attiger

French

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Verb

attiger

1. synonym of exagérer

Conjugation

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

infinitive	simple	attiger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	attigeant /a.ti.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		attigé /a.ti.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	attige /a.tiʒ/	attiges /a.tiʒ/	attige /a.tiʒ/	attigeons /a.ti.ʒɔ̃/	attigez /a.ti.ʒe/	attigent /a.tiʒ/
	imperfect	attigeais /a.ti.ʒɛ/	attigeais /a.ti.ʒɛ/	attigeait /a.ti.ʒɛ/	attigions /a.ti.ʒjɔ̃/	attigiez /a.ti.ʒje/	attigeaient /a.ti.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	attigeai /a.ti.ʒe/	attigeas /a.ti.ʒa/	attigea /a.ti.ʒa/	attigeâmes /a.ti.ʒam/	attigeâtes /a.ti.ʒat/	attigèrent /a.ti.ʒɛʁ/
	future	attigerai /a.tiʒ.ʁe/	attigeras /a.tiʒ.ʁa/	attigera /a.tiʒ.ʁa/	attigerons /a.tiʒ.ʁɔ̃/	attigerez /a.tiʒ.ʁe/	attigeront /a.tiʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	attigerais /a.tiʒ.ʁɛ/	attigerais /a.tiʒ.ʁɛ/	attigerait /a.tiʒ.ʁɛ/	attigerions /a.ti.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	attigeriez /a.ti.ʒə.ʁje/	attigeraient /a.tiʒ.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	attige /a.tiʒ/	attiges /a.tiʒ/	attige /a.tiʒ/	attigions /a.ti.ʒjɔ̃/	attigiez /a.ti.ʒje/	attigent /a.tiʒ/
	imperfect2	attigeasse /a.ti.ʒas/	attigeasses /a.ti.ʒas/	attigeât /a.ti.ʒa/	attigeassions /a.ti.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	attigeassiez /a.ti.ʒa.sje/	attigeassent /a.ti.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	attige /a.tiʒ/	—	attigeons /a.ti.ʒɔ̃/	attigez /a.ti.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).

Further reading

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