immerger

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin immergere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.mɛʁ.ʒe/

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Verb

immerger

1. to immerse

Conjugation

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

infinitive	simple	immerger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	immergeant /i.mɛʁ.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		immergé /i.mɛʁ.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	immerge /i.mɛʁʒ/	immerges /i.mɛʁʒ/	immerge /i.mɛʁʒ/	immergeons /i.mɛʁ.ʒɔ̃/	immergez /i.mɛʁ.ʒe/	immergent /i.mɛʁʒ/
	imperfect	immergeais /i.mɛʁ.ʒɛ/	immergeais /i.mɛʁ.ʒɛ/	immergeait /i.mɛʁ.ʒɛ/	immergions /i.mɛʁ.ʒjɔ̃/	immergiez /i.mɛʁ.ʒje/	immergeaient /i.mɛʁ.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	immergeai /i.mɛʁ.ʒe/	immergeas /i.mɛʁ.ʒa/	immergea /i.mɛʁ.ʒa/	immergeâmes /i.mɛʁ.ʒam/	immergeâtes /i.mɛʁ.ʒat/	immergèrent /i.mɛʁ.ʒɛʁ/
	future	immergerai /i.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁe/	immergeras /i.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁa/	immergera /i.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁa/	immergerons /i.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/	immergerez /i.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁe/	immergeront /i.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	immergerais /i.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	immergerais /i.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	immergerait /i.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁɛ/	immergerions /i.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	immergeriez /i.mɛʁ.ʒə.ʁje/	immergeraient /i.mɛʁ.ʒə.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	immerge /i.mɛʁʒ/	immerges /i.mɛʁʒ/	immerge /i.mɛʁʒ/	immergions /i.mɛʁ.ʒjɔ̃/	immergiez /i.mɛʁ.ʒje/	immergent /i.mɛʁʒ/
	imperfect2	immergeasse /i.mɛʁ.ʒas/	immergeasses /i.mɛʁ.ʒas/	immergeât /i.mɛʁ.ʒa/	immergeassions /i.mɛʁ.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	immergeassiez /i.mɛʁ.ʒa.sje/	immergeassent /i.mɛʁ.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	immerge /i.mɛʁʒ/	—	immergeons /i.mɛʁ.ʒɔ̃/	immergez /i.mɛʁ.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).

Related terms

• immerseur
• immersion

Further reading

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