partager
French
editEtymology
editFrom partage + -er. Displaced partir in the sense of "to share, to divide".
Pronunciation
editVerb
editpartager
- to share
- Nous allons partager les bénéfices ― We are going to share the benefits
- Le Canada entretient une relation de premier plan avec les États-Unis, pays avec lequel il partage la plus longue frontière non défendue du monde, frontière où les échanges économiques transfrontaliers sont parmi les plus importants du globe.
- Canada maintains a high-profile relationship with the United States, a country with which it shares the longest undefended border in the world, a border where the cross-border economic exchanges are among the most important on the globe.
- to divide up
- Ils partagèrent la succession en deux ― They divided the estate in two
- to divide
- Les questions de la guerre et de la paix partageront le pays ― Issues of war and peace will divide the country.
- to share out
- Je partageai les provisions avec tout le monde ― I shared the provisions with everyone.
Conjugation
editThis is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written partage- 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 partager (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | partager | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | partageant /paʁ.ta.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | partagé /paʁ.ta.ʒe/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | partage /paʁ.taʒ/ |
partages /paʁ.taʒ/ |
partage /paʁ.taʒ/ |
partageons /paʁ.ta.ʒɔ̃/ |
partagez /paʁ.ta.ʒe/ |
partagent /paʁ.taʒ/ |
imperfect | partageais /paʁ.ta.ʒɛ/ |
partageais /paʁ.ta.ʒɛ/ |
partageait /paʁ.ta.ʒɛ/ |
partagions /paʁ.ta.ʒjɔ̃/ |
partagiez /paʁ.ta.ʒje/ |
partageaient /paʁ.ta.ʒɛ/ | |
past historic2 | partageai /paʁ.ta.ʒe/ |
partageas /paʁ.ta.ʒa/ |
partagea /paʁ.ta.ʒa/ |
partageâmes /paʁ.ta.ʒam/ |
partageâtes /paʁ.ta.ʒat/ |
partagèrent /paʁ.ta.ʒɛʁ/ | |
future | partagerai /paʁ.taʒ.ʁe/ |
partageras /paʁ.taʒ.ʁa/ |
partagera /paʁ.taʒ.ʁa/ |
partagerons /paʁ.taʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
partagerez /paʁ.taʒ.ʁe/ |
partageront /paʁ.taʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | partagerais /paʁ.taʒ.ʁɛ/ |
partagerais /paʁ.taʒ.ʁɛ/ |
partagerait /paʁ.taʒ.ʁɛ/ |
partagerions /paʁ.ta.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
partageriez /paʁ.ta.ʒə.ʁje/ |
partageraient /paʁ.taʒ.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 | partage /paʁ.taʒ/ |
partages /paʁ.taʒ/ |
partage /paʁ.taʒ/ |
partagions /paʁ.ta.ʒjɔ̃/ |
partagiez /paʁ.ta.ʒje/ |
partagent /paʁ.taʒ/ |
imperfect2 | partageasse /paʁ.ta.ʒas/ |
partageasses /paʁ.ta.ʒas/ |
partageât /paʁ.ta.ʒa/ |
partageassions /paʁ.ta.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
partageassiez /paʁ.ta.ʒa.sje/ |
partageassent /paʁ.ta.ʒas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | partage /paʁ.taʒ/ |
— | partageons /paʁ.ta.ʒɔ̃/ |
partagez /paʁ.ta.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). |
Further reading
edit- “partager”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.