figer

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French fegier, from Vulgar Latin *feticāre, ultimately from Latin ficatum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.ʒe/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

figer

1. to freeze
2. to fix
3. to congeal; to thicken; to clot
4. (figuratively) to scare, frighten

Conjugation

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

infinitive	simple	figer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	figeant /fi.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		figé /fi.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	fige /fiʒ/	figes /fiʒ/	fige /fiʒ/	figeons /fi.ʒɔ̃/	figez /fi.ʒe/	figent /fiʒ/
	imperfect	figeais /fi.ʒɛ/	figeais /fi.ʒɛ/	figeait /fi.ʒɛ/	figions /fi.ʒjɔ̃/	figiez /fi.ʒje/	figeaient /fi.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	figeai /fi.ʒe/	figeas /fi.ʒa/	figea /fi.ʒa/	figeâmes /fi.ʒam/	figeâtes /fi.ʒat/	figèrent /fi.ʒɛʁ/
	future	figerai /fiʒ.ʁe/	figeras /fiʒ.ʁa/	figera /fiʒ.ʁa/	figerons /fiʒ.ʁɔ̃/	figerez /fiʒ.ʁe/	figeront /fiʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	figerais /fiʒ.ʁɛ/	figerais /fiʒ.ʁɛ/	figerait /fiʒ.ʁɛ/	figerions /fi.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	figeriez /fi.ʒə.ʁje/	figeraient /fiʒ.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	fige /fiʒ/	figes /fiʒ/	fige /fiʒ/	figions /fi.ʒjɔ̃/	figiez /fi.ʒje/	figent /fiʒ/
	imperfect2	figeasse /fi.ʒas/	figeasses /fi.ʒas/	figeât /fi.ʒa/	figeassions /fi.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	figeassiez /fi.ʒa.sje/	figeassent /fi.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	fige /fiʒ/	—	figeons /fi.ʒɔ̃/	figez /fi.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

• figé
• figement
• locution figée
• se figer

 

References

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

Anagrams

• grief

Galician

Verb

figer

1. (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular future subjunctive of fazer

Middle English

Alternative forms

• fier, figre, fygeer

Etymology

From Old French figier, fiier, from Latin fīcārius (modern French figuier is remodelled after French figue).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiˈɡeːr(ə)/, /ˈfiɡər(ə)/, /ˈfeːr(ə)/

Noun

figer (plural fygers)

1. A fig tree (a tree of the genus Ficus)

References

• “figēr, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-3.