reflexive) to join [with à]

Conjugation

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 agréger (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	agréger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	agrégeant /a.ɡʁe.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		agrégé /a.ɡʁe.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	agrège /a.ɡʁɛʒ/	agrèges /a.ɡʁɛʒ/	agrège /a.ɡʁɛʒ/	agrégeons /a.ɡʁe.ʒɔ̃/	agrégez /a.ɡʁe.ʒe/	agrègent /a.ɡʁɛʒ/
	imperfect	agrégeais /a.ɡʁe.ʒɛ/	agrégeais /a.ɡʁe.ʒɛ/	agrégeait /a.ɡʁe.ʒɛ/	agrégions /a.ɡʁe.ʒjɔ̃/	agrégiez /a.ɡʁe.ʒje/	agrégeaient /a.ɡʁe.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	agrégeai /a.ɡʁe.ʒe/	agrégeas /a.ɡʁe.ʒa/	agrégea /a.ɡʁe.ʒa/	agrégeâmes /a.ɡʁe.ʒam/	agrégeâtes /a.ɡʁe.ʒat/	agrégèrent /a.ɡʁe.ʒɛʁ/
	future	agrégerai or agrègerai /a.ɡʁɛʒ.ʁe/	agrégeras or agrègeras /a.ɡʁɛʒ.ʁa/	agrégera or agrègera /a.ɡʁɛʒ.ʁa/	agrégerons or agrègerons /a.ɡʁɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/	agrégerez or agrègerez /a.ɡʁɛʒ.ʁe/	agrégeront or agrègeront /a.ɡʁɛʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	agrégerais or agrègerais /a.ɡʁɛʒ.ʁɛ/	agrégerais or agrègerais /a.ɡʁɛʒ.ʁɛ/	agrégerait or agrègerait /a.ɡʁɛʒ.ʁɛ/	agrégerions or agrègerions /a.ɡʁɛ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.ɡʁe.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	agrégeriez or agrègeriez /a.ɡʁɛ.ʒə.ʁje/ or /a.ɡʁe.ʒə.ʁje/	agrégeraient or agrègeraient /a.ɡʁɛʒ.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	agrège /a.ɡʁɛʒ/	agrèges /a.ɡʁɛʒ/	agrège /a.ɡʁɛʒ/	agrégions /a.ɡʁe.ʒjɔ̃/	agrégiez /a.ɡʁe.ʒje/	agrègent /a.ɡʁɛʒ/
	imperfect2	agrégeasse /a.ɡʁe.ʒas/	agrégeasses /a.ɡʁe.ʒas/	agrégeât /a.ɡʁe.ʒa/	agrégeassions /a.ɡʁe.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	agrégeassiez /a.ɡʁe.ʒa.sje/	agrégeassent /a.ɡʁe.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	agrège /a.ɡʁɛʒ/	—	agrégeons /a.ɡʁe.ʒɔ̃/	agrégez /a.ɡʁe.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

• agrégat
• agrégation

Related terms

• congrégation
• grégaire

Further reading

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